Sentences with phrase «than actors playing»

Affliction could be their (Nolte, Coburn) finest couple of hours on film; they do seem to be father and son, rather than actors playing these roles.

AVC: Because when you're doing it seriously, it seems you're playing more the part of a quote - unquote «serious actor» than an actor playing that role.

Not exact matches

When paired onscreen with actors living fully in the present — playing characters who are defined by their relationship with the lead rather than by their own complicated backstories — DiCaprio is again made to suffer.

The actor, best known for playing Luke Skywalker, was less than amused by the video Pai released last week, in which he dressed up as Santa and explained the «seven things you can still do on the Internet after net neutrality.»

And while the story is obviously bogus (although the bit about Blackstone buying up low - cost properties is real), we can see why the actor playing Mark chose to do this video; the storyline is even better than most movies nowadays.

It turns out that when we let ourselves surrender to the «Time of the Season,» we are less like the animals and flowers of the field than a) like actors playing parts in some two - bit melodrama about low - class Others, or, b) like the starry - eyed Icaruses of the first verse seeking to take one another «to the sun» and «to promised lands.»

MacLeish's contribution, other than bringing the story into the 20th century, making a great contribution to the tiny, tiny pool of American poetic drama, and winning the 1959 Pulitzer with it, is quite a bit of additional commentary by his God and Satan characters, a pair of washed - up actors who observe the Job story being played on a stage, and occasionally take part in it.

People who try to go back and do what was done before (like churches to try to return to the «early church days»), are like actors who, when they get to the end of act 4 in they play, rather than start in on improvising act 5, decide that the best thing to do is just repeat act 4.

When the play was revived on Broadway in 1995 by Tony Randall's National Actors Theater, Randall — citing recent renewed efforts by the Tennessee state legislature to restrict the teaching of evolution — asserted that the play is «much more timely today than when it was written.»

Jackie Chan delights but the kid felt much younger than previous actors playing the role, which was emphasized by him often watching Spongebob Squarepants in Chinese.

On the Republican side, there's real estate executive Paul Massey Jr., who has spent more money ($ 2 million) than he has raised ($ 1.6 million); Michel Faulkner, who played one season as a defensive lineman for the Jets and is now the pastor of a small Baptist church in Harlem; and Darren Dione Aquino, an actor and an activist for the rights of the disabled.

Dicker is an Albany actor rather than just an observer, for sure, and to say that he plays favorites is an understatement.

The two characters and the actors who play them are much better balanced than Natalie Portman and Aston Kutcher are in Strings.

Because we need more of a story than Hugh being a bad boy, Charlie, for reasons of financial convenience, gets stuck with Max, who is played by Dakota Goyo without that annoying smugness of child actors, the sort that says, «Hey, I'm only 10, but I'm already more successful than you!»

There's also a bit of romance — Sam and Carly seem to be for real [and Huntington - Whitely, while no Angelina Jolie, is a much better actor than Mega fox — again, not that hard to achieve], and the feelings between Ron and Judy Witwicky, though played mostly for laughs, is pretty believable.

That alone would be reason to get excited, and Coogler makes good on the landmark project's potential by featuring a predominantly black ensemble, casting some of the best young actors around — from Chadwick Boseman (who proved his dramatic chops playing James Brown, Jackie Robinson, and Thurgood Marshall in recent years) to Michael B. Jordan (even more buff, and twice as charismatic, than he appeared in the director's two previous features, «Fruitvale Station» and «Creed»)-- as well as such legends as Forest Whitaker and Angela Bassett.

There are few, if any, young actors other than her who could play the type of strong, capable, insightful heroine embodied by Katniss.

Before he was a made - for - TV wacko, Gary Busey was a pretty fine actor — and never better than when he played the title role in 1978's «The Buddy Holly Story,» a biopic of the «50s rock star whose life ended early.

If you were to choose an actor to play an imperious, severe, and often malicious character, you could find no one better than the legendary Charles Laughton.

With the most close - up shot I have ever seen in a movie the lead character played by Noa Kooler shows so much emotions with her mouth and eyes than most actors with their entire body.

Also impressive is director Wenders» use of his and Lisa Rinzler's shoots in Assisi, black - and - white, deliberately faded and silent film, showing an actor playing St. Francis who at the key point in his life heard God tell him to restore a dilapidated church — which I believe he did thinking that God's will is more important than his father's rage at the saint's alleged throwing away his money.

And while Farrell is admittedly quite good as the smooth, charismatic Jerry, Yelchin is simply unable to become the compelling protagonist that the narrative clearly requires - with the actor's less - than - engrossing performance matched by an underwhelmingly bland supporting cast (eg Toni Collette, playing Charley's concerned mother, is hopelessly wasted here).

The plot plays out like a very bad Silver Age comic, with a cringeworthy heavy - handed «Captain Planet» - esque anti-nuclear weapon message, beyond cheesy plot consisting of multiple meaningless subplots, mediocre effects - driven action sequences that induce laughter rather than suspense, and actors who seem more disinterested than the next.

Banderas» charming, often comic performance, a cute one by child actor Adrian Alonso as Zorro's son and pint - sized counterpart, an amusing one by Rufus Sewell, who plays his villainous role as a Hispanic Christopher Walken, some imaginative PG - rated methods of disposing of the bad guys and a number of rather audacious parallels to contemporary politics and warfare place this clearly in the «guilty pleasure» category; like the original, it's notably longer than it has any right to be (perhaps Steven Spielberg executive producing both of them is a factor?)

With the possible exceptions of fellow character players Fritz Feld and Gino Corrado, German - born actor Sig Arno played more waiters and maitre d's than any other film actor.

I thought Jon was good, but he probably is a btter writer than an actor, although he played his part well.

Humphrey Bogart (as Rigby's partner) plays a larger role than the other noir - era actors.

There were a lot of cameos in the movie of actors that played in both the Hobbit and Lord of the RIngs movies, but they come and go and really add nothing to the story other than to give the Tolkien fanboys out there nerd boners and merge the two franchises together.

This aesthetic permeates every aspect of Foul Play — enemies are not monsters but extras and actors in costume; sets come and go as they would in a real stage production; and props and larger - than - thespian beasts are constructed from wood and rope.

Though this neo-Western may sound like every other Statham vehicle on the surface, «Homefront» plays more like a gritty thriller than one of the actor's typical action movies.

British theatre actress Andrea Riseborough, who plays Riggan's co-star also avoids critical reviews «because [she finds] them debilitating, not because [she doesn't] respect them» Riseborough added that there's a certain element of fear when it comes to actors encountering critics, rather than hostility, especially in the world of theatre.

Plenty of actors have more than one film at Toronto, but this year Denis Villeneuve joins the elite group of directors to have two films play the festival.

In addition to the three - day «Citizen Kane» workshop, I did a Q&A with the actor Jason Patric after a screening of James Foley's «After Dark, My Sweet» (1990), a modern film noir that made both of the Best Ten lists on «Siskel & Ebert,» but sank so quickly at the box office that it never played Chicago and grossed less than $ 2 million.

Youngster Liam James holds his own against some great actors as the perpetually awkward wallflower, while Steve Carell plays against type in a role that proves he may be a stronger dramatic actor than a comedian.

Though he probably could have found someone better than Jamie Foxx for the title role (especially with rumors of Idris Elba and Michael K. Williams circling the part), the actor does a solid job playing Django, even if he fails to make him as memorable as Tarantino's more iconic protagonists.

Likewise, Danny Huston — not my favorite actor by any stretch of the imagination — is a lot stronger here than in some of his previous films (like Birth), playing Justin's co-worker who has his own sleazy interests in Tessa, something she uses to get information from him about the British government's dealings in Africa.

Morgan Freeman's mollycoddled and on meds, suffering the indignity of being infantlised by an idiot son, Kevin Kline's got a great wife but a boring life and is subsequently sexually dysfunctional and depressed, Robert De Niro's a widower whose only human contact is a soup making neighbour, while Michael Douglas, in a set up that must have presented the actor with the greatest challenge of his career, plays a rich old pervert who's eschewed commitment most of his adult life but is now about to settle for a woman less than half his age.

«I just want to play something that has more than one level going on, that isn't one - note and is interesting to me as an actor,» she says.

In Tootsie, directed by Sydney Pollack, Hoffman plays Michael Dorsey, an actor struggling more because of his difficult reputation than lack of talent.

Though Rinsch deserves some credit for convincing a major studio to green light a Keanu Reeves vehicle with Japanese screen veteran Hiroyuki Sanada, and not Reeves, playing the main lead, the actor's presence ultimately proves to be more of a distraction than an advantage.

Writers and directors Jim Rash and Nat Faxon have managed to obtain a group of wildly talented actors who manage to hold the film afloat but decided to play it safe and deliver us the expected beats rather than attempting something new.

Lonely soccer moms who have nothing better to do than daydream about Butler may enjoy the film, but for as many terrible rom - coms as the actor has starred in, «Playing for Keeps» is quite possibly the worst.

Nothing could be more uncomfortable than «friendly» soldiers played by actors you already love, attempting to soothe traumatized children whose parents they've just killed.

He was nearly 20 years younger than his leading lady, and the same age then as Michael Cera is today, but in a film where few of the actors were playing their actual age, he was clearly the man for the role.

Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999) Paul Thomas Anderson's magnum opus follows multiple plotlines, while still deeply developing each of the film's many principle characters — played more than ably by some of the decade's greatest actors — Julianne Moore, William H. Macy, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jason Robards and Alfred Molina, to name but half.

Leigh, Thompson, and Rodriguez are given very specific, very surface traits to play with and each actor does a more than admirable job with them.

It's pretty sad when, out of two actors playing the same person (albeit at different ages), the one with much less experience and no expectations does a better job than the star, who wants his credibility to hinge on this film.

At times, In the Bedroom moves slightly slowly, but watching the actors play off each other more than makes up for this.

Jim Carrey made a career out of playing silly characters like Ace Ventura and The Mask, but the actor has demonstrated in the past that he has a lot more to him than just a funny bone.

Anthony Head is the veteran actor, although he is given little more to do than play the comedy stuffy English librarian.