Sentences with phrase «than some actors do»

And as cliché as this sounds, he does more in a single breath than some actors do with two pages of dialogue.

Amanda Seyfried «s covered more genres in the few of years than some actors do in their entire careers.

Not exact matches

«I've found that when I've done my best work as an actor it was only after I pushed myself to be better than I ever thought I could be.

Calliet points to a photo shoot Boyega did around Thanksgiving last year for The Hollywood Reporter that shows off the actor looking «leaner and ripper» than he did in the movie.

While Black Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the movie.

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.»

The notion of a bureau - inspired plot is in some ways less ridiculous than the «crisis actors» theory — Hogg's dad really was in the FBI, and for all we know, he really does hate Trump — but on another level, it's even crazier.

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.

«I had to get to the point where I saw [getting married] as more than just the thing to do,» the actor said.

The notion that «the economy» is an actor in its own right, disembodied from «the change,» has led some analysts to float the strange argument that Republicans should have won more convincingly than they did.

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.

With more than 79 % of clinics in minority neighborhoods, and more than 1400 black abortions daily, these programs are doing precisely what our actor asked them to do.

But recent trends do point toward a changing wind in culture — a sense that sex and nudity and female actors in particular might be deserving of a little more respect than they've been getting over the past decade.

But I do expect any filmmaker who has access to a half dozen of the best actors working today and millions of dollars to execute his vision to give the audience something more than psychological torture for the sake of watching the audience squirm.

After all, if man is nothing more than an externally determined «actor on a stage,» the very most he can do is have the option of remembering or forgetting his «lines» (or perhaps refusing to say them).

«This year, we wanted to make our ribbon cutting special, and what better way to do that than by having actor, producer, screenwriter and partner of the new vodka brand, BiVi Vodka, Chazz Palminteri,» said Kristen Santoro, Nightclub & Bar Media Group conference and content director.

To be fair, I thought this production did a MUCH better job at balancing Broadway and Hollywood actors than these productions normally do.

To return to precarity, then: we can do more than one thing at a time as theorists and as political actors.

Helen Mirren doesn't disappoint, proving she is more than a match for Bill Nighy, who won a Best Actor award for his role as the editor in the BBC series.

It's kind of funny that I'm not even from this country and haven't lived here all that long, but it seems I know a lot more of the actors than my husband does.

I'm surrounded by incredible business women (actors, writers, designers, artists, producers, etc.) who are extremely accomplished and have significantly more notoriety than I do.

But when it comes to doing stunts in the real world, rather than animating them around actors, Stephenson seems to come unstuck in a largely unsatisfying way.

None of the supporting performances are bad, per se, it's just there isn't much for the other actors to do (which could be a byproduct of the Disaster Artist book more than anything else).

The filmmakers went into this project insisting that all the actors do their own singing, and while «crooners» like Pierce Brosnan and Colin Firth (let alone Stellan Skarsgård, who is very, very brave to have done his own singing) are not going to go down in history as much more than barely competent, star Meryl Streep, who has already proven her musical chops theatrically and previously in such films as Postcards from the Edge, is marvelous, if a bit too country - yodelish for this patently pop score.

Very Bad Things features a pretty terrific cast; while it features no real «big time» stars other than Cameron Diaz - who only achieved that status upon the release of Mary, which happened after this film was already done - it offers a very solid list of quality actors.

The jokes are nonexistent, the direction is ugly, the production value looks WAY to cheap than it needed to be, the actors didn't try, and everything that you can think of that can go wrong in a parody movie directed by Friedburg and Seltzer, will

the voice acting sucks while the voice actors from the show are there the lines they recorded sound like they are emotionless.Overall simpsons skateboarding doesn't live up to be a good tony hawk clone good simpsons game or a good game for that matter awkward and unresponsive controls near impossible challenges and the presentation which makes it seem farther from a simpsons game than its supposed to be.

The performances all around are great, and the cast does an admirable job portraying actors and other characters that The Room aficionados are more than familiar with at this point.

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.

Bateman is doing a sharper - than - average version of the sighing and dead - eyed reaction shots we've seen him do before, but the stealth MVP is McAdams, who appeared on most of our radars as an effortless comedic actor in Mean Girls, but who has rarely been called upon to do the same since.

Don't get me wrong, I don't actually blame the actor here as he has next to nothing to work with, but Christian comes across as little more than a domineering sex robot in relaxed fit jeans.

And a cast to dream of down to the smallest roles, most of the actors giving the performance of their lifetime: J.Lo is hardly recognizable as the irrelevant pop singer of recent years, doing a great job as a female cop tempted by the attracting opposites of bank robber George Clooney, who was never better than here.

I suppose you could do worse than watching really good actors take bullets for 90 minutes in a deft genre exercise, but then again, maybe you can't.

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.

Schrader, whose strict, Calvinist parents did not allow him to see films until he was eighteen, unwraps the story as though a reflection on his own upbringing, entertains a view that actors should not over-emote, that more naturalistic performances would evoke passion in the audience more than a display of firecracker exhibitionism.

Since Greg wants more than anything to be a star in Hollywood and not to wind up pumping gas in San José, he teams up with Tommy, though Tommy's drama coach back home tells him he did not have a chance to make it as an actor.

As Katja, a German woman whose bespectacled little son and Turkish husband are blown up by terrorists in Fatih Akin's In the Fade, Diane Kruger is in nearly every shot, and her wide, open face with its hollow eyes says more in silence than other actors do in lengthy perorations.

You watch it thinking: There's a reason why Tracy and Hepburn movies never hinged on therapy, and didn't feature actors whose exteriors looked a lot more exciting than their inner lives.

Scene for scene, episode for episode, there is no actor who works harder than Danes does in this show.

The actors were great, but I just didn't care and found myself checking my watch more than once.

This isn't an actor doing a flashy star turn; Cotillard focuses on the heart of the character more than her physicality, and she's all the more touching for it.

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.

Yet unlike so many of the director's previous cinematic puzzle games, Redbelt cares far less about tricking its audience than about plumbing its protagonist's psyche in a way both viscerally exciting and intensely analytical, a nifty trick that's aided by a host of uniformly sturdy but tonally divergent supporting actors (dainty Emily Mortimer, chilly Rebecca Pidgeon, hammy Rodrigo Santoro, goofy Tim Allen) who don't, at first glance, seem well - suited to coexist with each other.

i only wish those thousands went to work on movies of more substance than fighting robots... and you don't have to apologize to me, i can in fact compare «Real Steel» to «The Fast and the Frivolous» films because in essence they are one - in - the - same, simply just the flavor of the week kind of flicks that have no real pull behind them other than big name actors, CGI and a promise of action.

The single - disc DVD also includes the ten - minute «Larger Than Life: Adversaries,» with Mann and stars Johnny Depp and Christian Bale discussing their characters and their research (actors love to show off their research — did you know Depp was born about 60 miles away from Dillinger's birthplace?).

Then he broke into film, through television with Alan Clarke's The Firm, and Mike Leigh's Meantime, and with Alex Cox's Sid and Nancy, Stephen Frears's Prick Up Your Ears, and Nick Roeg's Track 29 - five widely differing parts that proved him much more than just a colourful character actor able to do a lot of accents.

There are a lot of good actors that pop up in small roles (including Helena Bonham Carter as a tough prostitute with a wooden leg that packs a punch and Barry Pepper as a crooked Army captain), but many of them don't seem to serve much purpose other than to overcomplicate things.

Don Cheadle is a much better actor than Howard, but either would have done the same for this film, not bad but not great.

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.

This heist film with a sensational cast, such as Edward Norton, Seth Green (who, ironically, was Vince and E's nemesis in Entourage) and rapper turned actor Mos Def was both a box office and critical success, doing even better than its theater run with DVD sales.