Sentences with phrase «turn as alien»

Fassbender's turn as Alien: Covenant's android clones David and Walter is the latest example of a Hollywood actor putting in an impressive double - shift

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«This tragedy could have been prevented if San Francisco had simply turned the alien over to ICE as we requested, instead of releasing him back onto the streets,» ICE Director Thomas Homan said in a statement on Thursday.

Turns out those human aliens don't love Earth very much, as the off - world Settlement Defense Front decides to wage war against the third rock from the sun.

As such, it is at least a partially alien criterion by which to appreciate biblical traditions, since their understanding of divine power is rather different, a subject we shall turn to in the next chapter.

More commonly and subtly, a mental disorder may so distort an individual's beliefs that he may think he is doing right when in fact an act is terribly wrong - as, for example, when a person has the delusion that his wife has literally turned into a zombie and that shooting her is the only way to protect himself from being eaten alive, or an inpatient attacks the attendants on his ward when they come to take him to an appointment because he believes they are alien beings sent to kill him.

Indeed (to turn to the second question) it has been proposed that the story of Ruth came into existence chiefly as a genealogical narrative — to preserve or comment upon the ancestry of King David: Ruth is David's great - grandmother (4:17; it is the fuller genealogical table of 4:18 - 22 that appears alien and secondary to the original story).

Some of their activists on social media have in fact threatened to lynch persons they unilaterally declare as «aliens» should they turn out to vote.

If you're a brittle star, the answer turns out to be quite well (for an echinoderm)-- although it's a little complicated.The blunt - spined brittle star (Ophiocoma echinata) looks like a claymation creature from an alien horror movie as it moves its disk - like body along the sea floor with unexpected agility.

As radio telescopes turned a hopeful ear to the stars and optical telescopes kept their eyes peeled for an illuminated alien pulse, a cavalry of citizens armed with personal computers sorted through jumbles of data.

The Faculty (1998), a teen thriller that cast Hayek as a teacher who turns into an alien, was an exception, and Kevin Smith's Dogma (1999), which featured her as a celestial muse, was fairly successful with critics and audiences.

However, when electromagnetic pulses of lightning strike the area, the strange event turns out to be the beginning of an alien invasion, and Ferrier must now protect his children as they seek refuge.

It makes a geek sorta wan na cry to see how Hollywood takes something as pure and lovely and necessary as developing repetitive stress injuries and / or losing sleep in order to kill cute cartoonish nasty alien Nazi undead Mongol Education Advisors and turns it into something so deadly dull that playing your little sister's Barbie Goes Shopping!

Jeunet, the imaginative French director behind such films as Amélie, Micmacs, and The City of Lost Children, turns to Reif Larsen's novel The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet as the source for only his second English - language feature (the first being Alien: Resurrection) and first shot in 3D.

As an uberfan of the so - bad - it's - good masterpiece The Room and a solid admirer of The Disaster Artist, The Room co-star Greg Sestero's tell - all book about the making of mysterious vampiric figure Tommy Wiseau's «Tennessee Williams style melodrama as told by an alien who has apparently never seen normal human beings interact» drama - turned - dark - comedy - after - initial - audience - reactions - full - of - howling - laughter, I was a bit reserved in my excitement when I found out that James Franco was going to direct the film adaptation, as well as portraying Wiseau himselAs an uberfan of the so - bad - it's - good masterpiece The Room and a solid admirer of The Disaster Artist, The Room co-star Greg Sestero's tell - all book about the making of mysterious vampiric figure Tommy Wiseau's «Tennessee Williams style melodrama as told by an alien who has apparently never seen normal human beings interact» drama - turned - dark - comedy - after - initial - audience - reactions - full - of - howling - laughter, I was a bit reserved in my excitement when I found out that James Franco was going to direct the film adaptation, as well as portraying Wiseau himselas told by an alien who has apparently never seen normal human beings interact» drama - turned - dark - comedy - after - initial - audience - reactions - full - of - howling - laughter, I was a bit reserved in my excitement when I found out that James Franco was going to direct the film adaptation, as well as portraying Wiseau himselas well as portraying Wiseau himselas portraying Wiseau himself.

The alien, known as Laura (Scarlett Johansson), slips into human skin, adopts an English accent, and cruises Glasgow picking up men and enticing them into a darkened building, where the world turns black and white — inky black and milky white.

In these films, the world has usually turned against humanity in some way — a zombie apocalypse, an alien invasion, or simply the indomitability of nature itself — and the relative resourcefulness of characters who were previously reliant on now - absent tools or technologies provide the major dramatic beats as outside forces close in, driving these characters into action.

Here's a supplementary list of ten performances: Betty Buckley, articulate as a psychotherapist, and the protean James McAvoy playing against her in Split; Harris Dickinson, implosive with self - loathing in Beach Rats; two turns by Michael Fassbender, as the smarmy villains of Song to Song and Alien: Covenant; Milla Jovovich's valedictory sprint through Resident Evil: The Final Chapter; Barry Keoghan as a teenage sprite barely veiling his hostility in The Killing of a Sacred Deer; Keanu Reeves, put through his paces again in John Wick: Chapter 2; Lady Bird's callous, precocious, and heartbreaking Saoirse Ronan; newcomer Millicent Simmonds and her silent movie acting in Wonderstruck; octagenarian Lois Smith playing her age as Marjorie of Marjorie Prime; and Adrian Titieni, slouching and gloomy as a bad dad in Graduation.

She was the final surviving human in Prometheus, but in a surprise turn of events, director Ridley Scott has revealed that we will not now be picking up the story of Elizabeth Shaw, as played by Noomi Rapace, in Alien: Covenant after all.

Based on Jack Finney's classic sci - fi novel «Invasion of the Body Snatchers», the film emphasises the tensions and lack of trust in the Malone family as an alien plot to turn all humans into emotionless, unfeeling «pod people» unfolds around them.

Pretty quickly, the film turns into a horror show, with the airborne, microscopic spores from a plant on the planet serving as the way those killer aliens end up in their human hosts (Scott offers a microscope - level shot of the infection entering a crewmember's body through his ear canal, which is simultaneously frightening and deviously amusing).

The promotional materials for Thor: Ragnarok continue to give us pretty much everything we could want from a superhero movie about alien space - Norse gods duking it out: Jeff Goldblum being hammy, Hulk punching giant wolves and fire giants, and Chris Hemsworth affably goofing his way through another turn as the...

It doesn't take long before things turn into a shit storm of badass looking violence as everything begins to explode and zombie / aliens start wreaking havoc on the town.

Actor - turned - screenwriter Hampton Fancher came next, as he built out the screen story by adding its noir elements; filmmaker Ridley Scott (Alien) contributed his staggering cinematic vision for a dystopian near - future and ever deeper layers of meaning, aided by late - coming screenwriter David Webb Peoples.

When Jonesy has an accident of startling suddenness, that serves as the catalyst for a trip to the woods, where the hunters turn into the hunted as alien beings attack.

Bowing at Venice Film Festival, Spring Breakers was a candy - colored trip scored by Skrillex and co-starring Selena Gomez that divided critics, but everybody seemed to agree that Franco's turn as the perverted, grill - wearing dealer Alien was nothing short of spectacular.

This starts out as your typical small town murder mystery involving various shady characters, but then turns into some crazy alien horror half - way through (the trailer) with some freaky shots.

Apparently, neither can Williamson nor Rodriguez, as Janssen's Miss Burke and most of the characters undergo a 180 - degree turn as a mysterious — perhaps alien — force corrupts the school faculty and, before long, the students themselves.

Actor turned writer - director Thomas Dekker got his film start in 1995 as the only Aryan alien child in John Carpenter's Village of the Damned to feel empathy.

Beguiling and beseeching by turns, Ava is as empathetic as she is utterly alien, and Vikander underplays these contradictions with all the insidiousness they require to avoid lapsing into yet another iteration of woman - as - object on screen.

But she also has a wide range as a performer, equally known for her turns in out - there movies like Jonathan Glazer's alien film Under the Skin or aughts indie milestones like Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation.

Similarly on top of their game is the top - flight ensemble, led by Rapace, making a compelling heroine of Ripley - circa - original - Alien mix of vulnerability, smarts, and reserves of strength; Charlize Theron gives a second solid turn in as many weeks with a different type of wicked queen — the icy on - board exec for the bankrolling corporation; and Fassbender damn well steals the whole show as the Peter O'Toole - as - T.

Devotees of the «Witch Mountain» franchise may also be leavened to see Kim Richards and Ike Eisenmann, the alien kids from the 1975 original, face their successors in cameo turns as a roadhouse waitress and a sheriff.

Se7en (1995), which turned David Fincher from that guy who screwed up the Alien series to a new breed of popular auteur, came out around the same time as The Usual Suspects.

Set in the future during a war between Earth and an alien race, Tom Cruise stars as a public relations officer that gets turned into a straight up warrior through reliving the same day's worth of training and battle over and over and over again.

But what starts out with a bit of a freakshow vibe, bringing their household's bizarre rituals (their familial Halloween rite has to be seen to be believed) and alien assumptions to light, turns into a touching real - world drama, as they mature, rebel, escape their dictatorial father, emerge into the world, and reveal themselves as surprisingly well - adjusted and capable.

Studios would have welcomed yet another Star Wars rip - off to cash in on the still - rampant sci - fi fever, but Scott turned in an Alien that's about as anti-Star Wars as you can get.

It looks like vintage Hitchcock at first, with the socialite Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) playing a practical joke of sorts on mysterious attorney Mitch (Rod Taylor) when she visits his home in Bodega Bay, but things soon turn strange when Melanie is attacked by a seagull, and then the children at Mitch's sister Cathy's birthday party (Cathy is played by Veronica Cartwright, of «Alien» and «L.A. Law» fame) are attacked as well.

Then there's a scene, after they've captured an alien, when Nantz and the veterinarian perform a living autopsy on it to try to discover the monsters» weak spot, and things take a slightly logical turn (though don't expect them to follow the discovery of said autopsy, as the stated location of the aliens» vital spot changes in each telling, and headshots and grenades seem to work just fine anyway).

And when Teresa Palmer does show up, as another alien in hiding, I Am Number Four turns into a different movie completely.

With Lifeforce, Hooper parodies the sexual panic that informs the classic vampire tale, which is often famously preoccupied with the fear that giving in to what truly turns you on could upset your carefully governed symbiosis with the rest of society — a subtext that Hooper immediately elevates to text with a series of opening moments that follow Tom's crew as they enter a collection of alien chambers that must surely constitute some of the most vaginally symbolic imagery in all of American cinema.

It turns out, as revealed in Thor: Ragnarok, that he landed on the alien planet Sakaar and had a rather life changing experience becoming a champion gladiator and learning how to (somewhat) properly speak.

Michael Crichton-esque but with more horror as the world copes with an alien invasion that turns humans into all kinds of weird

A search in the Google Play store for «Retina - optimized apps» turned up 48 apps, of which only a handful were interesting titles, such as «Cows vs. Aliens» and «Elf Defense.»

Miasma also changes the game up quite a bit, as it not only heals aliens who end their turn in a tile with this gas, but damages your units.

This becomes frustrating in too many situations — if you are truly outnumbered by aliens, making distance before turning around and making a stand isn't really an option, as you just won't get far enough.

The tides at sea have turned against the US Navy as alien invaders are mounting a full attack.

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What began as an experiment aimed at bettering humanity has turned into a full - on alien...

You may remember cosplayer Liz Katz from her from her sultry Princess Peach cosplay, but as it turns out, she also enjoys paying a trip to Pandora's alien post-apocalyptic setting.

Basically, Drakengard 3 is about a homicidal prostitute who has been infected by a demonic alien flower that is going to turn her into a horrible world - ending monster that eventually serves as the final boss in Drakengard 1's final ending, which in turn causes the Black Scrawl disease at the center of Nier.