Sentences with phrase «turned director john»

An extremely strange hybrid of dark comedy / drama, actor turned director John Slattery's (from Mad Men fame) film God's Pocket will likely be forever known only because of it's featuring of one of screen legend Philip Seymour Hoffman's last roles as grubby (when wasn't he grubby?)

Lucky comes to us from the most recent actor turned director John Carroll Lynch, whose name might not be household, but his face certainly is.

Not exact matches

In addition to Guillem Balagué, the line - up of speakers slotted for SMWW's London Sports Career Conference includes sports executive Adrian Bevington, talkSPORT's Jim White, Daily Mirror Chief Football Writer John Cross, ESPN's Alison Bender, WorldSoccer broadcaster Keir Radnedge, former professional footballer turned Vega Swiss Asset Management CEO Ramon Vega, Newcastle FC Data Analyst Lee Fraser, Newcastle Falcons Managing Director Mick Hogan, Miami Dolphins Quarterback Matt Moore, FIFA Agent Sky Andrew and many more.

Tennessee and athletic director John Currie have been publicly humiliated in the past week, between the hiring and un-hiring of Greg Schiano, being turned down by Mike Gundy and Jeff Brohm and now reportedly offering a contract to a coach - Dave Doeren - with striking similarities to the one they just fired.

Rep. John Katko has turned to a neighboring congressional district to fill the top position in his Syracuse office, tapping Patricia «Trish» Vail Dellonte, who worked for retiring Rep. Richard Hanna, to serve as his district director in NY - 24.

«GII wishes to appeal to President John Dramani Mahama to turn to President Muhammudu Buhari and President John Magufuli for mentoring and act more swiftly to curb corruption in this country,» GII said in a statement signed by its Executive Director Vitus Adaboo Azeem.

Anne Goldman, the UFT vice president for non-DOE members, shares insights while Paul Egan (sitting at dais, left), the UFT political director, and John Green (sitting at dais, right), a legislative representative from NYSUT, await their turns to speak.

They will exhaust molecular breeding options before turning to GM, said John Soper, Pioneer's soybean research director.

Arnault joined Dior in 2001 as commercial director, following a year - long turn at the helm of business development at the John Galliano brand, and was appointed as deputy managing director in 2008, becoming second - in - command under chief executive Sidney Toledeno.

Appearing in Simpatico and giving birth to a baby boy the same year, the tireless actress continued to turn up in such quirky films as Death to Smoochy, Full Frontal, and eccentric director Spike Jonze, follow - up to Being John Malkovich, Adaptation.

Loosely inspired by the true story of the heavy metal band Judas Priest, this music industry fable from director Stephen Herek is based on a script by actor - turned - writer / director John Stockwell.

Director / writer john Huston surely turns in a exemplary work of drama, lust, greed, corruption, backstabbing, and all the usual standbys of life on planet earth, with a sure hand and eye.

Even fueled by Reynolds, whose likability is practically a super power, a new director in David Leitch («John Wick» and «Atomic Blonde»), charismatic new costars like Zazie Beetz («Atlanta») and Julian Dennison («Hunt for the Wilderpeople»), bigger stakes (and more money to execute them), «Deadpool 2,» suffers from the sequelitis that typically threatens gimmicky gambles turned tentpole franchises.

John Steele, a Vietnam veteran and ex-cop, is on a mission to bring down Kwan, a former South Vietnamese general turned rich and powerful drug lord in this action drama from director Robert Boris.

This film from stuntman turned director David Leitch (who debuted behind the camera with «John Wick») starts with a literal bang, with our mysteriously depressed hero immolating himself atop a deathbed of explosive fuel canisters, then works its way backwards to detail the trauma that made him sad enough to kill himself.

As for the substance behind this series, no matter how much the final product both bloats and hurries itself along, it's hard as all get - out to deny the value within Alex Haley's «factional» tale, which is rich with the potential for compellingness and thematic depth that, more often than not, recieves justice from teleplay writer and source material book completer David Stevens, who draws lively characterization and depth, which in turn recieves its own bit of justice from director John Erman.

... Flashpoint has taken a big step forward this week with the news that Vacation and Game Night directors John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein (who worked on the script for Spider - Man: Homecoming) have signed on to direct the movie, after Ben Affleck reportedly turned down the opportunity.

Director John Madden keeps the physical and psychological thrills never telegraphing his twists and turns.

At the same time, his daughter (Chloe Grace Moretz), a minor who just turned 17, is starting an affair with a sixty - something film director (John Malkovich) who is legendary for his skill and productivity but also notorious for making films about older men having affairs with much younger women and doing the same thing in real life.

A Quiet Place is directed by American actor - turned - filmmaker John Krasinski, director of the films Brief Interviews with Hideous Men and The Hollars previously.

Oscar nominated director John Madden's career has taken interesting twists and turns since «Shakespeare in Love» won best picture in 1999.

Screenwriter John Romano served time as writer - producer on Hills Street Blues, L.A. Law and Monk, while director Brad Furman turned to crime in his first feature, The Take.

Paul Dano and John Cusack play young and old versions of the Beach Boys» Brian Wilson in this unique biopic from producer turned director Bill Pohlad.

In reality, it's a terrific piece that gets most of its juice from director John Michael McDonagh's quip - packed script and Gleeson's sensational turn as a profane copper who's more intelligent than he appears.

Direct from Cannes, John Travolta and actor - turned - director Kevin Connolly talk about Travolta's portrayal of mob boss John Gotti in Gotti.

Director John Landis, who is here chairing the VR jury, wiped away tears as he stood behind a visibly moved del Toro, also turning on the waterworks and with a huge smile on his face.

by Walter Chaw Essentially a remake of Kim Jee - woon's A Bittersweet Life shot through with oodles of late -»80s John Woo gunplay, stuntman - turned - director Chad Stahelski's John Wick is, damnit, really just so much fun.

Adapted from a 1993 novel by Irvine Welsh, who has a cameo in the movie as a drug dealer, Trainspotting was created by the same team that turned out the much less interesting Shallow Grave: producer Andrew Macdonald, director Danny Boyle, writer John Hodge, lead actor Ewan McGregor, and the same cinematographer, production designer, and editor.

FINCHER IS NO FAN OF MARVEL After some harsh words from An American Werewolf in London director John Landis, it's the turn of -LSB-...]

Need for Speed is directed by stuntman turned director Scott Waugh (Act of Valor) and written by George Nolfi (The Bourne Ultimatum), John Gatins (Real Steel) and producer George Gatins.

Once there, the family of killer dolls meet a downtrodden personal assistant (Hannah Spearritt), a rapper - turned - director (Redman), and sleazy tabloid journalist Peter Peters (John Waters).»

In turn, The French Connection «s influence has been multifarious, putting its stamp on everything from John Frankenheimer's underrated 1975 sequel and producer - turned - director Philip D'Antoni's unofficial follow - up, The Seven - Ups (also starring Roy Scheider and Tony Lo Bianco), to the Spike Jonze - directed Beastie Boys video «Sabotage,» an affectionate homage - spoof of the barrage of gritty «70s cop shows that followed in Friedkin's wake.

But the director John Hillcoat, working from a screenplay by Nick Cave, has made a movie you can not turn away from; it is so pitiless and uncompromising, so filled with pathos and disregarded innocence, that it is a record of those things we pray to be delivered from.

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GamesBeat had the chance to speak with Turn 10's Content Director John Wendl ahead of the October 3rd launch.

«Brooklyn» Turns out they do make them like they used to, or at least director John Crowley and writer Nick Hornby (adapting the novel by Colm Tóibín) do.

Director John McTiernan «s action Sci - fi classic Predator turns 30 this year, which stars the one and only Arnold Schwarzenegger in this explosive»80s gem.

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The Russos, with assistance from people such as Winter Soldier cinematographer Trent Opaloch as well as second unit directors David Leitch and Chad Stahelski (the longtime stunt coordinators - turned directors of John Wick), serve up several precisely - choreographed action sequences, varying from quick - cutting fisticuffs to exhilarating foot chases and combat situations that make great use of individual superhero's unique abilities.

Whereas Zero boasts the buzz - attracting pedigree of Bigelow and Boal, Seal Team Six hails from John Stockwell, an actor turned director whose niche has been water - based films like Blue Crush and Into the Blue.

Director John Landis blends horror, humor, and a little romance with cutting edge (at the time) special effects to tell the tale of a handsome American tourist David (David Naughton) doomed to turn into a Pepper — I mean a werewolf — at the next full moon.

Recent Blu - ray and DVD releases include: «Riverdale: The Complete First Season,» which promises David Lynch and delivers «Peyton Place» in its depiction of the shadows and scandals of small - town life with characters taken from Archie Comics; Ronin (1998) directed by a once occasionally great director, John Frankenheimer, involves mercenaries working for unseen paymasters trying to steal a case with unknown contents; Aretha Franklin: Divas Live, on this 2001 VH1 broadcast, released as a DVD / CD set, Franklin opens her concert with «I Can't Turn You Loose» backed by a horn - powered rhythm band that echoes the excitement of past triumphs; and Heal the Living finds people with no apparent relation to one another drawn together by an accident.

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.

Written by prolific TV scribes David Feeney (2 Broke Girls and NewGirl) and John Quaintance (Ben and Kate, Undateable), the film is helmed by dancer - turned - choreographer - turned director Anne Fletcher, who has previously brought us comedies Step Up, 27 Dresses and The Proposal, and is soon to take the big - budget reigns of Enchanted 2.

The neglected story of Hugo himself is where the director's indulgence is most evident, his infatuation with Méliès (and other personal interests) trumping and shortchanging the ostensibly primary plot line, resulting in an occasionally crippled pace that merely turns the pages of John Logan's script.

I may even turn out for another hour of family drama «This is Us» (9/20), with a pilot written by Dan Fogelman and directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa (the same writer / director team behind «Crazy, Stupid, Love.»)

Working with production designer John Barry and special effects supervisor John Dykstra, writer - director George Lucas makes escapist entertainment respectable again, and more — he turns it into art.

Writer / director John Hamburg has turned a pretty inane idea into a rather funny little comedy that just might be the compromise between a chick flick and something we won't have to squirm in our seats just to make our dates happy.

It has been adapted to screen by writer John Ridley («U Turn», «Red Tails») and the BAFTA nominated director Steve McQueen («Hunger», «Shame»).

With a monstrous performance from Brendan Gleeson, stunning cinematography and a decidedly more mature turn for director John Michael McDonagh, Calvary is a must see.