Sentences with phrase «turns in movies like»

Cumberbatch is best know as Sherlock Holmes in the BBC series Sherlock, but has also seen feature film turns in movies like The Fifth Estate, Star Trek Into Darkness and most recently as Alan Turning in The Imitation Game.

Cumberbatch is best know as Sherlock Holmes in the BBC series Sherlock, but has also seen feature film turns in movies like The Fifth Estate, Star Trek Into Darkness and this November's The Imitation Game.

Not exact matches

Others, like Avatar director James Cameron and Interstellar «s Christopher Nolan, have argued that the startup threatens the health of the movie industry, which turned in a record year in 2015 in terms of overall box office gross.

We felt as if we had been playing parts in a fascinating movie that suddenly took a bad turn, in which we had worked like dogs for two weeks to produce something really spectacular and then were written out of the script.»

Stewart has spent the last few years turning heads in quieter, moodier indie fare, earning raves for nuanced performances in movies like Still Alice and Personal Shopper (both of which are quite good).

SO GOOD), SPLIT (which was weird but fascinating), and I may or may not have made him watch the first Sex in the City movie for like 10 minutes until I turned it off because I knew how mean / torturous I was being.

I turned around and saw he was watching a movie in the car like this --

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — «A., I like movies, but B., it's a time for me to go out in public, when the lights turn down and no one can see who I am,» Syracuse Orange coach Dino Babers told SB Nation.

I woke up this morning and turned on the news and it was like hearing the plot in a movie.

I felt like the character Violet Beauregarde that turns into a giant blueberry in the movie «Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.»

Family Movie Night was pretty much exactly what it sounds like: we each took turns picking a film, and then the four of us hunkered down with pizza and popcorn in the basement and watched it together.

The Pod comes with a custom - fitted mattress and the conversion kit to turn into a toddler bed that looks like something out of a movie set in 2093.

The main player for the turn selects three cards from his hand and lays them down, describing his character — for example, for a male character: «war weapons collector, spends his holidays in Kazakhstan, likes movies about gladiators.»

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NOTE: Even though this movie is in English, you may want to treat it like a foreign film and turn on the subtitles.

In 1991 The Silence of the Lambs turned the course of horror movies away from fantastic boogeymen like Jason Vorhees and Freddy Krueger, and back to real - life serial killers.

Sleek and bloated, specific and generic, «Rogue Nation» is pretty much like most of the «Impossible» movies in that it's an immense machine that Mr. McQuarrie, after tinkering and oiling, has cranked up again and set humming with twists and turns, global trotting and gadgets, a crack supporting cast and a hard - working star.

Given his first chance to direct a movie in 1955, Edwards turned out a Richard Quine - like musical, Bring Your Smile Along; ironically, as Edwards» prestige grew, his style would be imitated by Quine.

The film feels predictable, rushed and overdone, like the filmmakers tried way too hard at masking a revenge themed action movie, and in turn the results are unimpressive.

Old School, which follows three grown men (Luke Wilson's Mitch, Will Ferrell's Frank, and Vince Vaughn's Beanie) as they turn their house into a fraternity, marks director Todd Phillips» first fictional endeavor since Road Trip, and it's immediately clear that the movie, like that 2000 Tom Green comedy, manages to entertain in spite of a distinct lack of overt laughs.

And since neither the cinematography (by Wyatt Garfield, «Ping Pong Summer») nor the editing (by Jay Deuby, «The Heat») turn the screws on these characters or on the narrative, we never feel that frog - in - a-boiling-pot tension that a movie like this should build.

But, like all comedies, everything turns out okay — a running gag about the hapless Jim whose sexual misadventures form the movie's backbone is that all of his disastrous missteps turn out right in the end.

It's adapted by Tracy Letts from his 1993 play (Friedkin also turned Letts's play Bug into a film in 2006), and its theatrical origins do become obvious in the way certain characters are left disconcertingly off screen; the movie is concluded with a long, slow and single - location sequence, which makes it looks oddly like a filmed stage play.

If you're a filmmaker and you can't turn $ 20 million into $ 80 million domestic, you're just not going to get the opportunities of those who can... and a movie like this is not gonna get anywhere * close * to those numbers unless women go and see it in equal numbers to the men who go to see a «Neighbors»... or at least a «Sideways».

Biggs would keep a low profile for the next few years, appearing in movies like Eight Below and Wedding Daze before turning to the small screen with the sitcom Mad Love in 2011, alongside Judy Greer and Sarah Chalke.

The movie's establishing shots make the real world look like a model - railroad diorama, but up close, the movie's performers — including Catastrophe's Sharon Horgan, who turns up as Magnussen's improbably smart and non-twentysomething date — are too ingratiating to work as satirical stand - ins.

In that way the movie, which also peppers its all - Latino voice cast with turns by Alfonso Arau, Edward James Olmos, Selene Luna, Cheech Marin and Luis Valdez, both honors the rich aesthetic heritage of Mexico and keeps these cultural markers from looking like they were merely dusted off and computer - generated for mass consumption.

In the end, like a lot of genre movies, this one pulls from different inspirations, and so weighs in, by turns, as overly predictable and satisfyingly recognizable (part of genre cinema's one - two punchIn the end, like a lot of genre movies, this one pulls from different inspirations, and so weighs in, by turns, as overly predictable and satisfyingly recognizable (part of genre cinema's one - two punchin, by turns, as overly predictable and satisfyingly recognizable (part of genre cinema's one - two punch).

It all sounds like a recipe for the most noxious liberal jerk - off movie since «Crash,» but in the hands of writer - director Richard LaGravenese, Freedom Writers turns out to be a superb piece of mainstream entertainment — not an agonized debate over the principles of modern education à la «The History Boys,» but a simple, straightforward and surprisingly affecting story of one woman who managed to make a difference.

While it's always going to be less frustrating when characters in horror movies behave like intelligent, attack mode - ready superhumans and can turn the tables on their terrorizers, Kinsey and her family all react as realistically as one would and with believable fallibility when thrown into a horrific situation they weren't ready for, and it's worthy of applause when some of them find it in themselves to fight back.

It also casually demonizes the Koreans, though it has someone speaking Mandarin to them at some point, so... Lucy plays like the cinematic manifestation of two kids having a conversation about what they'd like to see in a movie starring Scarlett Johansson: «So she gets smarter and then she knows gun - fu and then she turns into an oil blob.»

Like Tom Hanks in Big (cowritten by Gary Ross, who wrote this movie solo), he's a sweet - souled imposter who, because of his guileless nature, turns out to be far better at his job than the calculating adult he's impersonating.

Turns out that the entire time Lila and Eve have been playing kickass Tina - Terminators, there has been a second agenda unfolding behind the scenes — one that at least partially excuses the way Lopez's turn comes across so much phonier than the work she did in movies like «Selena» and «Out of Sight» nearly two decades ago.

Holdovers like David Fincher «s Gone Girl, the Robert Downey Jr. - lead The Judge, and Whiplash will still likely be in theaters for what might turn out to be a very enjoyable October at the movies.

Thanks to Miramax's handling, this art movie's local bookings have been exclusively at drive - ins and theaters like Ford City and Chestnut Station, until it turned up this week at the Three Penny.

There were still some funny parts in the movie, like when Kramer burst through the door to shout about turning that cross off so he could get some sleep.

We assume that Johnson will assume the role of Buchanon in the new movie, which looks like another sure - fire hit for the wrestler turned acting superstar.

Never in a million years would I have guessed that the same filmmaker might turn around and make something like Tangerine, his punk - as - fuck portrait of a much seedier L.A.. It's not just a total creative 180, but kind of the opposite of a sell - out move: Trading a formulaic story for an unpredictable one and a slick Indiewood aesthetic for a gorgeous, radical lo - fi approach, Baker trains his iPhone camera on the kind of characters — black and transgender prostitutes, immigrant cabbies — that the movies rarely acknowledge, let alone put into starring roles.

If the studio offered her chances to star in Disney Channel Original Movies, as they like to do for young actresses who bring them business, Hathaway turned them down.

Actors aren't Navy SEALs, I know, but Johansson was, in fact, brave to take on this role: brave in that it's a sharp left turn from what audiences expect or even like; brave in that she embraced an artistically bold method of building a movie when most other movie stars would have said no thanks to the idea of chatting up random Scotsmen in a van.

While The Discovery plays in many ways like a more effective version of the concept - choked Brit Marling / Zal Batmanglij movies, the cult scenes feel underdeveloped next to their film The Sound of My Voice, an intriguing but ragged thread left dangling as The Discovery turns towards more concrete, backstory - driven explanations for its characters» obsessions.

It doesn't so much re-litigate her case — tried in real court and the one of public opinion — as jazz up the juiciest details: the «motivational» maternal shit - talk that Janney performs like a profane comedy routine; the on - the - ice outbursts, sometimes punctuating Gillespie's robustly staged skating sequences; and every twist and turn of Gillooly's hapless criminal conspiracy, which turns the backstretch of the movie into a dimwit caper, dominated by Paul Walter Hauser's broadly farcical take on Eckhardt and his mouth - breathing delusions of grandeur.

Like every Edgar Wright movie since «Shaun of the Dead,» the director's fifth feature, «Baby Driver,» takes a ludicrous concept and turns it into a brilliant exercise in high style and a rush of big ideas.

With two of the five Best Actress slots probably locked - up (if you give one to Huffman and another to Gwyneth Paltrow's non-descript turn in the Miramax dump Proof), the Weinsteins go for three with perennial nominee Dame Judi Dench as the titular theatre - owner in Stephen Frears's Mrs. Henderson Presents, one of those bland, inoffensive, boring British movies about the British theatre (like Topsy - Turvy, perhaps, or, more to the point, Shakespeare in Love).

It's not quite as awful as Lynch's last effort, the horror - comedy «Knights of Badassdom,» but while the idea of watching a scantily - clad Hayek fight her way through yakuza henchman and prostitutes - turned - assassins may sound like a ton of fun, «Everly» is never able to match its B - movie aspirations, instead forced to flounder in the gutter like the filthy, exploitative grindhouse film that it is.

For their own inane reasons, movie critics — from professionals for the dailies to bloggers wearing footed pajamas as they tap away in their rec rooms — turned in mass against Shyamalan several years ago like lemmings catching wind of a nearby cliff.

But the movie conveniently gives us «the largest gathering of world leaders in history,» an easy and tempting target for a supervillain like Magneto, who plans to turn them into mutants.

Each plot point in The Glass House becomes increasingly ludicrous, using logic defying twists and turns that can only be present in movies like this.

After making his name in adult - targeted comedies like «Swingers», «Old School» and «Wedding Crashers», Vince Vaughn turned to PG - 13 movies like «The Break - up», «Couples Retreat» and «The Internship».

The largely interior, dialogue intensive picture sometimes veers into feeling like a TV movie (not helped by Howard Shore «s often overbearing, obvious score) with its static visuals, but strong turns by Del Toro and Amalric (who thankfully ditches a sea of quirks early on and settles into the part) at least keep things engaging, even if the narrative remains stuck in neutral for large chunks of the film.