Sentences with phrase «type movie star»

MONDAY, April 16 «Dark City» (1950, William Dieterle) A gang of bickering grifters, led by Charlton Heston (in his off - type movie star debut) get in hot water after a crooked card game.

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The major flaw with Forbes» process is equally obvious when the types of movies the actors star in are considered.
The movies are a spinoff of the Harry Potter novels and films, and stars Eddie Redmayne as a man named Newt Scamander, who unleashes all types of magical mischief into the world, 70 years before the story of Harry Potter begins.
Even in the last star wars movie the universal council fell under the desires of a Nimrod type.
A serious, Erin Brockovich - type movie about school food reform, starring a serious actor?
I like all different types of things from sports to camping or sitting around a campfire, to sitting on a blanket at night in the summer stareing up at the stars and wondering which one is you to cuddling on the couch while watching a movie.
Merriman's done horror before, and even starred in one of the Final Destination movies, but he's clearly not right for this type of film.
Two beautiful people struggle to maintain their marriage despite lures of infidelity in Last Night, the type of project in which movie stars indulge their oh - so - serious side via facile stripped - down character drama.
This Is The Type Of Movies We Want Johnny Depp To Star Finally.
I've always preferred gnarly character actors to pretty boy movie star types.
I always felt it was a backlach against the horrible star wars movies that were coming out in the early 2000's — Blizzard said: «we can do that type of story way better» and they did.
Pam Grier is at her best recapturing the type of role that made her a bonafide star in»70s blaxploitation movies like Foxy Brown...
Give»em sunglasses, call them movie people and pass them off as Hollywood types on a «location scout» for a «Star Wars» ripoff, a sci - fi picture set in the desert.
Until this year, Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur mostly made two types of pictures: dramas in his native language about men trying to survive under brutal conditions («The Deep») and action - adventures in English with American movie stars («2 Guns»).
Rampage is one of those rare delights that B Movie audiences get when their favourite brand of film - making (Sharktopus, Dragon Wasps — you know the type), gets a massive budget, worthy CGI and some charismatic stars.
Back when this was first released, you might wonder what the massive star of Braveheart and Gangs of New York is doing in a small movie like this, but since In Bruges, this has become Gleeson's typical type of movie.
At the risk of offending many of his many actor - collaborators, I'll say that not once in 40 years has Mike Leigh ever starred a conventionally handsome or beautiful movie star type.
After taking a break from playing unhinged maniacs for the upcoming Justice League movie (in which he improbably plays a «good guy»), Willem Dafoe is returning to the type of role that made him a star for Blair Witch director Adam Wingard's Death Note movie.
The real losers are the actors themselves, because this is the type of movie where careers go to die, as evidenced by the involvement of former stars like Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Lohan and Heather Locklear.
The first movie I ever saw in my life was Star Wars, and perhaps for that reason the only types of music that affect me emotionally are bright, glorious, uplifting melodies, of unusual character and originality.
Tatum splits the difference between Soderbergh's two types of protagonists: he definitely has movie - star charisma, but there's something unformed in his onscreen persona.
This send - up of all the Star Wars movies abounds with typical Airplane - type visual gags and humor.
Call it the Curse of the Super Bowl — and to movie - industry types, it's scarier than the sole wide theatrical release risking the time slot, the horror film Winchester, starring Helen Mirren and Jason Clarke.
This is the type of movie Hollywood doesn't make anymore: a star - driven, high - concept and midish - sized budget ($ 55 million) vehicle that doesn't placate to the lowest common denominator among audiences.
The movie has a quipping Ryan Reynolds starring as a C - list Marvel character with a primary fan base of pimply teenage gamer types whose interests include hanging out in their mom's basement and perusing the latest graphic tees at Hot Topic?
Just a fun movie that took me back to the «Star Wars - Indiana Jones» type experiences I had as a kid.
But I suppose Hallström felt that with all the other types of warm fuzzies he covers — mother - daughter, grandmother - grandson, friend - friend — he might as well drop in good ol' man - woman cuddlies between glamorous movie stars.
Red Sparrow, the new film from Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence and star Jennifer Lawrence, is a convoluted spy thriller with as many twists and turns as one might expect from this type of movie - and one shocking ending.
His latest effort is for one of his biggest movies yet (the Shrek blockbusters excepted), Tony Scott's Man on Fire starring Denzel Washington playing against type as a vigilante determined to avenge the kidnapping of a young girl he was guarding.
Popping up everywhere are movies about people buckling under their own artistic weight — the kind that comes with being a certain type of jazz musician («Whiplash»), actor («Birdman»), novelist («Listen Up Philip»), painter (Mike Leigh's «Mr. Turner»), actor again (Chris Rock's upcoming «Top Five,») concert pianist (the Ethan Hawke - directed fall - festival documentary smash «Seymour»), actor once more (Olivier Assayas» «Clouds of Sils Maria»), rock singer (the Michael Fassbender - starring «Frank»), documentary filmmaker (Noah Baumbach's upcoming «While We're Young») and actor again (Al Pacino's «The Humbling»).
As you know, the original series of movies starred Brendan Fraser as a sub-Indian Jones type dude, who encounters the titular monster on three occassions, each to more diminishing returns.
There are pointed stabs at needy stage types, imperious New York critics (Lindsay Duncan briefly but memorably sketches an icy reviewer waiting to kill Riggan's play in a heartbeat) and contemporary theatre's reliance on movie stars to pull in the punters.
There are other movies seen in various stages of production on the Capitol lot, none completely convincing as period pastiche, some funny as send - ups of bad filmmaking: a musical starring an Esther Williams type named DeeAnna Moran (Scarlett Johansson), who refers to her mermaid costume as a «fish ass;» Merrily We Dance, directed by ascot - wearing priss Laurence Laurentz (Ralph Fiennes); bits of Doyle's singing cowboy movies and the latest from Gene Kelly-esque dancer - athlete Burt Gurney (Channing Tatum, showing off a surprisingly passable singing voice).
Or make that: we seldom manage to outguess movies that play fair (like Sixth Sense, The Crying Game, the original 1960s Planet of the Apes) instead of cheat — usually the «brain in the vat» type of story such as Fight Club, Vanilla Sky and Identity — that thing about the serial killer at the abandoned motel during a rainy night starring John Cusack.
Even The Perfect Guy's regressions, though, are sadly familiar; this is Sony genre subsidiary Screen Gems» second annual low - rent thriller starring talented black actors in the types of leading roles they should be getting in bigger, or at least better, movies.
Lady Bird may be the star of this story — a star in general, she would tell you — but the movie is more than simply the coming - of - age of a discontented creative type.
The movie stars Gary Oldman, unsurpassable in roles of this type, as a crooked, greedy cop named Jack Grimaldi who is working both sides of the street.
Most dogs recorded for living long periods of time were working animals - active herding dogs, movie stars / actors, or involved in other types of mental and physical stimulation.
Twin Palms is a leader on the island for chic, well thought out concepts that transcend room types, facilities, amenities, and cuisine.This five - star Surin Beach - based resort is stunning to look at and better yet, extremely professionally run with its own beach club (the first on the island), exciting and trendy design, and innovative ideas - it even has its own radio station that broadcasts to the entire island!Accommodation is in step with the excellent quality that Twin Palms is known for: The Presidential Penthouse is 600sqm and sumptuously fitted out with a full kitchen, a movie theatre, quality bedding, and many luxurious extras.
Indeed, there's a massive gulf between a script's audience stars, which the rules describe as indicating the type of potential audience being targeted, and the actual people who watch the movie.
While there have been numerous different types of antagonists throughout the movies, Kylo Ren is exactly the Star Wars villain we need — and deserve.
On the heels of the new Star Wars movie, The Force Awakens I thought it would be appropriate to consider what Myers Briggs personality type of MBTI, you are if you were one of your favorite characters in Star Wars.
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