Sentences with phrase «valiant performances»

But Submission — despite valiant performances from Stanley Tucci and Addison Timlin as the parties involved — lacks the spark it needs to spring to life.

That comeback draw coupled with their valiant performance away at Man City last week, in which they almost came from two - goal down but ended up losing 3 - 1, could be the telling signs of a Wolves renaissance.

We were, of course, involved in the game that effectively decided the title over the weekend as our boys put in a valiant performance in the 0 - 0 draw with United.

Begun as one of the fake Grindhouse trailers only seen by Canadian audiences, Eisener's feature - length dark comedy about a vigilante vagrant (Rutger Hauer in a valiant performance) mowing down some of the most vile residents of a lawless town may be the best midnight movie of the 2000s (even beating out Rodriguez's delightful Planet Terror for sheer WTF!

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He's put forth some valiant efforts in Pitt's 17 - game losing streak, including 17 - plus point performances against Virginia Tech, Duke, NC State, Syracuse, Miami, and Florida State.

Despite the win proving elusive at home, Blackpool's performances on the whole at Bloomfield Road have been very pleasing, especially their latest valiant effort against Man City, who the pushed all the way and never gave up until the final whistle in typical Holloway / Blackpool fashion.

They done so by the skin of their teeth in previous seasons, but last season Bolton finished a clear nine points above the drop, with the teams results definitely improving in the second half of the season under new manager Owen Coyle, so there were promising signs from the Reebok club that they can do a lot better than they for the most part last term, when positive form was almost non-existent and despite some valiant and brave efforts against some classy opponents they just couldn't convert their courageous performances into points which would have propelled them up the Premier League and into a more respectable finishing position.

Through a trippy time structure that I have seen before, «Downloading Nancy,» a darkly perverse movie, makes a valiant attempt to tell her story with some success due to a fearless performance from Maria Bello.

Jeremy Renner delivers an Oscar - quality performance in this true tale recounting the valiant effort of an intrepid journalist to expose the CIA's role in infesting inner city neighborhoods across the country with crack cocaine.

On the negative, that would have also made the film lose its only redeemable element, which is Applegate's valiant effort to give an actual performance amid all the inanity of all the slapstick and the tedium of a forced romantic subplot between André and the gardener next door (Tara Reid).

William Shatner brings the thunder in a second half performance that either j - u-s-t redeems this sequel's existence or makes a valiant argument for its existence; that's a debate for the ages.

There was a noticeable deficiency in the performance of the Chevrolet Corvette C7.Rs relative to the BMW, Porsche and Ferrari contingent, but Milner ran his own race and fought a valiant fight against the Falken and factory Porsche entries while ensuring he bequeathed an clean car to Gavin, who took the reins with 57 minutes remaining.