THE 19th SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARD WINNERS As an actor, I love
watching the Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Not exact matches
Watching this movie, you're constantly reminded that the
actors are looking at green
screens instead of the alien planets, insane alternate dimensions and glorious vistas that you're seeing, and that essentially breaks the movie.
Amazon's X-Ray allows viewers
watching certain movies or TV shows on certain devices to touch the
screen for instant
actor identification.
Any
screen actor is a delight to
watch when, take after take, they dish up their performance freshly, as if they were doing it for the first time.
We
watched all three of these young
actors literally grow up on
screen, but more importantly become comfortable in their own skin and really inhabit the characters that will most likely define them for the rest of their lives — or at the very least another 10 or 15 years.
However, until that happens, I'm content to
watch this multi-talented
actor / performer in whatever
screen roles he chooses — Wolverine, an Australian drover, a deceitful partner — or, as in Real Steel, a struggling boxing promoter whose many character flaws include a willingness to sell his 11 - year - old son.
But at least you'll never get lost trying to follow the story because, luckily, every so often Najafi cuts back to a group of far - too - talented
actors sitting in a room together,
watching the action on a
screen and explaining the entire plot to each other.
Thwaites is one of the least interesting young leading men we keep getting in movies right now, and his presence here started to grate on me almost immediately, because he's such a boring
actor to
watch on
screen.
Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different
actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine
watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth
Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.
If other
actors and directors want to know what on -
screen chemistry is supposed to look like, all they need to do is
watch these two.
The Independent
watch on as the three - time Oscar - winner - deemed by many to be one of the best working
actors today - spoke at London's V&A Museum following a
screening of new drama Phantom Thread where he was asked if there have been any film roles he wishes he could have played.
Watching these actors on screen felt like watching a think tank of the smartest humans o
Watching these
actors on
screen felt like
watching a think tank of the smartest humans o
watching a think tank of the smartest humans on Earth.
Although I am unfamilar with the
actors up for the part of Mr Fantastic, my personal favourite for the role of Sue Storm is Saoirse Ronan, simply because she is a joy to
watch on
screen and is easily one of the most talented young actresses working today.
Oli and Luke went on their first podcast date together,
watching a preview
screening of Warcraft, followed by a Q+A with director Duncan Jones and
actors Travis -LSB-...]
Oli and Luke went on their first podcast date together,
watching a preview
screening of Warcraft, followed by a Q+A with director Duncan Jones and
actors Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton and Toby Kebbell.
0:00 — Intro 3:45 — Review: The Dark Knight Rises 36:00 — Headlines: Jessica Biel to Play Viper in The Wolverine, Dwayne Johnson Confirms Lobo Casting Rumours, Anthony Mackie in Talks For Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Gary Ross to Direct Peter Pan Prequel, Hellboy 3 Might Happen, The Dark Knight Shooting, Fred Willard Masturbation Scandal, The Master Trailer, The Man of Steel Teaser Trailer 59:30 — Other Stuff We
Watched: Harold and Maude, Wanderlust, The Devil's Double, Brave 3D, Hardware, Lord of War, Silent House, Operation Condor (Armour of God II), Shallow Grave, Cast Away, Death Becomes Her, 127 Hours 1:21:20 — Junk Mail: Dark Knight Shooting, Movies That are Enjoyable Because of the Plot, Kathy Griffin Talks During Magic Mike
Screening,
Actors Playing Multiple Roles Within a Movie / TV Series, What's Funnier: Die Hard or Lethal Weapon?
There is so much talent on
screen, so many great
actors, that it's no surprise it's an entertaining
watch.
However the
actor is definitely talented and always a treat to
watch on
screen whether he is playing a loveable, goofy oddball or a gargantuan killing machine.
The 2018
Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations are out, and the frontrunners will be familiar to anyone who's
watched premium cable, independent films, or just looked over the Golden Globes nominees this year.
The intensity and believability drops off significantly in the 1997 version, but oddly, the older
actors are much more fun to
watch on
screen... especially the great Helen Mirren.
(I recall sitting in a theater
watching Green's All the Real Girls and wondering if the
actors were moving so slowly across the
screen because he had directed them that way or because they were prematurely arthritic.)
Though the supporting cast doesn't have much to do — save for Ana de Armas, who's slowly becoming an actress to
watch between her work here and in last week's «War Dogs» — it's filled with veteran
actors like Blades, Turturro, Ellen Barkin and Reg E. Cathey (as flamboyant boxing promoter Don King) who know how to make the most of their limited
screen time.
Throughout, Kyle peppers the conversation with his insight on voters, the importance of being the «movie for right now» and we dip a bit into
Screen Actors Guild talk, especially regarding Get Out (
watch out for a new podcast for that this weekend).
It's the kind of performance where the
actor becomes lost and you feel like you are
watching the real - life inspiration on
screen.
Dominic West always
watches his own TV shows and films.The «John Carter»
actor doesn't enjoy seeing himself on
screen, but thinks it is important to...
Whenever they're on
screen together, it's almost too easy to forget we're
watching the same
actor.
As an
actor, he was cited as one of BAFTA's 2011 Brits to
Watch, and his more recent
screen credits include Denis Villeneuve's Sicario, Kick - Ass 2 and Eran Creevy's Welcome to the Punch.
Consider the fact that Thomas Kretschmann (the wonderful German
actor who played the Nazi officer in «The Pianist) plays most of his role sitting alone in a room,
watching a computer
screen.
When you're
watching a movie that has X-Ray content (as indicated by a small icon), a little window appears at the upper left corner that shows the names of the
actors currently on
screen.
As you're
watching a movie, tapping the top of the
screen while a film is playing will bring up the names of all the
actors in that particular scene.
Even if you ignore that the price is right, there are plenty of reasons to choose the device, including: voice search functionality that actually works (just speak the name of a movie, TV show,
actor, director or genre to get started
watching your next favourite), hundreds of low - cost games (with titles like Minecraft and the Walking Dead) that can be played using the Amazon Fire Game Controller that is available separately, X-Ray for movies and television shows (telling you everything you wanted to know and more about the on -
screen cast and crew), and seamless integration with Amazon's Cloud Drive.
By tapping the
screen while
watching «Django Unchained,» we could pull up bios on the
actors in any given scene.
By tapping the
screen while
watching «Django Unchained,» we pulled up bios on the
actors in any given scene.
If you're
watching a movie on a Kindle, you can tap on an on -
screen actor and — without leaving the movie — review the
actor's profile and information, provided by the IMDb entertainment database.