One thing we can’t deny is that a lot of Hollywood actors are good-looking. Their pretty faces grace the cover of magazines displayed on the news-stands we pass by. Or in the commercials that come up on our television. Some even get featured in music videos. But sometimes actors are more than just their pretty faces, here's ten examples of truly talented performers, who also happen to look really good.
The 2008 thriller, The Escapist, introduced us to the British director, Rupert Wyatt. And if you weren’t familiar with that particular work, then you would have recognized his second movie, which was much more popular: Rise of the Planet of the Apes. After finding a lot of success with that film, and opting not to direct its sequel, the director has now found his next film with the adaptation of Sebastian Faulks’ novel, Birdsong.
With Jeff Nichols’ latest coming of age, crime drama, Mud, Matthew McConaughey's character finds himself at the other side of the law, living on a boat, and in this new poster, holding a gun.
Two new images have been released from Kenneth Branagh's Jack Ryan, featuring both Chris Pine and Kevin Costner. It’s been quite a while – eleven years to be precise – since we visited the world surrounding Tom Clancy's character. In fact, if Jack Ryan was being considered for a job, he would have built an impressive résumé with the list of actors portraying his character.
The independent film director, Jim Jarmusch, will curb our appetites for a vampire love story with his next project, Only Lovers Left Alive, starring Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton as the movie’s protagonists. With the release of its new official still, we’re given a first glance at the film’s vampire lovers.
Ladies and gentlemen, it’s that time of the year again when the highly anticipated, epic fantasy television series, Game of Thrones, returns to HBO’s screen with a new season. The third season will be an adaptation of the first half of George R.R. Martin’s A Storm of Swords, which is the third book in A Song of Ice and Fire series. But before we’re dazzled by the shocking revelations that the new season has to offer, D.B. Weiss and David Benioff have given us an intriguing insight to some of the show’s cast, who will be portraying old and new characters.
The Argentinian filmmaker, Juan Diego Solanas, devises an original sci-fi romantic fantasy with his latest movie, Upside Down, starring Kirsten Dunst and Jim Sturgess in the lead roles. The film toys with the concept of gravity, and involves two planets that are in close proximity with each other. The planet's occupants are separated by class, with the upper class citizens at the top and the lower class at the bottom, experiencing their different gravitational laws.
It has been confirmed that the eighteen year old actress, Dakota Fanning, will star in the upcoming, true story titled The Last of Robin Hood. Fanning will portray the fifteen year old mistress of Kelvin Kline’s forty-eight year old character, Errol Flynn. The movie also features Susan Sarandon, who will play the mother to Fanning’s character.
The Academy Award winning actress, Kate Winslet, may be joining the cast of Summit’s new dystopian franchise, Divergent, with Neil Burger as the movie’s director. Currently, the only actress attached to the project is Shailene Woodley, who will be playing the film’s protagonist, Beatrice Prior, a.k.a Tris. Burger’s adaptation is based on the best-selling young adult novel by Veronica Roth, a novel that has been compared to Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games.
The Coen brothers, who brought us some great films like No Country For Old Men in 2007 and True Grit in 2010, have returned to filmmaking with the anticipated, artistic drama Inside Llewyn Davis, in which Oscar Isaac plays the lead role.
