Sentences with phrase «as a sidekick in»

Not exact matches

Bullard's comments were notable because he was Ben Bernanke's sidekick in pushing the bond - buying program known as quantitative easing that the Fed adopted late last year.

In fact, the film entirely misses the comical quality of Samwise Gamgee, the deferential and half - literate peasant who serves as Frodo's bumbling sidekick.

The casting was sublime: Ryan Anderson as the jive - talking front man in an ill - fitting toupee, Tyreke Evans as the Special Man's sidekick (with nooooooo problem) and Anthony Davis in the lead role.

If that happens, he could end up as the perfect sidekick to whomever the Bulls take in next years draft.

Before the start of the series, in a desperate attempt to develop some special strategy to stop Orr and his goal - scoring sidekick, Esposito, Philadelphia Coach Fred Shero had spent long hours analyzing films of his team's repeated losses to the Bruins as well as clips of the Russian national team's checking tactics against Team Canada.

Pageau in prior years has been a 30 - 40 point 3rd line center, where as Conor Sheary has spent time up and down the lineup, notably putting up a very respectable regular season last year as Sidney Crosby's sidekick.

As they entered free agency, the Thunder were staring at a hefty luxury - tax bill, a bloated cap sheet for years to come, and a superstar with one year left on his contract and no sidekick in sight.

With a handsome sidekick setting him up, Danny Basavich, a.k.a. Kid Delicious, posed as a bumbling slob and won a small fortune in a four - year pool - hustling odyssey.

As a mom of two kids, I'm always open to any suggestions for simplifying things with a sidekick in tow, and this flexible travel system is great.

As Don Quixote readied his armor and prepared to charge, Sancho Panza, his halfwit sidekick, stood in disbelief.

As for Dino Melaye, Saraki's unfazed sidekick, in Magu and allied senatorial wars, the beam on his university degrees, real or phantom, clearly shows he is no more, as his adopted name suggests, than grating diAs for Dino Melaye, Saraki's unfazed sidekick, in Magu and allied senatorial wars, the beam on his university degrees, real or phantom, clearly shows he is no more, as his adopted name suggests, than grating dias his adopted name suggests, than grating din.

He appeared in two Austin Powers films as Mini-Me, the clone and sidekick of the villain Dr Evil who was played by Mike Myers.

An absolute mystery is a truth The mystery of the disappearing Midsomer sidekicks: Why has DCI Barnaby been through almost as many assistants as murder cases in 18 series of the show?

It's followed by an album highlight in the light - hearted theme for Conan's Mongol sidekick Subotai, presented as a splendid dialogue for cor anglais and clarinet in «Theology / Civilization», widening to the strings to make a truly joyful antidote to the oppressive feel of the preceding tracks.

Even though he's hoofing the same animal - sidekick territory here as he did in Mulan, Murphy dominates the dialogue, portraying a donkey who's as motormouthed as he's supposed to be stubborn, the perfect foil to Myers» anti-social, Scots - accented Shrek (quite why Myers insists on repeatedly foisting this fake - Caledonian twang on us is a mystery, but, what the hell, it works well enough).

Having no intention of becoming king, Shrek, with sidekicks Donkey (voice of Eddie Murphy) and Puss in Boots (voice of Antonio Banderas), sets off to find Arthur and bring him back, but as they're setting off, Fiona reveals she's pregnant.

Barely sketched, this relationship primarily serves as an occasion for the mayor to achieve a personal sort of resolution, approximate to Horton's resolution with his own community, whether in the form of the kangaroo, his speedy sidekick, or his students.

Speaking of pals, previous scene stealers Eddie Murphy and, especially, Antonio Banderas are given nothing new to do as sidekicks Donkey and Puss in Boots.

Director Breck Eisner has the basic feel for action movies down as he sends Dirk and wacky sidekick / homoerotic love interest Al Giordino (Steve Zahn) off in search of a lost Confederate ironclad buried in the Sahara sands.

Scrawny and socially awkward, his only friend a fishy sidekick in a robot suit (David Cross), Megamind comes to own his outsider status; Metro Man just as easily slides into the role life laid out for him.

Brandis followed up with starring roles as a ringer for a girls» soccer team in Ladybugs (1992) and a weakling who lives his dream of practicing martial arts with Chuck Norris in Sidekicks (1993).

The hit series follows the raunchy and hilarious adventures of Captain Zack Stevers and his sidekick Daniel the turtle as they travel the seven seas in search of what else... booty!

The Duke's real - life grandson Brendan Wayne turns in a supporting role as Quirt's sidekick, Randy.

He bumbled and stumbled around in several youth - oriented film comedies, notably as Vincent Price's dimwitted assistant in Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1966) and Elvis Presley's careless sidekick in Tickle Me (1965).

G - Force puts players in control of both Darwin, the guinea pig leader of the covert intelligence G - Force squad, and housefly surveillance sidekick, Mooch, as they team up with the other G - Force agents and use their gadgets, stealth mastery and pint - sized teamwork as mankinds only hope to complete a dangerous high - level government mission.

Chris - Pin Martin appeared in several Cisco Kid programmers, playing sidekick Pancho (sometimes named Gorditor) to such screen Ciscos as Warner Baxter, Cesar Romero, Gilbert Roland and Duncan Renaldo.

As Denzel's trigger happy sidekick he is both fearsome and hilarious and he effortlessly steals every scene he appears in.

Watch as Shank and his deadly sidekick Falcone ply their particular brand of retribution in the local multiplayer campaign.

Stiller is reprising his role as clueless male model Derek Zoolander, who in the film has a penchant for selfie sticks, and Wilson returns as his fellow model and sidekick Hansel as they attempt to put an end to a plot to assassinate the world's most beautiful people.

47 Ronin could have been a landmark of sorts in the advancement of Asian actors in the Hollywood mainstream beyond token and sidekick roles, but when the material they're given is as third - rate and lifeless as this, such gestures toward progress can't help but seem hollow at best.

And Luc Besson sidekick Pierre Morel tries to do for Sean Penn what he did for Liam Neeson in Taken: The Gunman, as mentioned above, drops the star of Milk and Mystic River deep into the Republic of Asskickistan.

Jimmi Simpson, who plays Liam McPoyle on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (among a host of other wonderfully creepy roles), has reportedly joined the cast as one of Lincoln's sidekicks.

Downey Jr shined as Tony Stark for the same reason, and» Ant - Man» is full of jokes for their own sake — like Michael Pena's chatterbox comic sidekick — as well as tongue in cheek nods about how frankly ridiculous an ant - sized superhero is.

Silver lining: Ex Machina's Alicia Vikander, whose plucky German car mechanic Gaby Teller joins Furiosa and Ilsa Faust, if to a lesser degree, as heroines in action franchises this year who don't exist simply to operate as eye - candy sidekicks to their male co-stars.

Grint's understated performance, something which his work in Harry Potter has hinted at, reveals a wise beyond his years maturity and soulfulness that should allow the actor to escape from being forever seen in casting director's eyes as Harry Potter's funny sidekick.

The comedic banter between him and his sidekick Giordino, which comes off in the books more as a protective surrogate than the drinking buddy, guy - talking second banana type we get from Steve Zahn.

Of course the story is told in broad strokes as Steele bumps into leggy Agent 3.14 (Nicollette Sheridan), an agency director who loves disguises (Charles Durning) and assorted sidekicks.

A high - spirited Eddie Murphy (back next month in the flesh as Dr. Dolittle 2) as the loquacious Donkey sidekick embroiders his ingratiate - me - PLEEZ bravado that animated the character of Mushu the Dragon in Disney's Mulan.

Gad will star as Gaston's sidekick Le Fou in the remake, which is due to begin filming later next month.

Survivors Eggsy and tech - savvy sidekick Merlin (Mark Strong) discover a safety net in the American intelligence agency Statesman, masquerading as a Kentucky bourbon company.

Lee Valmassy has a lot of fun letting loose as the gleefully farcical villain (a mohawked, golden - grilled gangster who only wears jumpsuits), and Art Hsu turns in a scene - stealing performance as the hero's duck - loving sidekick, but while fans of bad movies might appreciate what «The FP» has to offer, it's not exactly the ready - made cult classic that it's so desperately trying to be.

DD: Hmm... To star in an action movie with Denzel as my sidekick and with Will Smith as the villain.

As the film alludes to in a very funny sequence involving Johnson's Maui and Cravalho's Moana meeting for the first time, there is the princess element, along with kooky sidekick HeiHei (played by Alan Tudyk, Moana's pet rooster, his look apparently modelled on Musker) and pet pig Pua, supposedly inspired by Clements, and there's also the mild peril which can be associated with most great Disney movies.

There's even Sauncho Smilax (a bracing Benicio Del Toro) to play Panza to Doc's Private D.Q. (Del Toro doesn't figure as much in the film, but in the book his resemblance to another sidekick he played in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is quite pronounced).

Sherlock Holmes has, of course, been everywhere on big and small screens within the last several years — «The Judge» actor Robert Downey Jr. portrayed the detective, with actor Jude Law as his sidekick Watson, in the 2009 movie «Sherlock Holmes» and the 2011 sequel «Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows,» while actor Benedict Cumberbatch took on the role for the BBC TV series, which is still running, with «Fargo» actor Martin Freeman as Watson.

Wilson is best used in small doses, and although that's clearly not the case here (she gets second billing as Dakota Johnson's wild - child sidekick), if the rest of the cast is able to balance out her tiresome, in - your - face antics, «How to Be Single» could be a pretty decent date movie in a month strangely lacking in Valentine's Day fare.

We learned last year that Johnny Depp would play his sidekick Tonto in the film, but we had not had an official announcement as to who might play the Ranger himself.

After playing comical sidekicks in rom - coms like No Strings Attached and What Happens in Vegas, Lake Bell emerges as a rising - star filmmaker with the smartest, funniest comedy of the year.

Kate Beckinsale does her best, and certainly achieves more as the sidekick than she did as the lead in the awful Underworld; Richard Roxburgh is very over the top in a boring kinda way; and David Wenham is the only person that manages to make the most out of the very limited script they had.

Charlotte Rampling: The Look DVD Review by Kam Williams Documentary Offers Intimate Self - Portrait of Legendary Actress The legendary Charlotte Rampling has been making movies since the mid-Sixties when she first stole scenes as the late Lynn Redgrave's sidekick in Georgy Girl.