Sentences with phrase «as stacked a cast»

Few movies this awards season have as stacked a cast as «Collateral Beauty.»

Not exact matches

There are pies - as - decor stacked high in cases on the sides of the stage and slices eaten by the ensemble (one, bacon - blueberry, is surprisingly salty - sweet amazing)-- with one sugar - free pie for an older cast member, and yes, a few fake pies here and there, though good luck pointing out which is which.

Tom Hanks watches over the whole thing, playing Bradlee as a salty pirate who plunders for scoops, while the rest of the stacked cast — from Sarah Paulson Jesse Plemons, and Zach Woods, to Bob Odenkirk as star reporter Ben Bagdikian — each strike the right note of theatrical sincerity.

The film's cast is stacked; Ben Affleck, Chris Cooper, Tommy Lee Jones, Kevin Costner, Craig T. Nelson and Maria Bello, but with no fault of their own, the film as a whole does not seem to hit emotionally.

Taking place a fair bit on Studio backlots with all the hustle and bustle and politics, it will come as no surprise that the cast, is ridiculously stacked.

Allen stacks the deck by both casting Gil's fiancé Inez (Rachel McAdams) as his materialistic - harpy opposite, and by giving her a transparent perfect match in pseudo-intellectual blowhard Paul (Michael Sheen).

But with these two movies — one set against the backdrop of the movie biz, the other in the music scene — shooting last year back - to - back, we can only imagine the unbelievable stack of footage Malick's teams of editors are sorting through, as they cut half the cast out and help him find the movie and tone he wants.

The movie is also stacked with a phenomenal supporting cast — in addition to Mulligan, it features a stellar supporting performance from Albert Brooks as a pragmatic sociopath, and phenomenal smaller turns from Bryan Cranston and Christina Hendricks.

As a result, the stacked cast makes one see the actors and actresses themselves instead of the characters they are trying to portray.

Also, the cast is absolutely stacked with Oscar - winner Vikander, Jones and the always entertaining Cassel entering the series (presumably as Bourne's antagonists).

Meanwhile, the game itself looks to be stacked up pretty well against the competition as its supposed to have a much more open world than previous Lego games, tons of disguises, a lot more vehicles to use than in other games, great voiceover cast, and a great story line.

She also manages a hell of a cast, stacked with character actor heavyweights (including Bell herself) such as Fred Melamed, Ken Marino, Michaela Watkins, Rob Corddry, Demetri Martin, Tig Notaro, Nick Offerman and Alexandra Holden (with notable cameos from Eva Longoria and Geena Davis).

The film stacked the deck for success by modeling itself on a number of recent hits as it borrowed from J. J. Abrams» Star Trek, in that it was a reset of the franchise, and from The Avengers (and Fast & Furious), in that it is a team - up movie that brings together cast members from previous films.

The cast and crew are stacked with veteran talent, including editor Hughes Winborne and co-star Mykelti Williamson as Troy's brother.

He joins a stacked cast including Boseman as lead character T'Challa aka the Black Panther, Lupita Nyong» o and Danai Gurira.

Matt Damon is perfectly cast as the Everyman astronaut forced to «science the shit» out of his seemingly impossible predicament, while the supporting cast — including Jeff Daniels, Chiwetel Ejifor and Jessica Chastain — is absolutely stacked with talent.

Also, the cast is pretty much stacked with talent, including Anya Taylor - Joy, who has proven to be an incredible actress at a young age with her performance in «The Witch» and whose role as the AI in question should be suitably captivating.

The already stacked cast of Black Panther just got even better, as Marvel revealed on Thursday that The People v. O.J. Simpson and This Is Us star Sterling K. Brown will be appearing in Wakanda as well.

Based upon Harold Gray's popular comic strip «Little Orphan Annie,» the Depression - era story revolved around an optimistic moppet, her dog Sandy and her benefactor, billionaire Oliver «Daddy» Warbucks.Updated to the present with a multicultural cast, the sassy, spunky tyke (Quvenzhane Wallis) is temporarily adopted by a cynical cellphone mogul, Will Stacks (Jamie Foxx), as a ploy for voter appeal when he runs for Mayor of New York City.

The supporting cast is stacked, with Six Feet Under «s Patricia Clarkson as Camille's mom and Mindy Project alum Chris Messina as a local detective.

A fourteenth - century correspondence with a minister of the Republic of Venice is stacked before him, weighted with a small casting Michelangelo did as a study for his horned Moses, and in front of the inkstand, a laptop computer with on - line research capability through the University of Milan.

The tanks will need to taunt off each other after every few Eyes of the Empress casts, as if it reaches five stacks, her current target will be charmed and deal a lot of damage to the raid.

Other artists haven't fared as well, their works either compromised by the space (Rachel Whiteread's Embankment, stacks of cast cardboard boxes that lacked the emotional punch a smaller space would have provided) or flawed by choosing to square up to its epic scale.

Shipping containers can be stacked empty up to 16 containers high because the corner castings and corner posts are so strong; everything else is much lighter, and the corrugated sides act as a monocoque shell to hold up the top.