Sentences with phrase «cameo actor in a film»

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Trees Lounge was cast with several of the actors specifically in mind and, on the whole, the film is populated with friends of Buscemi's and a wealth of cameo appearances.

Handsomely mounted by Creed director Ryan Coogler and starring an enviable slate of black actors that makes cameoing comics godhead Stan Lee almost seem lost, the film is provocative and satisfying in ways that are long overdue, like its ornate, culturally dense production design and the deeper subtexts of honor, compassion and destiny.

Perhaps fewer will recognize Batman animated voice actor Kevin Conroy in a cameo, or have any knowledge of Anthrax «s song «I'm the Man,» a cover of which opens the film.

Sure, they may have popped up in the odd film to give a solid dramatic performance, or cameo in a comedy, but the real magic from seeing these actors on - screen just is not the same anymore.

It's revealed that Gibson was in town for just a week filming his scenes, but the actor's role is certainly more than just a mere cameo.

But by bringing in a host of cameo performances, all with silly foreign accents (Ashley Judd as a photographer sporting a Russian accent as if she's from Kentucky and the Australian actor Geoffrey Rush as Trotsky, who is never able to overcome sounding more Australian than Russian), it took away from the film's energy and left it stuck in the usual banality reserved for such Hollywood biopics.

Later in the film, a cameo from Johnny Depp is liberating for both the sublime character actor inside of Depp (who has been sinking in wretched tentpole pictures) and the helter - skelter mood.

A rumor has been circling Lucasfilm's Rogue One for over a year and that is a cameo of Han Solo, actor Alden Ehrenreich was recently cast in the role for his own anthology film directed by Chris Miller and Phil Lord.

Except for a well - staged scene depicting the attack on the marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the best scenes in «Selma» are the small - scale ones: Oprah Winfrey (also one of the film's producers) as an bedraggled activist denied the opportunity to vote; a scene where King's wife, Coretta (Carmen Ejogo), confronts him about his philandering; a cameo involving the father (portrayed by that marvelous actor Henry G. Sanders) of a murdered man in Selma.

Though Christian Bale and Robert Duvall are capable dramatic actors, the one can not be expected to be a magician, and the other can not be expected to carry a film in a cameo capacity.

He is one of our most talented and versatile actors working today, and we are lucky to have him, even when he shows up for terrible cameos in otherwise superb films.

I must also mention that I enjoyed the notable actors that made cameo appearances in the film such as Megan Mullally as Brent's Mom, Rebecca Gayheart as Tanner's Mom, and Natasha Lyonne as Ms. Hoegel.

The rest are of the supplements are just grace notes: a relaxed interview with actor Rod Taylor, a tribute to «The Original Inglorious Bastards» with director Enzo Castellari and actor Bo Svenson (who both make cameo's in QT's film), a mock - featurette on «The Making of Nation's Pride» (with the performers all in character — Eli Roth has a blast playing the sneering autocratic German auteur of this «lost» classic of Nazi propaganda cinema) and montages showing the playfulness of QT and his cast and crew on the set.

Sure, some of these actors are going to get little more than glorified cameos, but as long as that is made clear in the advertising of this film, then that shouldn't become a problem.

The result, U-Turn, is a derivative, trite noir that resembles better films and better stories, with Stone trying his best to distract you from that sameness by dangling lots of flashy things and big name actors in small cameos resulting in a melted banana split; very colorful with no substance whatsoever.

The film's ensemble also includes Aisha Tyler as Feng's blowdart wielding henchwoman, along with Reno: 911's Kerri Kenney, veteran character actor David Koechner and Terry Crews, a buff crowd - pleaser who seems to be asked to flex his pecs in his every cameo nowadays.

This unusual film — which includes actors discussing their characters and a cameo by Noyce himself — bears witness to its director's roots in contemporary theatre, which used similar techniques at the time.

In addition, plenty of celebs made cameo appearances as themselves, such as since incarcerated gangsta» rapper T.I., crooner Tony Bennett, golfer Phil Mickelson, actors Mark Wahlberg and Eric Roberts, and film critic Richard Roeper.

As you can imagine, the film then plays out in a series of gun fights, head smashes, throat punches, car crashes, and cameos by great character actors.

«You know what I can tell you is that my — and we haven't said this yet, but I think this is OK to say — is that my very good friend, the actor Joseph Gordon - Levitt, who was in a movie I made called Looper, he does a cameo as a voice of an alien in the film.

While Antonio Banderas, Penélope Cruz, and Paz Vega all make small cameos, this is an ensemble picture that's seemingly dedicated to the excellent Spanish character actors that have appeared in Pedro Almodóvar's films over the years, perhaps the three most memorable being Javier Cámara from «Talk To Her,» Lola Dueñas from «Volver» and Cecilia Roth from «All About My Mother.»

Rounding out the Blu - ray edition is an interview with actor Rod Taylor about being cast as Winston Churchill, a behind - the - scenes look at «Inglorious Bastards» director Enzo Castellari's cameo in the film, two video montages of on - set antics, and a «Killin» Nazis» trivia game.

Of all the actors and actresses making cameos in this film, Alan Arkin is the only one to ever appear on The Muppet Show, back in 1979.

Although the Irish actor's upcoming film schedule is still packed full of kicked doors, dead scumbags, and people getting took, Neeson has made a few feints in the direction of comedy of late, appearing as the antagonist in Seth MacFarlane's A Million Ways To Die In The West and throwing his gravitas behind the cameo - smorgasbord battle scene in the second Anchorman filin the direction of comedy of late, appearing as the antagonist in Seth MacFarlane's A Million Ways To Die In The West and throwing his gravitas behind the cameo - smorgasbord battle scene in the second Anchorman filin Seth MacFarlane's A Million Ways To Die In The West and throwing his gravitas behind the cameo - smorgasbord battle scene in the second Anchorman filIn The West and throwing his gravitas behind the cameo - smorgasbord battle scene in the second Anchorman filin the second Anchorman film.

An extra enjoyable element comes from the discreet self - reference in the screenwriting: the protagonist has phone conversations with a certain Baciu and a certain Rădulescu; Baciu has a cameo waiting in queue; a couple of likes on the dead girl's Facebook page come from actors credited in the film, and so on.

On Jimmy Kimmel Tonight actor Ewan McGregor comes into talk about his cameo in the film and returning to the role of Obi - Wan Kenobi.

The actor had a cameo in the 2015 «Entourage» film,» in which he showed up as himself.

Director Don Siegel and actor Kevin McCarthy from the 1956 film both appear in great cameos, and Robert Duvall appears in a non-speaking role as a creepy priest on a swing set.

Stereophonics rocker Kelly Jones claims to have landed actor Rhys Ifans for a cameo in his as - yet - untitled film debut after the pair enjoyed a boozy...

«My very good friend, the actor Joseph Gordon - Levitt, who was in a movie I made called Looper, he does a cameo as a voice of an alien in the film,» Johnson said (as recorded by Cinema Today).

Fan - pleasing touches come in the form of dialogue voiced by actors from the Harry Potter films, cameos from beloved characters and allusions to nuggets of Potter trivia.