Sentences with phrase «cameo worked»

The character randomly popping up for a crazy cameo worked in the past, but here, all he does is turn the story on its head and steal attention from the leading trio.

Similarly, Alice Braga (Isabelle) tries to stand her well gained ground, but usually sees her scenery chewed up by the likes of Walter Coggins (as Stans), Oleg Taktarov (Nikolai), and perhaps most offensively, a loony bin bit of cameo work from Laurence Fishburne.

She was also very effective in her brief cameo work as Cousin Beth in «Buffy the Vampire Slayer».

Not exact matches

Honestly, I thought improvements to some of the hate would have been made after Aaron Blair's father made a cameo last week to discuss how offensive it is when these guys work their ass off every day to be good at their craft and get trashed by their own fans.

In Warrior, the trainers Nick Nolte and Frank Grillo had scene - stealing moments while Redbelt was directed by David Mamet, referenced Gracie and included a cameo from Ray «Boom Boom» Mancini.The recent Roberto Duran (Hands of Stone) and Vinny Pazienza (Bleed for This) biopics worked for me as well due to strong casts (Edgar Ramirez with Robert DeNiro in Hands and Miles Teller with Aaron Eckhart in Bleed).

Giroud will be eased out of the team just like Mert... IF we buy Morata, or Icardi, Giroud will lead the attack for like 5 - 10 games into the season if he is in good form... then the new striker will start with cameos... Giroud for his price alone is more than enough back up for us, and then his hardwork... if we sell him just like that we will be back to square one, depending on the new striker to quickly hit the ground running may or may not work!

Let us just hope that he is THE CF we have been dying for years now.But that little cameo on thursday was all positive.Calm, composed, hard work and above all making intelligent runs at the right time in the box.I just pray this is just a TRAILER and there is much more to come from our record signing.

The midfielder impressed in his cameo, and he could have worked his way back in to the team for this weekend's game.

Bloomberg, who has worked with the Independence Party in an unsuccessful push for nonpartisan elections in New York, did not attend, but made a brief cameo by video to congratulate the group and one of their leaders, Jackie Salit, for her years of work.

I think they're worth the extra work of cutting them out (or if you have a Silhouette Cameo, it's no work at all!)

I work at Nordstrom and I can tell you that Steve Madden, Vince Cameo and Tory Burch are going to have really cute boots!

They had it all worked out in their minds, all I had to do was take them to the costume store to buy some accessories and then make M&M shirts using my Silhouette Cameo.

I brought out my sleeveless camel coat (similar here and here) and wore it with an Everlane top, Cameo skirt, Tibi Amber heels, and my favorite work bag, the Michael Kors Miranda tote (also here.)

I love Cameo - I worked for them at fashion week here in Australia and the designers are the most down to earth people EVER.

As they begin to convert their modest Long Island home into a white statue - laden mansion, the first order of business is to construct a haunted house for Halloween to impress their working - class neighbors, who are portrayed by movie stars and comedians in cameo roles.

The steady cavalcade of cameo appearances, coupled with the inclusion of a few genuinely funny comedic set - pieces, prevents the movie from becoming an all - out bore, admittedly, yet it's worth noting that both Carell and Fey's small - screen work is, by and large, far more entertaining than anything within Date Night's appreciatively short running time.

McConaughey and Keitel are fun to watch, even when they don't have much to work with, and they get strong support from a pair of cameos — Bill Paxton as Tyler's hard - bitten captain and David Keith as the straight - talking Marine who masterminds the raid.

As for the Tyson cameo — it works in the trailer and really sells the movie, but once you've seen it, it does nt really work so well in the final movie.

The film works up to a totally conventional ending: It's never much of a comedy or an exploration of the phone - sex phenomenon, and it often seems to be just an excuse for Madonna, John Turturro, Quentin Tarantino and other Lee pals to make cameo appearances and mug for the camera.

Plenty of the tasteless gags don't fly, and for every celebrity cameo that works (a hilariously heavenly Reese Witherspoon), there are two or three that crash and burn.

Unusual in its ambition to pose deep spiritual questions, but its enticing surfaces — including the beautiful working girls and Isabelle Adjani's surprise cameo as a Bardot-esque starlet — are the best thing about it.

Based on the Marvel comic by Stan Lee (who makes a cameo as he does in all the films based on his work), it picks up the story of those cosmic - rayed superheroes dealing with the end of the world and a fifth attempt at a wedding.

There's fun to be had in spotting Udo Kier, Ken Foree, and Brad Dourif in cameo roles (meanwhile, Zombie's standard company returns, his wife Sheri Moon turning in a wonderful performance as our bogeyman's stripper mommy), but it's distracting as well, almost too much like a rib - chucker (think The Howling — and sure enough, there's Dee Wallace as the adoptive mother of hero girl Laurie (Scout Taylor - Compton, also attached to an upcoming April Fool's Day remake)-RRB- that only ever really worked when John Landis gave it a shot with An American Werewolf in London.

Three dance sequences exist in a vacuum (testing the sequel maxim that if one of something works in the first, three of that same something must work better in the second), Barrymore proves that she can't act in not one but three languages, and Jaclyn Smith turns in what may be the most bizarre self - referential cameo in recent history.

During this recent interview to discuss the TV version of Zombieland, co-creators and executive producers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick talked about the journey from TV series to movie and now back to TV pilot, what it's been like to work with Amazon, what motivated the decision to have the same characters from the movie on the TV show, how they envision it as a road show, how much gore they can have, what Kirk Ward (who was originally cast as Tallahassee before being replaced by Woody Harrelson) brings to this version of the character, what led them to the 30 - minute format, whether they could have any surprise cameos (Bill Murray made a very memorable one in the film), what will determine whether the pilot is successful enough to go to series, and when they might know if they're picked up.

Needless to say, it's overwritten, carefully enunciated in the hollow cadence of an M. Night Shyamalan supernatural soaper, and gruellingly mawkish in a ridiculous visit to one of those sanatoriums where Sissy Spacek appears in a hilarious cameo (channelling Carrie screen mom Piper Laurie's feverish religiosity), telling Rachel to be a good mommy and kill her possessed kiddo because, hell, that worked so great with bad seed Samara, right?

Director Kirk Thatcher, the punk - rocker Spock dispatches in Star Trek IV, brings enough wit to the table to counterbalance the substandard voice work (Steve Whitmire and Eric Jacobson in place of Henson and Frank Oz) and embarrassing embedded commercial announcements for NBC that include a cameo by the entire cast of «Scrubs».

The voice acting makes an impact, including great cameos from Stanley Tucci (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire), Lake Bell (In A World), Patrick Warburton (Movie 43) and Mel Brooks (in his first film work since The Producers remake).

There's a lot of cameo appearances in the film that McDonagh drops in here and there to remind you of his distinctive vision for the film and every single one of them works.

That it works as well as it does is largely thanks to Gosling, who carries Blade Runner 2049 around on his shoulders (Ford himself is more of a glorified cameo than a co-star) and does spectacular work holding K's internal conflicts in right up until the seams to show.

Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington - Whitely, John Turturro, Patrick Dempsey, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Tyrese Gibson, Josh Duhamel, Alan Tudyk, Ken Jeong, Kevin Dunn, Julie White Voice Work: Peter Cullen, Hugo Weaving, Leonard Nimoy, James Remar Cameo: Buzz Aldrin, Bill O'Reilly Director: Michael Bay Screenplay: Ehren Kruger Review published July 21, 2011

McGrath would not write with Allen again, although they would work together with McGrath taking on several cameo roles, starting with Celebrity (1998).

Because I had parents who thrived at working with interesting filmmakers, I was raised to understand that if you get five scenes in a Peter Bogdanovich film or a cameo with Robert Altman, you don't do the lead in the teen movie.

Dave Atell (Comedy Central's «Insomniac») makes a funny cameo, and it's also occasionally amusing to see Bill Pullman participating in the proceedings, since he was in one of the films that's roundly parodied here («The Grudge»), but he isn't given much to work with.

And while The Muppets have worked with real - life celebrities from the start of their TV series days, the number of A-list cameos in «MMW» breaks the bank.

Even Ragnarok works in an awkward cameo for Doctor Strange.

So many ideas and gags crash into each other that some are bound to miss, and there are one or two patchy spells, but it's in the melding of styles that Dodgeball works, as director Rawson Marshall Thurber blends character - based comedy with gross - out and an excellent deployment of cameos (Norris!

Alfre Woodard has a knowing cameo as a planter's mistress who schools Solomon in the reality for genteel female slaves: submitting to lust is less onerous than backbreaking work in the fields (Patsey escapes neither).

Audio Commentary * — Directors John Musker and Ron Clements discuss their history of working with Disney, the origin of their ideas for Moana, the animation process, last - minute story changes, and how they got Troy Polamalu (former safety for the Pittsburgh Steelers) to make a voice cameo in the film.

Removing voice - over work, shorts, and uncredited cameos, Streep has received 21 nominations out of 54 performances.

The cinematography was by Bernard Knowles (who had worked with Hitchcock on Sabotage) and features one of the director's trademark cameo appearances: Hitchcock and the screenwriter Charles Bennett can be seen walking past a bus that Robert Donat and Lucie Mannheim board outside a London music hall.

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.

Amy's mindset is challenged when she's assigned to profile Aaron (Bill Hader, «The Skeleton Twins»), a sports doctor with a very famous clientele — seemingly an excuse to work in cameos by Tony Romo, Amar» e Stoudemire, Chris Evert and Marv Albert.

It appears that the movie is going for an update on the 1980 teen drama «My Bodyguard» — they even include a sweet cameo to underscore that point — and when the movie focuses on the horrors the boys face from all angles (Wade's parents think he's spending his money on drugs), it works surprisingly well.

They find not only a great cameo for Marvel veteran Stan Lee, they also work the gag as an excuse for the superhero equivalent of a throwback jersey.

Solid look at how the X-Men came to be - Stellar Cameos - January Jones looks rockin» in go - go boots Cons: - The original X-Men were not used - Some of the dumbest characters were chosen for this film - Azazel» action sequences couldn't hold a light to Nightcrawler» in X2 - The action overall felt held back and the film lacked any «real» edge - The ending was too predictable and too conveniently wrapped up Impressions: Matthew Vaughn is an incredible director and Brian Singer has done solid work with this material.

When trying to find a sperm donor fails to work — including a truly uncomfortable visit to Tom Brady's house in the middle of the night in one of the film's many celebrity cameos — they try to adopt.

Munn also talked about her cameo in «Ocean's Eight» and working with «X-Men: Dark Phoenix» director Simon Kinberg.

Co-creators and executive producers Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer are back with season four of Broad City, which has become a hilarious showcase for female friendships in addition to being a place that's hosted a number of kick - ass female cameos, including Alia Shawkat, Cynthia Nixon, Kelly Ripa, Patricia Clarkson, Rachel Dratch, Tracee Ellis Ross and Hillary Clinton, «The extraordinary experience of not only working with two stupidly funny people — it's not even right how funny they are — but on top of that, they are women and they also write and produce and edit and do all of that stuff on their show.

The role isn't just a flashy cameo like Robert Downey Jr. «s over-the-top portrayal of Carl's wife's other ex-husband, but rather, Johansson is working with a layered supporting player that in no way relies on a famous face, but rather honesty and how she enhances our main man.