Sentences with phrase «good cameo by»

It's a considerably funnier movie than its predecessor, thanks in large part to Kat Dennings (who returns as Jane's intern), the always - amiable Chris O'Dowd (who shows up as a decidedly underpowered rival for Jane's affections), and a sneaky - good cameo by Chris Evans, a.k.a. Captain America.

Not exact matches

The Rochester, N.Y. company, best known for its line of head - mounted video eyewear favored by soldiers and gamers (as well as a 2009 cameo on The Oprah Winfrey Show), launched its own smart glasses at the end of 2013.

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).

Today, Kronthaler continued the kind of theatrics he's indulged since his appointment in 2016 (past gags include a modelling cameo by Dame Viv herself), this time deploying a trio of thrashing Go - Go dancers whose performance, many will attest, may very well have stolen the show.

The inclusion of an absurd yet thoroughly captivating celebrity cameo, which essentially stands as a high point within the entire series, perpetuates Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb's better - than - expected third - act atmosphere, although, unfortunately, director Shawn Levy ensures that the film concludes with a whimper by offering up an excessively sappy final stretch that just goes on and on - with this underwhelming climax confirming the movie's place as an almost passable concluding entry in a seriously forgettable trilogy.

There is also the occasional sly moment, including a very brief cameo by ABBA's Benny Andersson as well as a very funny reference to the ancient dramatic trope of the Greek Chorus.

By the time Laurence Fishburne pops up in a pitch - perfect (which is to say: completely insane) cameo, you're already so far into the ride that his presence just adds one more upside - down twist to this already loopy roller coaster of well - executed camp.

Even with cameo appearances by Seann William Scott, Snoop Dogg and a genuinely funny bit by Andy Dick, it shouldn't be easy to mess up a standard frat versus the college template but Old School makes its best effort!

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.

Its a good premise - road rip with extra Icelandic - Japanese culture clash - the scenery is stunning, the lead actor plays a nice mixture of confusion and adaption, and there's a cameo by Seijun Suzuki as the wise old grandfather.

... Ryan Reynolds took to Twitter yesterday to announce that filming on February's Deadpool movie is complete, as well as thanking fans for their help in dragging the project out of development hell, while he also teased a possible cameo appearance by Hugh Jackman's Wolverine, stating that: «God, I hope so.

He's well supported by Michael Fassbender's and Benedict Cumberbatch's very different slave owners, the heartbreaking Lupita Nyong» o as a fellow slave, and Brad Pitt in a key cameo.

Downey hasn't been back in 15 years and he left more than a few loose ends in his wake, including an old girlfriend (played in an extended cameo by Rosario Dawson), a bitterly disappointed father, and a troubled best friend doing time at Rikers.

Comic legend Stan Lee has notched an appearance in pretty much every Marvel movie so far; Deadpool 2, which was produced by Marvel Entertainment, recently notched one of the best cameo moments in superhero history when Brad Pitt showed up for approximately two seconds in a funny, blink - and - you'll - miss - it role.

There are a few cameos by»80s icons but, well, these same actors have been doing that for years now so it's no longer much of a treat to see them.

Other smaller roles are inhabited with great effect by Poots (smoking hot intensity), Fischer (surprisingly convincing and dramatic), and Olivia Thirlby (really just a cameo, but a good one).

Will Ferrell as Kevin: Many movies should be judged by how well they can top Will Ferrell's cameos.

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.

And the iconic Yoda wins Best Cameo for his appearance in «Star Wars: The Last Jedi» (and that certainly can't be considered a spoiler by now).

(Well, the one legally binding marriage: I should cite here a hilarious cameo by Jason Schwartzman as a renegade scoutmaster with a weakness for performing age - inappropriate matrimonies.)

The acting in Forgetting Sarah Marshall is very good and is done by a very talented cast of mostly television actors with a sprinkling of cameos from a few of the Judd Apatow crew (Jonah Hill, Paul Rudd, Bill Hader).

Suicide Squad is the third official film in the DC Extended Universe, a bit tangential to what's come before, save for a couple of Superman / Aquaman references, as well as the appearance of Bruce Wayne / Batman (Affleck, Gone Girl) and a cameo by The Flash to remind us there's more going on in the world than just what's surrounding this new cast of super-powered characters.

«Big Eyes» is graced by a potentially award - winning performance from Amy Adams, arguably the cutest actress in Hollywood today, in the role of a woman who now, at the age of 87, is alive and well and is shown in a brief cameo as well as in an epilogue.

There are also cameos by a half - dozen WWE wrestlers that are quite funny: Chris Jericho smoothly handles an overly homoerotic exchange with Forte, while The Big Show (that's how he's billed, folks) may be part of one of the best visual gags in the film.

During a party scene where we get our first good look at Art3mis, we're treated to a cameo appearance by Commander Shepard from «Mass Effect» and Blanka from «Street Fighter» (nope, we're not done with those yet).

J.K. Simmons brings his J. Jonah Jameson performance from the Spider - Man movies, in what seems a disappointing lack of range, but cameos by Adam Brody, Sam Elliott, Katie Holmes, Lowe, William H. Macy, Kim Dickens and Robert Duvall are all performed well.

Even worse is the sudden drop - off in the main storyline — which has Don exploring the dirty rumors behind the Cody plant one minute, and then completely MIA the next — as well as the random cameos by big name talents like Ethan Hawke, Bruce Willis and Kris Kristofferson, whose presences feel far too gimmicky to be taken seriously.

This trailer, with nice cameos by Doug Jones and Bruce Thomas, makes it look like it could be a pretty good film, but man is it going to be brutally violent, that is for sure.

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.

Long - time Hitchcock collaborator Bernard Herrmann provides the score and has a brief cameo, and the film won an Academy Award for Best Song for «Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera),» sung by Doris Day.

There are also good performances from supporting characters Miranda Richardson (The Bachelor, Merlin), Lisa Marie (Burton's wife, who has a habit of showing up in small roles in his films), Michael Gough (Alfred from the Batman movies), Ian McDiarmid (Restoration), Christopher Walken (Blast From the Past, The Rose Hotel), an unbilled cameo by Martin Landau, Jeffrey Jones (Ravenous, Stuart Little), and a surprising decent Caspar Van Dien (The Omega Code, Starship Troopers), probably because the amount of spoken time allotted to his character was kept at a minimum.

In a hilarious cameo by Robert Downey Jr. playing Inez's other ex-husband, Casper is offered a food truck and he decides to finally go into business for himself making the food he does best: cuban sandwiches.

Alas, the presence of Gillen (a.k.a. «Littlefinger») and a cameo by Michael McElhatton («Roose Bolton») principally serve as reminders that one's time would be better spent watching reruns of Game of Thrones.

Both approaches yield their share of funny stuff, bolstered by good casting that ranges from Judy Greer and Bobby Cannavale as, respectively, Lang's ex-wife and her cop fiancé, to cameos from Gregg Turkington and the voice of Tom Kenny.

Losing their soon - to - be-wed best friend during a drunken adventure, the three groomsmen - played by Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and Zach Galifianakis - attempt to retrace their steps and hilarity ensues, boosted by a surprise cameo of Mike Tyson.

Although a certain cameo appearance in Thor has been well and truly leaked on the interwebs, the recent snafu featuring everyone's favourite Australian film critic Jim Schembri makes this critic more wary of explicitly stating the who or why, but let's just say that a brief appearance by another character from The Avengers occurs and it isn't in the now - obligatory post-credit sequence featuring Samuel L. Jackson.

But somewhere around the 1990s, his fiction films started to get soft and fat, distended by cameos and travel - guide backdrops — the kind of stuff that had spun his best films, but now lacked a motor of ambition.

**** Zachary F November 29, 2012 this movie is sooo funny Jon C November 29, 2012 a fun, crude, and hilarious comedy two girl roomates formulate a plan to make their own sex hotline in order to make ends meet hijinks and raw laughs ensue between two very different people who embrace their sexuality via telephone the performances from both Graynor and Miller are pretty damn fun to watch the dialogue is insanely funny and gratuitous there's a very strange cameo in here too by Nia Vardalos Justin Long adds a nice touch being the supporting gay best friend mentoring these two girls it's just very awkwardly humorous listening to these people talk in this kind of film, there's interestingly no actual sex happening on screen, no boobs, no ass, no exposed body parts the plot mainly focuses on the bonding relationship bewteen the two leads which is a good break from the usual norm we're used to I can't help but feel though that the filmmakers didn't have anything left at the end, some of it felt unfinished and unresolved for all those problems, «For A Good Time, Call..&ragood break from the usual norm we're used to I can't help but feel though that the filmmakers didn't have anything left at the end, some of it felt unfinished and unresolved for all those problems, «For A Good Time, Call..&raGood Time, Call..»

Ensemble cast includes Kevin Hart, Taraji P. Henson, Michael Ealy, Meagan Good, Gabrielle Union and Morris Chestnut, with cameos by Wendy Williams, Sherri Shepherd, Chris Brown and Ron Artest.

A few hilarious cameos pop up here and there as well, including James Franco as himself, Justin Long (not as himself), Jamie Lee Curtis as a high powered attorney (and potential employer) and a hilarious bit by Kristen Bell hubby, Dax Shepard.

Other omissions are painful but understandable: the extravagant, stuttering queen Anthony Blanche has been reduced to a cameo; young Cordelia barely registers; Ryder's father, played by John Gielgud on TV, has lost his best scenes.

For good measure there is a brief cameo by Antoine Dodson, he of «hide your kids, hide your wife» viral notoriety and listed in the credits as «YouTube Guy.»

The Saturday Night Live star's bouts of physical comedy — as well as pleasantly distracting cameos by the likes of Andy Richter, Kyle Gass, and The Station Agent's Peter Dinklage as a star children's author — spackle over the bland plot enough to keep Elf moving, until the film succumbs to overwrought third - act plot machinations.

Richard Attenborough: an escaped lunatic in A Bridge Too Far (1977) John Carpenter: his longest cameo appearance was as Bennett in The Fog (1980) Terry Gilliam: directed himself in bit roles in Jabberwocky (1977), Brazil (1985), and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988); he also directed himself as a member of the Monty Python troupe in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), and The Meaning of Life (1983) Ron Howard: small cameo roles in Night Shift (1982), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), and A Beautiful Mind (2001) Lawrence Kasdan: Devo's (River Phoenix) lawyer in I Love You To Death (1990) Elia Kazan: Mortuary Assistant in Panic in the Streets (1950) Stephen King: in his lone directorial effort Maximum Overdrive (1986) Spike Lee: cameos (and some larger roles) in many of his own films, including: She's Got ta Have It (1986), School Daze (1988), Do the Right Thing (1989), Mo» Better Blues (1990), Jungle Fever (1991), Malcolm X (1992), Crooklyn (1994), Clockers (1995), Girl 6 (1996), Summer of Sam (1999), and 3 A.M. (2001) Terrence Malick: an unexpected visitor at door, with blueprints, in Badlands (1973)- credited as «Caller at Rich Man's House» Robert Redford: the Narrator in A River Runs Through It (1992) Rob Reiner: a helicopter pilot in Misery (1990) M. Night Shyamalan: Dr. Hill at the hospital in The Sixth Sense (1999), a Stadium drug dealer in Unbreakable (2000), deadly driver Ray Reddy in Signs (2002), and Guard at Desk in The Village (2004) Steven Soderbergh: small cameo roles in Schizopolis (1996), Ocean's Eleven (2001) Oliver Stone: an officer with a phone in his hand in a US base's bunker when it is blown up by a suicide bomber in Platoon (1986)

When Mickey Rourke makes a cameo as a grieving father, one is taken out of the movie by the shock of seeing Rourke playing a teary, sensitive guy, regardless of how well he plays the part.

However, by Spider - Man: Homecoming they had reconciled, with Paltrow making a cameo, signaling better times — and likely a wedding ceremony — ahead for the MCU's power couple.

Thurber ups the interest level by stuffing the picture with crazy cameos, and recasting Best in Show's Jim Piddock - Fred Willard double - act with a straight - faced Gary Cole and an amusingly zoned - out Jason Bateman.

Fortunately the characters have our sympathy as these are good - hearted people who have clearly paid the price for the mistakes they've made in the past, though Nancy is the more interesting character as all we get for a backstory concerning Jack is an all - too - brief cameo by Olivia Williams as his bitter ex-wife.

Even if the entire rhythm isn't quite there, the moments pile up over the six episodes I've seen, including an amazing audition by Rudd, phony phone call by Ken Marino, and cameo by Weird Al Yankovic as the best hypnotist in the world.