Sentences with phrase «great as a supporting character»

And while Covert (who has appeared in twelve of Sandler's movies) works great as a supporting character, he's no leading man.

Not exact matches

Youngster who's come through the youth set up, seems to genuinely support the club and is a great character, yet we've never really taken to him as well as we should.

Britanny Murphy, who was great in Girl, Interrupted, adds a real spark as Rabbit's love interest, adding it to her impressive roster of compellingly fractured supporting characters.

Nolte is OK in a part that affords him very little to build a character from, Robert Shaw does a dialled - down version of his salty dog Quint from Jaws, and the great character actor Eli Wallach appears in a supporting role as an old drunk who plays both sides.

The rest of the cast are uniformly great, from Campbell Scott as the lead to a rich supporting cast of character actors - including a well written woman's role (shock!)

Great support is given by Sasha Lane (American Honey breakout Sasha Lane), Forrest Goodluck (the «Native American David Bowie») and Emily Skeggs (as Cameron's roommate), all of whom are fully fleshed characters who find empathy and validation within themselves.

Liam James is great as the heart of the story, managing to portray an understated awkwardness and pain, but with his character remaining shy for large parts of proceedings, it is the supporting cast of offbeat characters who help bring the spark to the film.

As Howard, the great John Goodman creates one of the most chilling screen personalities in recent memory; having spent the last decade energising support parts in Argo, The Artist, Flight and Inside Llewellyn Davis, the actor gets to dominate a film with subtle, multi-tiered character work.

With Near Dark, the great Kathryn Bigelow (K - 19: The Widowmaker) made her solo directorial debut, and managed to emphasize the relationships between the characters while using the gory showstoppers as support (it's violence simultaneously at its most beautiful and horrific).

The supporting cast is what makes it watchable after all these years with the likes of Margot Kidder, Jackie Cooper, Glenn Ford, Gene Hackman, and Marlon f**king Brando giving great performances as classic characters like Lois Lane, Perry White, Jonathan Kent, Lex Luthor, and Jor - El.

Among supporting players, Alfre Woodward has one great scene as a gossipy, highly intelligent, exalted lady among slaves, and she makes you wish the movie had a few more character sketches like hers among the lashings.

Daniel Wu as Lu Ren worked as a supporting character to Lara; funny at moments, he facilitates a great character dynamic.

Nina Dobrev and Alia Shawkat were great supporting characters while Taissa Farmiga was great as the film's lead.

The great character actors of the Warner Bros. stock company fill in the supporting roles, with Ginger Rogers in a memorable role as the gold - digging chorine known as «Anytime Annie,» Una Merkel as her chorus girl buddy, and Ned Sparks as a wise guy investor dropping wry remarks with a cynical sneer.

Additionally, Eckhart (boasting a mustache worthy of its own billing) offers great support as Sully's first officer, while the ensemble of character actors like Mike O'Malley, Chris Bauer, Ann Cusack and Jamey Sheridan lend an authenticity to the project that you wouldn't get with bigger names.

He's a figure of great notoriety, and has been represented in film several times previous to the Richardson version, including the 1906 silent film The Story of the Kelly Gang and a 1960 Australian television version starring Ken Goodlet as Kelly, who makes an appearance as a supporting character here (amidst a healthy mix of other Australian character actors, including Bill Hunter and Frank Thring).

In a supporting role, the great character actor Raymond Massey has a juicy villain part as an evil psychiatrist running a Nazi spy ring.

Helmed by Ron Howard (after taking over for the fired Phil Lord and Chris Miller), «Solo: A Star Wars Story» features Alden Ehrenreich as the beloved title character, with a great supporting cast that includes Emilia Clarke, Donald Glover, Woody Harrelson, among others.

Directed by Ron Howard (taking over for Phil Lord and Chris Miller), «Solo: A Star Wars Story» features Alden Ehrenreich as the title character, with a great supporting cast that includes Emilia Clarke, Donald Glover, Woody Harrelson, and more.

Not only the main characters are likeably, but the supporting cast is great as well.

There is a lot more character building, especially for Thor and it helps when you have a great supporting cast such as Loki, as the two brothers continue their on - off feud and love - hate relationship with each other.

Dan Stevens isn't exactly stretching his acting muscles here, whilst Austin Stowell and Tim Blake Nelson are great as one - note supporting characters.

With his perpetual scowl in full effect, «The Rock» could have single - handedly carried this entire film; however, with a great supporting character played by Billy Bob Thornton as a washed up, drugged out, cowboy cop, he didn't need to.

The Mexican setting looks great while a stellar supporting cast give it their all, even if — as in Theron's case — their character's schtick grows tiresome.

A great deal of the latter two elements is provided by the less crucial supporting characters, particularly the late Peter Boyle as a clueless cabby acquaintance of Travis's, and comedian Albert Brooks as an Albert Brooks - like campaign worker.

Her character was great because Shane Black has a knack at writing parts for kids that make them equal to adults, not support them as evidence with movies like The Monster Squad and Last Action Hero.

Logan Marshall - Green turns in great work as the title character, and Peter Mullan and Damon Herriman offer good support as two of Quarry's criminal associates.

She isn't great yet with characters on the periphery — Bill is a one - dimensional corporate bad guy / insensitive husband, and it's depressing to see the great Chloë Sevigny cast in a generic role as Owen's mom — but Amos, Diane, and Owen are all vivid and credible enough to support a less - hokey, more rough - hewn narrative.

Formerly known as the South Carolina Character Development Partnership, PCC has established a limited liability company in order to expand the scope of activities: to provide interdisciplinary and integrated learning activities for students; to support teachers, administrators, and other staff in implementing character education initiatives; and to deliver information to the greater school community which will serve to increase sensitivity, cooperation, and understanding of both moral and performance cCharacter Development Partnership, PCC has established a limited liability company in order to expand the scope of activities: to provide interdisciplinary and integrated learning activities for students; to support teachers, administrators, and other staff in implementing character education initiatives; and to deliver information to the greater school community which will serve to increase sensitivity, cooperation, and understanding of both moral and performance ccharacter education initiatives; and to deliver information to the greater school community which will serve to increase sensitivity, cooperation, and understanding of both moral and performance charactercharacter.

Although they could be going for the same character as another one of their peers they still show great support for their friends and wish them good luck when it comes for their time.

With interesting supporting characters, Miller's play will live on and on as a stirring depiction of one great American story.

- for Sonic's 25th anniversary last year, Iizuka received a task to deliver some sort of product - the target was «dormant fans» who used to play the SEGA Genesis, but haven't really played any games since - Iizuka met Christian Whitehead, which lead to the creation of Sonic Mania - there was talk of another port, but Iizuka thought fans would desire something new from the old games - this is the first time Iizuka partnered with a team of devs spread across various countries - Iizuka said this team had a greater passion to create - this was in comparison to companies that set decisions on a pre-determined schedule (in meetings, etc)- the team had so many features they still wanted to add after the beta version was complete - since there were only a few spots with text that needed to be localized, they could bring the game to more places quicker - the game has Japanese, English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish support - the Studiopolis stage is included due to receiving the most requests from the Sonic Mania development team - Iizuka actually considered reducing the amount of stages at one point in order to meet the development schedule - Sonic Mania doesn't really have much in the way of cut content like scrapped stages - since Sonic Mania was only distributed digitally, the team was able to continue working very close leading up to launch - this let them put in practically all ideas, and there are currently no plans for DLC - Iizuka recommended Flying Battery Zone for inclusion becaues he likes the music - he also likes when the player goes inside and outside the ship - Iizuka likes Mirage Saloon because the stage structure will be different depending on the player character chosen - Puyo Puyo gameplay was added because there was a Puyo Puyo game released in the west for the SEGA Genesis - this game was originally called «Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine», and the team thought it would make a fun boss battle - Iizuka didn't have plans to feature Blue Sphere in the special stages - the Blue Sphere special stages were brought over to Mania as a test, but ended up staying for the final game - the team felt the need to continuously connect stages from various eras, which is doe with the Phantom Ruby story - for Sonic Mania, it was decided that the technological limit would be set at SEGA CD, - this is higher than the Genesis but lower than Saturn - in creating a SEGA CD - grade special stage, they would intentionally make SEGA CD - grade polygons

The presentation of the game is solid with a great user interface across various menus such as the main menu, character gallery menus, options menus and various gameplay menus with support for navigation via the left analogue stick, directional pad, face buttons and touch pad, although there is no support for navigation via the right analogue stick.

The supporting cast is equally as great along with a very strong villain character that you just love to hate.

The presentation of the game is solid with a great user interface across various menus such as the main menu, character customisation menus, inventory menus, clan menus, settings menus and gameplay menus with support for navigation via the left analogue stick, directional pad and face buttons, while being able to rotate your character with the right analogue stick, although it does not include support for navigation via the touch pad.

It's not nearly as common in these scenarios for the male player character to offer emotional support to their female sidekick, to tell her that she's doing a great job.

The presentation of the game is solid with a great user interface across various menus such as the title menu, main menu, single player menus, two player menus, online multiplayer menus, character customisation menus, brother eye vault menus, guilds menus, extras menus, options menus and gameplay menus with support for navigation via the left analogue stick, directional pad and face buttons, although it does not include support for navigation via the touch pad and the right analogue stick.