Sentences with phrase «of cameo performances»

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.

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Walking into the offices of JT Marlin, a small time brokerage firm on the outskirts of New York — Seth gets an aggressive cameo performance from Jay that sets the tone for a firm clearly placing money above all else.
Chilean forward Eduardo Vargas has taken his time to adapt to Premier League football since joining on loan from Napoli this summer, but impressive cameo performances against the likes of Liverpool have given Rangers fans real hope that he can be a difference maker for them.
Arsenal Almunia 7 — Had little to do, but what he did do he did well Sagna 7 — Lost the ball a couple of times but reliable as ever Gallas 9 — Excellent game, this season will be an important one for the Frenchman and this was a great way to start it Clichy 7 — Didn't put a foot wrong Fabregas 9 — Wonderful performance capped with a brace (Ramsey) 7 — The Welsh Cesc is coming along nicely Vermaelen 9 — An assured debut that left me forgetting about the absence of Kolo Denilson 8 — Top notch display Song Billong 8 — Solid and measured Arshavin 8 — Kept going from the 1st to the final minute Van Persie 8 — No goals, but two assists and a hand in an other (Eduardo) 7 — Lethal finisher showed what he is all about in his cameo Bendtner 8 — Really impressed me and is continuing to improve every game (Eboue) 7 — Helped close out the game.
Sometimes, as a fringe player (Chamberlain has started only 4 of the 8 games in the Premier League), it's easy to dish out top - drawer performances when you are asked to do a cameo role for the team, and very least is expected of you.
And when I saw his cameo performance on Sunday I sadly didn't feel the same pang of sadness that I did the week before and sadly, the week before that because the more and more I start to think about the reality of the situation, the more that pragmatism kicks in for my mind.
After Leeds new boy Jay - Roy Grot recently made headlines for his impressive cameo performance in the match against Nottingham Forest, another summer arrival in the mold of 19 - year - old attacking midfielder Alejandro Machuca offered everyone a glimpse of his prodigious talent in a recent U-23 match against Colchester.
The winger replaced Lamela with 63 minutes on the clock and went on to record a faultless 100 % pass completion rate while also attempting four shots at goal and setting up a chance as part of a telling cameo performance for his side.
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.
Perry «makes a cameo in End Game as warring stars make up after three - year feud» By Justin Eille Pøglia Before 1990, Camille Pagha, professor of humanities at Philadelphia's University of the was known primarily for her performance in the classroom.
It's a marvelous cameo performance, out - wonderfulled only by Gambon's grave majesty and Rickman's slow, pearly elocution and his depiction of Snape's emergence from a crusty shell into another sort of majesty.
«Baywatch» was a regular movie, where his return was not so triumphant, the performances were regular, the plot a bit absurd, and it causes me more stupor that Zac Efron continues to star in comedy movies with rude jokes, but what saves are Cameos of the old characters, but by God, as Pam
The performances further distinguish this the portrayals of notable figures in this film, which delivers on plenty of neat cameos and supporting performances by recognizable talents who nail the recognizable figures, while leading man Alan Rickman more - or-less carries things with his trademark dry, soft - spoken charisma, which captures the mysterious madness and cleverness of Hilly Krystal.
«Baywatch» was a regular movie, where his return was not so triumphant, the performances were regular, the plot a bit absurd, and it causes me more stupor that Zac Efron continues to star in comedy movies with rude jokes, but what saves are Cameos of the old characters, but by God, as Pam Anderson ruined, and more than invited her to that movie, it's a damn roll.
Full of really great and odd performances, it contains many great actors who usually take on smaller and yet substantial roles such as Peter Sarsgaard as a grave digging kleptomaniac, Ian Holm as Andrew's psychiatrist father, who had put his son into a lithium infused haze, and strangely enough a cameo from rapper Method Man as a bellhop.
The cameo performances by Helen Mirren (as a doctor), Vanessa Redgrave (a piano teacher) and Patricia Clarkson (the victim's mother), among others, reveals Mr. Penn to be a great director of actors with a mind - reading ability to discover a character's truth in the tiniest dramatic nuances.
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.
Tsai extracts some exquisite performances from his actors — a homosexual meeting between Lee and Mathieu Amalric, shot exclusively in close - ups of their faces; an intimate confession between Léaud and Fanny Ardent; an unexpected cameo by Jeanne Moreau.
Cameos and duet performances range from Miley Cyrus to Ludacris, Boyz II Men (poor guys) to Usher and of course, a young Will Smith offspring has to show up somewhere.
He does, however, provide the only real spark in an otherwise drab affair, and not even the cameo appearance of D - grade star Carmen Electra can lift those around him to even acceptable levels of performance.
An abundance of great supporting performances (led by a perfect return by Harrison Ford and incredible newcomer Sylvia Hoeks) and effective cameos move the action forward, while the most vivid cinematography and special effects in years make you wish the movie would never end.
The sword - and - sandals, «Jesus Picture» star, Baird Whitlock (George Clooney, sillier than ever — an injoke reminiscent of Steve Buscemi's ever decreasing mortal remains in the Coenography) is missing, and the gossip columnists (both played by Tilda Swinton, both underused), the sailor tap - dancing musical has an alarming case of closeted gayness (and a wonderful cameo from the Highlander frenchman, Christopher Lambert), the Busby Berkeley mermaid picture has a star (Scarlett Johannson, in a glorious Noo Yawk accent) and whose fish tail is getting more ill - fitting by the hour due to a pregnancy scandal about to break, and a Euro - flavoured drawing - room melodrama has been saddled with an aw - shucks singing cowboy leading man (Alden Ehrenreich in a breakout performance) who is far, far out of his depth.
Had it not been for Bill Murray's screamingly hilarious turn as himself in Zombieland, the best cameo of the year would have most certainly gone to Mike Tyson for his performance in The Hangover.
Jed is known for writing the cult movie «Slashed» which features acting performances from Chris Martin and Johnny Buckland from Coldplay, Moby, Ben Kweller, ASH, James Nesbitt and a host of other celebrity cameos.
In the kind of film that usually relies on the performances of its pop - in cameos — and there is quite a handful, including Anthony Anderson, Ethan Embry, Neil Patrick Harris, Luis Guzman, Ryan Reynolds and Fred Willard — Cho and Penn keep control of the wheel the whole way through, never missing a beat on their unadulterated wit as they continue to push the moral envelope in their search for a late - night snack.
Removing voice - over work, shorts, and uncredited cameos, Streep has received 21 nominations out of 54 performances.
You only really hear the proverbial crickets during Jonah Hill's characteristically profane cameo as the adult incarnation of said ghost: Where most of the performances are purposefully one - dimensional, Hill's — owing to the actor's intractably anachronistic demeanour — is the only one that comes off as technically crude.
There are a bunch of solid if uninspiring performances and an insane amount of cameos.
Now, at last, we can be reminded of Margaret Cho's cameo performance (lamentably, a speaking one); of the astoundingly deep cabal of secondary players running the gamut from Alessandro Nivola to Gershon to Colm Feore to CCH Pounder; and of how the whole thing is so much better than it ought to be.
«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.
We've got much more piss your pants one liners and forth wall breaking tomfoolery from Wade, it's sweet sensitive and extremely emotional in parts (not since the finale of T2 have I sobbed so much), the OTT action and gore makes a hatchet fight in a Butcher shop look clean in comparison with moments to make hardcore Gore - Geeks give a huge hooray, the cringe worthy «oh no he didn't» moments are rife, there's a touching subplot about what it really means to be Family and also we are treated to an array of colorful supporting characters including an excellent turn from Josh Brolin as futuristic super soldier «Cable», a wonderful performance from upcoming young talented star Julian Dennison (hunt for the wilder people), the obligatory Hugh Jackman cameo and a mega hard Super Villain who makes his previous onscreen incarnation seem like Vinny Jones in a giant penis suit... Oh wait!
Both tracks perpetuate and consolidate the production lore that circulated at the time of The Innkeepers» release — West's history with the Yankee Pedlar, the Kelly McGillis Skype call, the revelation of Paxton's dorkiness, etc. — but the discussion in each case dilates to include a gamut of topics, from unconscious influences (no stranger to ghosts, Healy found his performance haunted by too many viewings of Fargoand Pee - Wee's Big Adventure) to Fessenden's cameo (maddeningly offscreen).
There's a subplot between Osment and Rodriguez that is incredibly peculair mostly because There's also a cameo that has perhaps been spoiled for many at this point, so I will only say that though his character doesn't always fit in with the rest of the film's tone, his performance is the best comedic element of the film.
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.
They find a wax model of Sir Lancelot (Dan Stevens) that actually thinks it's on a quest to find the Holy Grail and return it to Camelot (His attempt to find that castle leads to the sole scene in the movie that is genuinely funny, featuring a pair of cameos from actors interrupted in their performance of a Lerner and Loewe musical).
These cameos are a highlight of the film, and rise above some of the leading performances from the international cast.
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.
One of the delights of the film is its collection of comic cameo performances.
**** 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..»
We've seen Dane DeHaan, who had a breakout 2012 thanks to notable performances in Chronicle and Lawless (as well as a cameo in Lincoln), and he is fast becoming one of the true beacons of young Hollywood.
Recently he was also quite good in Looper (retiming with Johnson, after also putting forward a quick cameo in The Brothers Bloom for the filmmaker too) as well as Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises and Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, though the Academy didn't nominated him for any of those performances either.
The cast is impeccable to a one, all the way down to the unbearably sad - funny one - scene performance of Steve Park as Margie's pathetic former schoolmate Mike Yanagita (Coen buddy Bruce Campbell also pops up in a cameo).
Not every joke lands, and the movie begins to lose steam in the final act, but «Popstar» does just enough to keep you entertained with its cavalcade of musician cameos and a great lead performance by Samberg, who channels Derek Zoolander as the clueless, self - confident popstar.
On balance, though, Django Unchained is fine entertainment, full of memorable performances (Waltz is excellent), great cameos by personalities forgotten by everyone except Tarantino (e.g. Lee Horsley, TV's Matt Houston back in the»80s; Franco Nero, the original Django in the 1966 movie), and crackerjack set - pieces (the sequence with Don Johnson's Big Daddy leading a charge of bumbling racists is pure comic gold).
Great star performances help Into The Night move along nicely, paired with a ton of cameos, and an awesome soundtrack.
Every performance here is great, including Laura Linney in a brilliant cameo as Susan's bourgeois mother, but the Edward story is more engaging thanks to a trio of excellent performances from Shannon, Taylor - Johnson and Gyllenhaal, who has the trickiest job playing two very distinct characters.
Matt Damon gives a brilliant performance — as always — and is joined by a handful of great supporting actors (and lots of exciting cameos too).
Good performances of the year included Matt Damon, Hillary Swank, Julianne Moore was great in The End of the Affair, Cate Blanchett was good in her Talented Mr Ripley Cameo.
Sam Shepard has an all - too - brief cameo, and relative newcomer Scoot McNairy demonstrates promising range on the heels of his impeccable performance in Argo.
The cast seems like it could have promise, filled with the likes of Scarlett Johansson, Jillian Bell, Ilana Glazer and Zoe Kravitz (as well as some truly out there cameo performances from Ty Burrell and Demi Moore).
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