Sentences with phrase «of smaller cameos»

As mentioned, even though there are plenty of smaller cameos, none of the iconic franchise faces distract from the primary story beats — serving to add additional humor and immersion without taking anything away from the main plot.

Christina Applegate was the butt of many jokes in the first movie as the villainous head of the PTA but with the exception of a small cameo, she's absent here.

Not exact matches

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.

In the case of the $ 99,118 in donations Diaz received, the money was tied to a comparatively small outfit, MJM Construction — not exactly as bold - faced a firm as those that made eye - brow - raising cameos in corruption trials of former elected officials like Dean Skelos and Sheldon Silver.

A slimming down of the cast might have enabled screenwriter Steve Kloves to give a smaller number of characters their due, instead of these blink - and - you - miss - them cameos cluttering the screen.

After appearing in a pair of supporting roles (Trapped in Paradise and The Road to Wellville (both 1994)-RRB- and a cameo (1996's The Shot) shortly thereafter, Carvey disappeared almost entriely from the public eye until resurfacing in the 1999 Saturday Night Live; Presidential Bash and once again taking a small role in Adam Sandler's Little Nicky (2000).

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.

(One exception is John Ratzenberger, who continues his streak of appearing in every Pixar film to date with a small cameo.)

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.

Even an issue of «Tomb of Dracula», the Marvel series in which Blade and Hannibal King make their first appearances, makes a small but significant cameo.

He's even managed to attract some star quality in the persons of Murdoch Mysteries star Yannick Bisson as oily villain Sydney Swallows and filmmaker Kevin Smith (Clerks) in a cameo role as Bubba Rich, mayor of small town Woodhaven.

Which is great news for Seth Carr, whose small but impactful cameo as a young Erik Killmonger is making him the envy of all...

Which is great news for Seth Carr, whose small but impactful cameo as a young Erik Killmonger is making him the envy of all his school friends.

You won't likely be surprised to learn that, outside of the main handful of guys, most of the cast is either a small supporting role or a cameo.

Directed by Gia Coppola (grand - daughter of Francis, niece of Sofia and Roman, cousin of Nicolas Cage and Jason Schwartzman) and starring Emma Roberts (niece of Julia) and Jack Kilmer (son of Val, who has a small cameo role), this ensemble piece makes you wonder would it ever have gotten off the ground were it to be pitched by an unconnected newcomer.

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.

There have been other small roles, a bodyguard in 1982's A Time to Die and the cab driver in The Butterfly Room; however, one of his more memorable cameos is in the opening moments of the horror parody The Silence of the Hams, performing alongside some other famous faces as seen here:

Ever since Alfred Hitchcock popularized the director cameo, audiences expect to see certain filmmakers pop up in small roles within their own films; from Quentin Tarantino to Spike Lee to M. Night Shyamalan, the faces of the directors are as expected as their distinct visual styles.

OK, it starts dreadfully, Adrienne King returning for a small cameo where she has a convenient nightmare of events from the first film, which helpfully reminds us what happened before.

If you have watched any of the Happy Madison produced movies since the beginning of Adam Sandler's film career, they are jam packed with all of his friends in small cameos.

• Walsh is one of three Blood Simple performers to appear in the Coens» next film Raising Arizona, in which he has a small (but hilarious) cameo.

The script, meanwhile, offers up a small handful of decent gags, and there are just enough pratfalls and wacky cameos (Paul Whitehouse!

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.

This is the cover shot of a very small cameo in a recent feature.

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.

He looks old here, made up with a gray beard and wizard robes, aside from his introductory scenes, he doesn't really get time or space to develop his Taoist Gandalf character, nor does he have much opportunity to show off his fighting skills, given the supernatural nature of the action (Lam Ching - ying gets such a chance in a too - small cameo role as «The Purple Taoist»).

Eric Chase Anderson, the younger brother of Wes, is perhaps best known for the small cameo roles in his sibling's work, as well as his gorgeous illustrations that grace the Criterion covers and inserts of...

Though she turned down a small (nude) role in Breathless, she was soon cast in Godard's next film, Le petit soldat (1961), at age twenty, and would go on to appear in six more of his films during the sixties, including the iconic Vivre sa vie and Band of Outsiders (she and Godard would also cameo together in Agnès Varda's Cléo from 5 to 7).

The likes of Jonah Hill, Paul Rudd and Bill Hader have little more than glorified cameos, but it makes these small distractions all the more important.

The directors cast the rest of players wisely, with the aforementioned actors all very good (Mulligan is perfectly acidic and bitter) and even smaller parts for John Goodman, Garrett Hedlund (nearly dialogue free), Adam Driver (who was part of one of the biggest laughs at the Cannes screening) and Alex Karpovsky, aren't just cast for cameo purposes, but really enliven what would otherwise be throwaway roles, creating a rich world for this movie to take place in, and for Llewyn to interact with.

That so vibrant a «civilian» as Pepper has been for years reduced to cameos (or, worse, temporarily infused with superpowers) is emblematic of why the small - screen approach doesn't scale well to the big screen.

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)

Greatest Film Director Cameos: Herein is a small collection of the most famous appearances by directors on the front side of the camera, in films of their own making (in alphabetical order by film title).

Some of the cameos were fantastic, and a great way to bring in all our favourites of Anderson's usual players, although a lot of the cameos felt like nothing more than small ploys for audience once the film was over.

While the character previously made his big screen debut earlier this year in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and had a small cameo in Suicide Squad, his solo film has been running into difficulties.

And that's not even getting into all of the cameos and smaller subplots.

We get some incredible scenes with the rest of the strong ensemble, like Robert Davi, David Schwimmer, Chris Evans» slimy Mr. Freezy, and the small cameo scene with James Franco, re-enacting one of Kuklinski's most famous stories (where he gives the victim a half hour to pray to God to save his life).

Eric Chase Anderson, the younger brother of Wes, is perhaps best known for the small cameo roles in his sibling's work, as well as his gorgeous illustrations that grace the Criterion covers and inserts of all the Wes Anderson releases.

Phillips makes small cameos in all his films, none of which can be reprinted here.

There are many great cameos and smaller roles along the way from the likes of Jean Dujardin, Kyle Chandler, Rob Reiner, and Matthew McConaughey.

From the villains to the smallest of cameos, this movie doesn't disappoint.

In fact, the only performances even worth noting are Fred Willard (donning a faux - hawk) and Jane Lynch (nailing every pose and stare), who are pitch - perfect as a pair of hosts on an entertainment news show, and Ricky Gervais in a small cameo as a studio exec.

A Boss Bass makes a small cameo in Mario Kart DS, where he jumps out of the water and over the course in Banshee Boardwalk.

The Meeseeks box in Halo 5 Halo has been a franchise known for its alien - like creatures, but as it would seem, another popular television show with interesting other - worldly characters makes a small cameo appearance within one of its maps.

Don't forget Dark Savior which makes a small cameo when you get to the theatre area you'll see a poster of Dark Savior.

Though it's nice to Barbara appear in a game that actually made it outside of Japan (not counting her small cameo in Super Smash Bros..

Cranky makes a small cameo in the background of Jungle Japes in Super Smash Bros..

She then made a small cameo glass portrait of each.

You may remember her from our Superheroes of Personal Finance series (rumor has it she makes a cameo in the director's cut of Captain America: Civil War) or maybe you've seen her in small - time publications like Forbes, Bankrate, Time, and SmartMoney, on a little show I like to call the Today Show, or in one of her many books.

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