Sentences with phrase «than cameos from»

There seems to be a never ending stream of little more than cameos from a tremendous line - up of actors: Barry Corbin, William Fichtner, Jesse Plemons, David Dencik, Evan Jones, John Lithgow, Tim Blake Nelson, James Spader, and Hailee Steinfeld.

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A loan move to Ajax could perhaps suit all parties, especially as the summer arrival of Angel di Maria is likely to prevent Januzaj securing more than just a series of cameo displays from the bench.

Other than one season for Theo, a cameo against Bsrcs from Jack and a few flashes from Gibbs what exactly have each of these players accomplished over there countless years @ the Emirates.

Forget the quality of opposition etc and other churlish remarks but our attacking boys done good; Ramsey for Wales, Welbz for England, Alexis for Chile, Mesut for Germany — brief but bright cameos from Santi and Ollie, appearances for Theo and Poldi (Low has him inked in as an 80 min impact guy — easier to do in an international setting than at club level).

Alexandre Lacazette has found himself out of the starting line - up since the arrival from Borussia Dortmund, but he managed to do more for our side in his 10 - minute cameo than his attacking counterpart did inside the full 90 minutes.

Realistically would city, Chelsea or manure sign a 17 year old from a weak league and expect anything other than the odd cup cameo..?

His raw pace in behind a leaky Everton defence will reward his manager should he earn more than just a late cameo role from the bench.

There are so many things wrong with this game, first of all the plot is too linear you play as Mario throughout the whole game you don't get to play as peach or bowser, there are no new characters other than kersti, all the characters in the game are from the Mario platformers, there are no exp so you can't level up and if you run out of stickers you have no choice but to run away, peach only has about five lines, bowser is the main antagonist and he has no dialogue, in the previous installments the main antagonist always had dialogue, and one of this game's worst problems is that luigi went from being a playable character to a glorified cameo, I have no idea what nintendo was thinking when they made this game.

There are also a few cameos from Nick's friends — Ray Winstone (who starred in the video for «Jubilee Street»), Kylie Minogue and Blixa Bargeld (longtime guitarist for the Bad Seeds) explaining why he left the group in 2003 after 20 years with the band — who appear as hallucinations in the passenger seat of his car, rather than through a standard interview segment.

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.

There's a few surprising cameos, as one would expect from today's mainstream comedies, but these, too, come across more as organic character building than lazy stunt casting.

In regards to the characters, alot of the Mass Effect 2 squad mates are basically reduced to cameos and the returning characters other than maybe Liara (Bioware's golden girl), Garrus and Tali suffer from a lack of decent screentime and proper handling that affects their development at the core.

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.

There are some fun cameos — Kristen Wiig and Mark Ruffalo, and James Franco and Mila Kunis as very different couples from the Fosters who nevertheless represent other possibilities for them, and Mark Wahlberg as a security expert who helps out the Fosters: he plays a funny part so straight that it's funnier than it deserves to be.

It's an interesting spree — strewn with cameos from Jake Tapper, Rudy Giuliani, Bill Richardson and more — and Nolte seems to make more of the role than the scripts offer.

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.

The celebrity cameos from Duck Dynasty members Willie and Korie Robertson and the Newsboys are low key object lessons in defusing conflict rather than escalating it.

A cameo from Alfred Hitchcock (impersonated by Roger Ashton - Griffiths even less convincingly than Anthony Hopkins in Hitchock) only makes things worse.

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.

There is also a blink and you'll miss it cameo from none other than James Franco.

Interesting, too, is the inescapable idea that the only genuinely convincing relationships in the film are homosexual, and that the picture could be read with profit as an escalating evolution of father relationships from low to positively Christian (mad steward Denethor and son Faramir, Frodo and Gollum, Gandalf and the hobbits, Aragorn and mankind)-- but part and parcel with the oft - fascinating subtext and beautiful images is a parade of useless cameos (please, enough Cate Blanchett), de rigueur expository flashbacks, and the squandering of opportunities to locate the genuine interest in unlikely epic heroes (women and, essentially, children), rather than just pay lip service to them.

A movie that could have done with a cameo appearance from Eileen Brennan, Flypaper at least adds a slight kink in its comedy presentation, which results in it being slightly fresher than it perhaps could have been.

Similarly, in an especially clever touch, Akhtar trots out the old Bollywood cliché of a surprise superstar cameo in a way that actually serves, rather than distracts from, the plot.

It's shot in 3 - D, features a cameo from Nick Cave, and seems to exist only to prove that Wenders can do worse than Every Thing Will Be Fine.

Re: The Lobster: is there any better minor comedic aside in a movie this year than the cameo of Keith from The Office (Ewen MacIntosh), advising on the hotel's shooting range that «it's not a coincidence that these targets look like single people»?

The Hangover Part II stars Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, Ed Helms, and Justin Bartha with cameos from Liam Neeson, Ken Jeong and none other than Mike Tyson.

Most of the famous faces are little more than cameos, and so you will have to spend more time with Coop's (Michael Showalter) failed attempts at romance (with Lake Bell) than anybody wants to, but there are so many distractions from the «plot» of «First Day of Camp,» that the piece rarely drags.

If you are a fan of Kevin Smith and have seen all of his films, you will probably enjoy Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back much more than those unfamiliar due to the many in - joke references and cameo appearances by the characters from his previous films.

Highlights include an Exclusive Preview Screening of Room including a Q&A with Director Lenny Abrahamson; a screening of A Christmas Star — the first ever children's Christmas movie from Ireland voiced by Liam Neeson with cameos from Pierce Brosnan and Kylie Minogue; an opening event celebrating the unknown life of W.B. Yeats W.B. Yeats, No Country for Old Men and Older than Ireland, Alex Fegan's documentary telling the stories of 30 centenarians from Ireland.

One can expect an exceptional secondary cast in the aforementioned Landecker, Shaw and Schwartzman, along with Alan Ruck («Ferris Bueller's Day Off»), Beverly D'Angelo («Vacation» trilogy), and a welcome cameo from none other than Talia Shire herself, who, fittingly, portrays Monty's mother.

While her widowed father's (a delightful cameo from Jeff Garlin, Curb Your Enthusiam) attempts to make her act her young age are funny, seeing her find purpose through the seeming insanity of Kenneth is more endearing than it sounds.

Feige talks about Doctor Strange's origin story, how the movie will be different from the comics, rooting crazy concepts in real science, does Steven Strange know about The Avengers, how the film is more respectful to other cultures than the original source material may have been, how this movie was inspired by The Oath, which characters might connect with the Runaways, Mads Mikkelsen «s character Kaecilius, multiple dimensions, the trouble with writing magic action, how Mordo is different in the movie, Rachel McAdams «character Christine Palmer, is the eye of agamotto an infinity stone, the genre of the film, how this film will defy expectations, Steven Strange's role in the larger MCU, will we see cameos from the other Marvel characters, and much more.

Beresford does a fine job of juggling his expansive ensemble of characters (and it really is an ensemble, with no one character even really getting more screen time than the others), and almost everyone, even seemingly minor characters, get something substantial to play with at some point (Russell Tovey, from «Looking,» makes an indelible impression even with a one - scene cameo).

For anyone with Avengers fatigue that's tired of the endless build - up towards the MCU's next big thing while crossovers and cameos distract us from any genuine substance, Deadpool 2 is the perfect antidote, ironically showing us an alternate Brolin villain that's so much simpler than Thanos while being inherently more watchable.

The film also features a plethora of cameo appearances by celebrities Neil deGrasse Tyson, Anderson Cooper, Brooke Baldwin, Soledad O'Brien, Nancy Grace and Dana Bash who merely distract from rather than advance the plot.

Characters from the first game do show up fairly frequently, but, for the most part, their appearances are little more than glorified cameos.

Sea of Thieves» launch trailer is here, and it features a terrifying cameo from none other than the Kraken.