Sentences with phrase «too brief appearance»

Ms. Davis is especially effective in her all too brief appearance as a professor cutting El very little slack.

He reunites here with Julie Walters, always superb, Turner's mother Bella, and there's Vanessa Redgrave in too brief an appearance.

Zaror, who made a memorable but all too brief appearance in last year's Machete Kills, stars in this Chilean - set tale of a hit - man turned vigilante who takes the law into his own hands in hopes of atoning for his previous sins.

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We also get appearances from James Earl Jones (who gets to be atypical and silly), as well as a stand out, but all too brief cameo from Samuel L. Jackson (in his second ever film role) as a bum who tries to hold up a fast food joint.

Here, there's an extended sequence tracking the blackmail of U.S. Congressman's assistant (played, in an all - too brief but memorable appearance, by Mary - Louise Parker, whose character treats the entire episode with unexpected levity — the acceptance of someone who knows she has been caught).

It's a fun performance and a welcome return for Janssen who's been absent from cinemas for far too long now (her brief appearances in the Taken franchise withstanding).

Anna Kendrick completes the promising line - up, making an all - too - brief appearance as potential living love interest, Erica, who generates some smirk - worthy lines from Zach who becomes tempted by the fact that, unlike Beth, Erica has a pulse — «I can, like, breathe through my nose around you».

With Van Helsing (David Warner) making a brief appearance too, it comes across like The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen on the small screen.

No - longer - young lovers Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley, both of whom skipped «Tides,» make brief appearances, too.

She has a few brief appearances and only one long scene, but she's the one you remember — and she makes you believe Mr. Holmes would remember her, too.

It's an odd, unpleasant little movie, with too - brief appearances by name actors like Jennifer Jason Leigh and Barkhad Abdi («Captain Phillips»), and too many scenes filmed in such dim light you're not sure exactly what's happening.

Christopher Abbott — until now, maybe best known for his brief appearance as a too - nice boyfriend on the HBO show «Girls» — delivers a revelatory performance as a not - too - nice boy - man who constantly, strategically, gets in his own way (until he very tellingly doesn't).

But it was his 2011 appearance as himself, on Ricky Gervais» rightfully brief HBO series Life's Too Short, that outlined the particular set of skills Neeson possesses to make his transition into comedy a natural one: a brutal, unflinching deadpan, and a resourceful willingness to play with and mock his increasingly terrifying image.

Daveed Diggs has a nice turn as a teacher, and the always wonderful Sonia Braga makes a much - too - brief appearance.

Finally, there's also a nice, if much too brief, appearance by Bruce Greenwood as a mining conglomeration bigwig that's loose, cagey and filled with eccentric charm, and it's a major pity the movie doesn't do more with him than it ultimately does.

Given how brief his appearance is here, you realize quickly how integral Stanley Tucci's sleazy television personality has been to the enjoyment of these films; he shows up all too briefly.

Carter swoops into her life and looks like a promising romantic partner; he treats her right and dazzles her parents, in a sequence that includes a welcome and far - too - brief appearance from Charles S. Dutton.