Sentences with phrase «about oddball»

Suspecting that she is not alone in leaving law to pursue writing — or at least in the desire to do so — Viswanathan makes this her theme, «writing about my oddball career choices.»

Probably Singer's version was something like another Argo — a jaunty, stranger - than - fiction caper about oddball outsiders colluding with the government on a covert op.

It hews to the most obvious tropes of case - of - the - week shows about oddball visionaries partnered with law - and - order sharpshooters, and in the first hour at least, doesn't pay its audience much respect when it comes to the plausibility of dialogue, character motivations, or the security procedures at a mental institution for former future - convicts.

We know a lot about their oddball skeletons from the neck down, but this is the first time we've been able to digitally dissect an entire skull.»

Not exact matches

We often hear about Google's oddball «Moonshot» projects — from using balloons to bring internet to isolated areas to developing self - driving cars — but according to at least one of the company's former execs, Google's obsession with shooting for the stars actually reaches into even the most mundane aspects of its everyday business.

Before Nate at Oddball «discovers» all the < 2off the radar» European stocks I thought that I start a series about stocks which are in my opinion are strange or uncommon.

Nate Tobik, the author of The Oddball Stocks Blog has been writing about under - followed and under appreciated investments since 2010.

It's an oddball friendship, but one that reminds us how important it is to have people we care about in our lives — even if it's just one person.

There is a whole schpiel about Atlanta's oddball economy that goes here: we're the home of UPS, Delta, Home Depot and yes, Coca - Cola, but also the home of Adult Swim, the modern hip - hop - industrial complex and the pre-demolished look and convenient state tax credit that makes filming The Walking Dead here so plausible.

TrES - 4 and other oddball planets among the 250 or so discovered in the past 12 years are challenging, even revolutionizing, astronomers» assumptions about how planets and planetary systems form.

After a couple years of working various jobs, Bookstein heard about a program at Michigan for oddball scholars with bright ideas.

Yet that's exactly what recently turned up, providing researchers a rare peek inside the core of a massive star and raising questions about how such an oddball could have formed.

That is a big clue about how you get oddball giants like this.»

Take a look at Ed Wood, his amazing biopic about the world's worst filmmaker and the oddballs who surround him.

It seems to me that this monkey needs to be told a few things about how to not be a creeper and all around oddball about shit like this.

With the help of oddball neighbor Dave (Fred Armisen)-- the more we learn about this eccentric, the more fascinatingly strange he becomes — and his drumming skills, the couple start turning their dysfunctional marital lemons into strangely catchy lemonade.

Then they realize they like writing songs about their own fights, so they dig out an old electric guitar and bass from their garage and begin jamming out with oddball neighbor Dave (Fred Armisen), whom they recruit to be their drummer.

Endor College is run by domineering headmistress Madam Mumblechook (Kate Winslet) and the oddball Doctor Dee (Jim Broadbent), and it's a realm of eerie beauty — alternating between steampunk bustle and space - age grandeur, a place of water - holograms and tornadoes of light, where fish sentries buzz about and people are carried on puffs of clouds.

Gustave de Kervern & Benoît Delépine), an anarchist feel - good film about two oddball characters; Adventureland (dir.

Once you get through the story, the game really opens up because you're not worrying as much about trying to complete the game, and you can concentrate on things like saving all of those oddball survivors, taking out the wonderfully erratic psychos in the game or having a friend drop in to help you cut and shoot your way through the unbelievable number of zombies that Blue Castle manage to pack into a single space.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

The core of the movie is about a sensitive boy and a grumpy girl who plan to meet for a private adventure; he escapes from his scout camp, she temporarily runs away from home, and while this sweet, odd, and adorable romance takes center stage, Anderson (as usual) populates the periphery with all sorts of colorful oddballs.

The result is that Hecht - MacArthur's exhilarating workaday oddballs come off as a bunch of homely clerks without an office supervisor to worry about.

In a movie about con - men and gamblers, Ryan Reynolds and Ben Mendelsohn feature as a pair of «oddball strangers» who hit the road together to try to make a high - stakes poker tournament in New Orleans.

A big screen treatment on Augusten Burroughs» semi-autobiographical memoir about his tumultuous childhood growing up with an oddball mother, Deirdre (Benning, Mrs. Harris), who sends him to live with her highly unorthodox psychiatrist, Dr, Finch (Cox, Red Eye), whose home environment proves to be even more strange than the one he was being sheltered from.

Oddball cult film about a mutant sheep that attacks a small modern - day town whose residents for some reason dress in Wild West gear.

Q: Can you talk about casting Richard E. Grant who does a terrific job playing this oddball sidekick and friend to Dom?

Given Franco's notorious penchant for performing oddball stunts, many thought his decision to channel Tommy Wiseau in a movie about the making of The Room was just another case of the actor being weird for no good reason, but it appears he actually took the performance very seriously.

Mew - genics was always my oddball dream project and probably the game I'm questioned about the most these days.

Where Ed Wood was a valentine to artistic oddballs and eccentrics on the fringes told with an optimism that was certainly not mirrored in Wood's real life, this is a story about the pain behind the façade of happiness and success.

It's not the revelation of truth about the Tonya Harding fiasco that it wants to be, but «I, Tonya» is plenty of fun and features solid, oddball performances.

The Irish - German star, 37, stars in the title role of the oddball comedy about the eccentric frontman of a pop band who hides his identity inside a Frank Sidebottom mask.

Overlaying these observations with a strangely stiff style and peppering scenes with nonsensical conversations about fancy watches and body hair further illuminates the oddball lampooning that Lanthimos is aiming for.

This is not to say that this comedy about an advertising executive's (Robert Downey Jr.) increasingly oddball session with a psychiatrist (Alan Arkin) isn't without its laughs and amusements, largely due to the leads» go - for - broke enthusiasm.

The material's about as generic as it gets, enlivened — as these kinds of things often are — by a few oddball supporting turns (Weller, for one, seems to be having a great time chewing scenery).

Oddball comedy about man obsessed with fake sci - fi kids» show has beta - male ace up its sleeve — «Saturday Night Live» star Kyle Mooney

One of the things that drew me to MRFH as a reader was reading reviews about my favorite obscure and / or beloved oddball flicks from people who understood just enjoying movies.

And though so many movies pretend to be about unusual or oddball characters, this one really feels like it is — it feels like it doesn't give a crap if you agree with it or not, because it knows it's in the right.

Vowing to never to act again in something he wasn't one hundred percent about, Johnny began a new, risk - filled career of oddball characters that he enjoyed bringing to life.

The best thing about this series is that the comedy and action are centred on the likeably oddball characters.

Along with them came even more oddball creatures to battle, a greater scale to the game's events, multiplayer modes, weapon variety and crafting, and a two part system to its stages where Pit would begin the level in flight for about five minutes (the best the angel can manage with Palutena's help) and then would land to battle it out on foot.

And 306 Hollywood seems like an intriguing, oddball documentary about two siblings sifting through their late grandmother's possessions and trying to craft some portrait of a life in the process.

In terms of this films award prospects, I remember Kris doing a piece about how oddball auteurs don't typically get recognition from the Academy until they make a more academy - friendly film.

Best known for his star turn in Australian comedy classic «Kenny», Shane Jacobson is back for «Oddball», a true story about an eccentric...

When we talk about Porsche being dedicated to family, that car is definitely an oddball.

If the Gallic firm is serious about making DS stand on its own two feet as a brand in the UK then the products need to be more clearly defined than this oddball crossover.

Vehicle styling is about as subjective a subject as they come, but it's impossible to discuss the 2012 Veloster without addressing its looks and oddball design.

8.7 The Audi TT has always been kind of an oddball choice in its segment, but that's what we love about it.

Though I suspect readers are probably most familiar with Katharine Weber's novel about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911, my favorite of hers is the darkly hilarious and oddball True Confections, starring Alice Tatnall Ziplinsky.

There's an oddball title in the number ten spot, though: Chapter 16 of a digital - first manga about a boy and his robot maid that came out last July.