Sentences with phrase «almost jokey»

This quick line, almost a jokey throwaway, is, in fact, key to Sarah Polley's conception of autobiography and documentary filmmaking.

Not exact matches

One of its most endearing qualities is its insistence to never reduce its cast — which is made up almost entirely of senior citizens — to the jokey cliches that they so often are in films like Last Vegas.

It's almost a bit jokey, but without being funny or scary.

In a climactic sexual encounter between Lopez and Clooney in a hotel bar and suite, this yields a piece of visual enchantment almost worthy of another studio slave, Vincente Minnelli — a sequence involving jokey foreplay, fluttery snowfall, blurry lights, discarded bits of clothing, voices drifting in and out of synch, and oodles of freeze - frames.