Sentences with phrase «as funhouse»

This is the exhibition as funhouse.

It would be easy to dismiss Layers of Fear as a funhouse, but the reality is that this game goes far deeper than a ride through a spooky house.

By focusing on the tumultuous friendship between Violette LeDuc and Simone de Beauvoir, Martin Provost creates not so much a dichotomy of femininity as a funhouse mirror of it.

Though The Simpsons began as a funhouse mirror held up to everyday America — the doofus dad and mischievous son, the loving mom and brainy daughter, the nerdy neighbour — over the years the show has gone from reflecting culture to influencing it.

Not exact matches

The writings of a false religion are like a funhouse mirror (some more than others), which is as it ought to be — a distortion.

«Distortive effects of short distance photographs on nasal appearance: The selfie effect: Researchers develop new mathematical model to explain how smartphones act as «portable funhouse mirrors».»

Smigel eventually had enough bits to launch a whole show as creator, executive producer, and voice actor of TV Funhouse on Comedy Central.

After landing the coveted «Discovery» award at this year's Toronto International Film Festival and being courted by distributors at a loss as to how, exactly, one goes about marketing a surreal, funhouse black comedy anymore, Aaron Woodley spoke to us by telephone fresh from an animating session on a new project while planning his sophomore feature, Blueberries.

The Lady From Shanghai — Orson Welles's craziest film appropriately ends in a funhouse Hall Of Mirrors, as that's exactly what it does to the film noir genre: twist and distort and exaggerate it almost to the point of parody at the very peak of its popularity.

The Witch's woodland farmhouse setting also counted as one of many backdrops of dread, pinning in the year's unluckiest of movie heroes: the quiet, empty spaces of a Manhattan mansion, where the young caretaker of Mickey Keating's Repulsion homage Darling comes violently unglued; the London haunted house of James Wan's bigger, sillier The Conjuring 2, a spring - loaded funhouse ride of a movie; and the claustrophobic underground bunker of 10 Cloverfield Lane, which proved less a sequel to its blockbuster «cousin» than a feature - length Twilight Zone episode.

While the film has the same funhouse feel as «Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,» it carries far more emotional heft — thanks in large part to Wasikowska's soulful performance.

It's potentially gratifying to think of Trick» r Treat as a misogynistic throwback to the glory days of slick mainstream exploitation in the 1980s — like Funhouse, for instance — except that unlike, say, Charles E. Sellier Jr.'s masterpiece of schlock Silent Night, Deadly Night, the misogyny in Dougherty's film is based primarily on inexplicably poor object choice.

He quickly made a name for himself on Dana Carvey's short - lived variety show as a writer, and as the voice of Gary for the TV Funhouse segment «The Ambiguously Gay Duo» on «SNL» before moving on to Comedy Central's «The Daily Show.»

Even if his stuff was looked down upon during its initial release, home video companies such as Shout Factory and Arrow Video have done a great job of highlighting some of his under appreciated genre gems such as Lifeforce and The Funhouse.

And who wasn't holding onto their butts for the funhouse - like fight scene as they tumbled through the spinning hallway?

Senior Road Test Editor Joe Bruzek describes it as a «Corolla viewed through a funhouse mirror.»

As if you are in a funhouse car, you are hooked onto the tracks of the story and pulled into its depths... His abiding love for frame narratives places Auster in the company of metafiction novelists like Vladimir Nabokov, Thomas Pynchon, or Italo Calvino, yet he is not a flashy, fancy, or difficult writer.

I can remember a couple story and character elements (guy that saves you, girl with the boomerang, funhouse, etc) but the rest fell off just as much as the game's actual end — which was so abrupt to the point it was pretty forgetful.

Dale Lewis's «Fat, Sugar, Salt» — his second solo show at Edel Assanti — depicts life in Brexit Britain as a distorted funhouse mirror: each new angle more grotesque and cruelly familiar than the last.

Strangely it's not do much a funhouse - mirror thing as it is an opportunity to think about how we see.

As contemporary art stares into a funhouse mirror, the world needs Michaël Borremans more than ever.

Her television appearances have included «The New Normal,» «Raising Hope,» «Melissa and Joey,» «On We Go,» «30 Rock,» «Starved,» «Hope and Faith,» «Curb Your Enthusiasm,» «Strangers with Candy,» «TV Funhouse,» «Late Night with Conan O'Brien,» «Soulman,» «Cosby,» as well as the voices for the cartoons «High School USA,» «Family Guy,» «Dilbert,» «PB & J Otter,» and the film Robots.

And in each piece, the artists themselves appear semaphorically gestulating or primally screaming, their figures distorted as if in a funhouse mirror.

9 March 2018 Dale Lewis's «Fat, Sugar, Salt» — his second solo show at Edel Assanti — depicts life in Brexit Britain as a distorted funhouse mirror: each new angle more grotesque and cruelly familiar than the last.

In November 2005, Kelley staged Day is Done, filling Gagosian Gallery with funhouse - like multimedia installations, [15] including automated furniture, as well as films of dream - like ceremonies inspired by high school year book photos of pageants, sports matches and theater productions.

Titled «Portraits,» the name evokes both the image of a distorted funhouse mirror and the idea of multiple portraits acting as shields to guard the subject's true likeness.

; he asserts that only «in the funhouse mirror of Holder's Very Politically Correct DOJ that this could be seen as an LWOP offense.»

For example, Nvidia VR Funhouse detected the motion controllers, but got them mixed up, so the right - hand controller showed as our left hand in the game, which was all very confusing.