Sentences with phrase «as gonzo»

It seems that most people who have weighed in on this would classify themselves as Gonzo.

Above all, there's Sam Rockwell, whose manic turn as the gonzo Billy steals the movie even from notorious gonzo - character specialist Woody Harrelson.

Watching a movie as gonzo as Miami Connection, it's seriously great, helps one understand just how incredibly awesome the 1980s were when it came to moviemaking and music.

When: October 11th Why: The first «Machete» wasn't nearly as entertaining as its gonzo premise suggested, but with Robert Rodriguez taking over full directing duties for the sequel, there's a part of me that really wants «Machete Kills» to fulfill that potential, especially with a rumored third installment («Machete Kills Again... In Space!»)

However, these are minor quibbles in the grand scheme of things, as the script by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber paints the Tommy Wiseau story as a gonzo La La Land, where the primary theme is never giving up on your dreams.

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The dollar is strengthening now, which affects your international investment returns (currency risk as you mentioned) so going gonzo into that right now may not be a good idea considering the headwinds.

Gonzo Higuain, a talented striker who is not even universally seen as a top talent, is on the verge of moving to Juventus for # 79m.

Russell Crowe named his son Tennyson (as in writer Alfred Tennyson), model Niki Taylor named her son Hunter (think gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson), and Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake named their son Silas (title character of George Eliot's novel Silas Marner).

Among his many accolades, the British artist co-invented gonzo journalism — where the storyteller becomes the story — as an illustrator for the various works of lifelong friend Hunter S. Thompson, including Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

That sense of purpose and drive animates Stone in a way that his recent films have not, and even though it's far less gonzo and experimental as Stone's quintessential catalogue, the storytelling skill is still consistently engaging and the resulting 134 minutes inform as well as entertain.

Overall, it's easy to appreciate the screwy, lurid atmosphere, but even as Tarantino's enthusiasm is characteristically infectious, it eventually grows tiresome.Basically, the experience boils down to this: Accept «Django Unchained» on its own gonzo terms and it's a marvelously enjoyable piece of subversive entertainment — for a little while.

For all of the gonzo flourishes, Waititi is a fairly conventional plotter and stager of action scenes, and so eventually we must move on to a denouement we don't quite care about, as well as a potentially weighty theme — Hela might represent the ugly origins that all prosperous societies bury — that stays too far out of focus.

Terry Gilliam's hallucinatory 1998 adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's classic of gonzo journalism stars Johnny Depp as Thompson's alter ego Raoul Duke and Benicio De Toro (thrillingly and terrifying unencumbered by any behavioral boundaries) as Dr. Gonzo in the drug - fueled carnival atmosphere of Las Vegas, circa gonzo journalism stars Johnny Depp as Thompson's alter ego Raoul Duke and Benicio De Toro (thrillingly and terrifying unencumbered by any behavioral boundaries) as Dr. Gonzo in the drug - fueled carnival atmosphere of Las Vegas, circa Gonzo in the drug - fueled carnival atmosphere of Las Vegas, circa 1971.

The Neon Demon is a voluptuous provocation, a stylish free - fall down a gonzo rabbit hole that is as entrancing as it is maddening.

He doesn't take quite the gonzo cinematic approach McKay did, but he keeps things visually interesting via unflattering freeze frames and drug - fueled conversations glimpsed through night vision goggles as he zooms from Miami and Vegas to Jordan and Albania.

What starts out as a quite promising gonzo pastiche sadly loses steam after the first act, when the script runs out of ways to sustain the hilariously insane premise.

In his gonzo epic «Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,» Hunter S. Thompson referred to the Summer of Love in 1967 as, in retrospect, the point where the great wave of the counterculture «broke and finally rolled back.»

Still, while it's not as quotable as the first movie, «Anchorman 2» has more than enough laughs that it's an enjoyable, albeit uneven and incredibly gonzo, comedy.

* Tackling broadly, if clumsily, the hypocrisy of religions that place the church before God, Priest has going for it the same simplicity of its gonzo belief as the similarly interesting The Book of Eli.

But while the Miike review that doesn't contain the word «gonzo» is a rarity, he is no scattershot shock auteur, rather his films, unpredictable as they may be, are always guided by a clever intelligence.

Happy to be there: The 1970's counts nowadays as a «period piece,» so the gonzo fashions of «Inherent Vice» got a nomination.

There's even a nod to the laborious nature of the formula, as one of the characters, after picking up Fozzie Bear and Gonzo, suggests picking up the rest of the Muppets in a montage.

Frequently referred to in reviews as «gonzo», it's as good a description as any as Dave and his friend John (Rob Mayes) have to try and save Earth from an invasion of inter-dimensional beings.

It's also not clear if certain scenes, such as those involving a gonzo horticulturist or a bonkers hermit (Betty Buckley) are meant to be funny, or funny - scary.

This is the second movie in two years to cast Cooper as a working author (the other was the gonzo, pro-drug «drama» Limitless).

STARRING Kermit the Frog as HIMSELF Miss Piggy as HERSELF Fozzie Bear as HIMSELF Gonzo the Great as HIMSELF Walter as HIMSELF Jason Segel as GARY Amy Adams as MARY Chris Cooper as TEX RICHMAN

STARRING Kermit the Frog as HIMSELF Miss Piggy as HERSELF Fozzie Bear as HIMSELF Gonzo the Great as HIMSELF Sam Eagle as HIMSELF Animal as HIMSELF Ricky Gervais as DOMINIC BADGUY Ty Burrell as JEAN PIERRE NAPOLEON Tina Fey as NADYA

In this way writer - director Bruce Robinson uses the film as a means to dramatize Thompson's gonzo origins as he becomes a part of the stories he reports on.

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is Roger Ebert's sole screenplay credit and it's gonzo as hell.

This final trailer before the film bowed brought as many of the eye - popping thrills as any prior (except maybe the awesome international trailer which played up the gonzo qualities even further).

But the guys behind Cabin delve far deeper into the geek abyss than many viewers will expect, emerging with a gonzo, convoluted send - up that stirs the pot even as it flies off the rails (no spoilers here, kids).

It won't matter at all that Russell's gonzo touches largely serve as artifice, or that the film, for all its screenplay diversity, is more than a little racist.

Scrooge has been portrayed by everyone from actors Alastair Sims to George C. Scott to Michael Caine, and the tale has gotten twists such as being acted out by Jim Henson's Muppets (in their version, Charles Dickens himself was portrayed by blue creature Gonzo) and being updated to the then - present day, as in the 1988 Bill Murray film «Scrooged.»

Elsewhere, pop - culture whiplash is to be expected as audiences take in «Foxcatcher,» featuring Steve Carell in a shape - shifting dramatic role as a psychotic millionaire, or «Birdman,» in which gonzo Mexican director Alejandro Iñárritu gets onetime Batman Michael Keaton to bite the role that made him a star.

Shot in stand - alone chapters as it is being financed, screened, and released, Wrong Cops is gonzo film - making with a unique online strategy.

Gonzo casting like Tyler Perry as the scientist that eventually becomes a bug man may point to this film being a bit more interesting than its precursor, and hey, Megan Fox is always fun to watch.

We started the day on the road as we hauled out to the trail from the Moab - famous Gonzo Inn.

Gritty, clever, and gonzo, this fresh take on the vampire mythos gets darker and creepier as the pages turn.

BetSoft, NetEnt and Microgaming provide the games you'll find in the app such as Starburst, Gonzo's Quest, Jack and the Beanstalk, The Dark Knight, Alkemor's Tower, The Tipsy Tourist and loads more.

WITCHBLADE is also the first American property to be fully adapted in Japan as an original anime and manga by Studio GONZO in 2006.

The dollar is strengthening now, which affects your international investment returns (currency risk as you mentioned) so going gonzo into that right now may not be a good idea considering the headwinds.

Nikki the Knife vs Nvision - GAMEPLAY HD Wow, described to me in a PR release as Gameplay HD's «gonzo» journalist.

Join Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, The Great Gonzo, Animal, and more of the Muppets as the zany gang bring their unique blend of laughs, chaos and adventure to the Hollywood stage.

The Muppets: Movie Adventures features Kermit, Gonzo, Animal, Fozzie, and Miss Piggy as famous Hollywood actors always ready to film the most dangerous and exciting movie scenes.

Writ large in scrawling loose paint and charcoal, Bernstein's wry engagement with text — Uncle Sam Balls Vietnam and Gets V.D. not V.C. (Venereal Disease not Viet Cong)-- evoked the crude gonzo aesthetics of artists such as R. Crumb and Wally Hedrick, presaging the later linguistic permutations of raconteurs like Jean - Michel Basquiat and Raymond Pettibone.

The US comes off looking like a clown, which it is not — but rather as an elephant in a very expensive, high end jewellery shop and / or rats in sewers (both analogies do not do justice to either elephants or rats as Dr. Hunter S. Thopmson of Gonzo fame might quip — it is worse than that).

He's known as «Gonzo the Great» or «the Great Gonzo» to his fans.