Sentences with phrase «as schlub»

• Moses as schlub, The Invention of Lying: Ricky Gervais's Sermon on the Stoop, improvising commandments off the backs of two pizza boxes...

Not exact matches

Elected last year as the successor to the iconic and bombastic Marty Markowitz, Mr. Adams is every bit the pun - loving ham that Mr. Markowitz, the ultimate cheerleader of Brooklyn's swift transformation from schlub hub into Lena Dunham's lucrative playground, always was.

Buscemi is an old hand at stringy curmudgeons, but Del is a subtler and more complex creation than most of them, and the actor seizes the chance to muddy the waters: the character is a genuinely well - meaning mentor to Charley, as well as, professionally speaking, a treacherous schlub.

The film is periodically enlivened by some of the supporting players, including Paul Walter Hauser as Shawn Eckhardt, the supposed mastermind of the Kerrigan assault whom the movie depicts as a world - class schlub.

Released: July 28 Cast: Menashe Lustig, Yoel Falkowitz, Ruben Niborski, Meyer Schwartz Director: Joshua Z Weinstein Why it's great: In this solemn stunner, a certifiable schlub struggles to keep his job as a clerk at a grocery store, be a father to his stubborn son (and remain in custody), move on from his recently deceased wife, and live up to society's high standard — Menashe isn't just another Brooklynite, he's an Orthodox Jew suffocating to death on the rules and observances.

is more entertaining (and revealing) in a present tense, capturing Frank as an inveterate schlub septuagenarian.

To be fair, it also rips off, shot for shot, moments from Sam Raimi; from Reservoir Dogs in a poor, bleeding - out schlub dubbed «Dead Man» (Akie Kotabe), who fans of «The Simpsons» will recognize as Frank Grimes; and from Luc Besson, in particular (and if you're a carbon copy of Besson, the image fidelity is a field of giant pixels at this point).

Arguing William H. Macy is the last actor fit to be a hitman discredits how he makes Alex the perfect hitman — an unassuming schlub who bumps into a man, fatally bumps him off and makes a modest gesture of apology as he continues walking.

The Margot of the title, as played to alien, frostbitten perfection by Nicole Kidman, is a NEW YORKER contributor (and Jennifer Jason Leigh, as Margot's sister Pauline, played Mrs. Parker herself once upon a time) who's ventured out to wintry Long Island to talk her sister out of marrying schlub Malcolm (Jack Black).

This latest installment, with a very Apatow - approved schlub, includes Rogen taking on a new on - screen role as a baseball cap - wearing patriarch, albeit to an Australian wife (played by a hilarious Rose Byrne) and their young baby Stella.

Showalter (also starring as CPA Elliot Sherman) plays the titular schlub, the «Baxter» being a creature of extreme nerdy social incompetence most often glimpsed in frown and tux in the retreating background of Dustin Hoffman rescuing Katharine Ross from the altar.

Steve Carell grounds the whole movie as the loveable schlub Andy, who pals around with his co-workers, and eventually is invited to their poker game where it's revealed that he's never had sex.

I'm sick and tired of these «unconventional» (read as: crass, schlub, drunk, meta, etc.) super hero movies being hailed as amazing as if they're the first to do it or «we have never seen anything like this».

Dame Maggie Smith stars as Grace, a well - meaning sociopath who becomes the housekeeper in the house of schlub priest Walter (Rowan Atkinson), his frustrated wife (Kristin Scott Thomas), and his nymphomaniac daughter (Tamsin Egerton).

DeVito also stars as Vic DeSalvo, a schlub from New Jersey whose family's trucking business made him rich.

Among its four subjects, the one Djordjevic is most likely to adapt into a narrative feature is the schlub who enters the porn industry as an indirect way of tracking down the starlet who used to be his girlfriend.

As a pair of dumpy suburban England schlubs who decide to go camping, Lowe and Oram become these characters, people who are probably together because no one else would have anything to do with them.

6 — Horrible Bosses 2 — The schlubs from Horrible Bosses are even less ept as kidnappers than they were as murderers.

When we last reported on «El Presidente,» the high - concept buddy movie about a clean cut Secret Service agent and the disheveled, alcoholic schlub of an ex-president he's assigned to protect, Tom Cruise was loosely attached, as was «Recount» director Jay Roach, with Robert Downey, Jr. being eyed for the pivotal role of the ex-prez.

Tukel plays a neurotic schlub named Erik who lives somewhere in either Greenpoint or Williamsburg, eats at cool outdoor restaurants and dates impossibly attractive women who seem a bit out of reach for his short, chubby, hairy, dickish persona (the movie's title has been abbreviated as «S.O.B.» on posters for good reason).

I am tired of reading how a «conventional life» is inferior and you should quit your boring life and «travel like me» implying their path in life is better than that of «all the poor schlubs» as you put it that live vicariously through their blogs.