Sentences with phrase «at deadpan»

McCarthy is perfect at the deadpan delivery of insult jabs headed toward Bullock's character or any other character in the film.

Notaro's great at deadpan one - liners, which is where most of the humor in the series is generated.

But while Balk is great at deadpanning a funny script laced with irony, the critique sometimes misses the mark.

Not exact matches

Though Starbucks said that the parody store — which was giving away free coffee — was an infringement on its copyright, Fielder deadpanned at a press conference that, «They're smart in not pursuing a case they know they can't win.

In the trailer, she roleplays Frozen with Kristen Bell (and ends up pointing a gun at her), deadpans the line «I guess orange is the new white,» and has a lot of Zack Morris - style breaking - the - third - wall winks at the camera.

BS like what DA was saying is just more of the Circus Crapshow the media have put on all year with the Spurs and Kawhi, the media's attempt at revenge on the team that has by and large kept them out during their recent two decades of success (if not from Timmy's deadpan silence then Kawhi's, then it was Pop insulting their intelligence to their faces on a nightly basis).

The taciturn Phipps, a stout man with a round face and a perpetual squint, turned to his kids at the finish and said, deadpan, «Well, that was all right.»

«When I announced yesterday that I'm running for governor, one of Cuomo's top surrogates dismissed me as an «unqualified lesbian,»» the «Sex and the City» actress Nixon deadpanned to supporters during a campaign launch party at the Stonewall Inn.

Grammy - nomiated comedian Steven Wright talks about his upcoming stand - up act at Turning Stone Casino, and how he maintains that perfect deadpan delivery.

The audience laughed at that — and also as he recounted his mother's deadpan response when he asked her how she wound up with six children, all but two of whom have different fathers: «It was the 1960s and people were having a lot of sex.»

The humor at Stand - Up Comedy for Science often took a cerebral turn — Robert Mac deadpanned that a simple solution to instantly decrease the rising temperatures due to climate change would be converting to the metric system.

At once profoundly dignified, as birds of such ancient lineage should be, they are at the same time masters of deadpan clowning, particularly when two or three birds contend for the same fisAt once profoundly dignified, as birds of such ancient lineage should be, they are at the same time masters of deadpan clowning, particularly when two or three birds contend for the same fisat the same time masters of deadpan clowning, particularly when two or three birds contend for the same fish.

With deadpan humor (and English subtitles), the World Cup competitors tell a reporter from the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) that it's plain and simple: They really are no good at soccer.

McGuigan doesn't allow his movie to suffer from delusions of grittiness; he's aiming for deadpan urban sophistication, and even when he doesn't hit the mark, you can at least appreciate the direction he's headed in.

This is an arrestingly sophisticated and sardonic sitcom, with deliciously deadpan narration and stylish flashbacks, about mostly self - absorbed characters at odds with one another and the world at large.

Her work in Hartley's films established the blonde, strong - jawed actress as a solid talent with a proclivity for deadpan humor, something she has also exhibited in a variety of film, television, and stage productions including Tom Noonan's What Happened Was..., a darkly humorous date movie that earned Sillas particular praise.A native of Brooklyn, where she was born June 5, 1965, Sillas studied at the acting conservatory at the State University of New York at Purchase.

In some ways, Lucy represents the point at which both roles converge, and Johansson has the unusually difficult job here of subtly conveying her character's observations, reactions and eventual epiphanies in a mostly deadpan, flattened - out register that becomes only more subdued as the film progresses.

Anderson's deadpan readings of the barbs brought down the house, and though he did have to cherry - pick to find the bad notices («Life Aquatic» and «Darjeeling» each have many ardent fans), there was an underlying acknowledgment that his professional progress had hit a speed bump or two at that time.

Keep high expectations at bay, and an open mind, and you might find this deadpan comedy to be dead on the money.

His longing pre-fight ode to peanut butter - chocolate ice cream — «You can get it at Wal - Mart,» he deadpans — is, in its way, as revealing about the suffering athlete as anything in Black Swan, not to snark too much on Darren Aronofsky, whose recent films till similar ground.

Don't get us wrong, this is no deadpan drama, just we get to see the slightest glimpse at Wade Wilson when the smiles, wisecracks and bullets are put to one side.

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.

While this quirky mockumentary about the making of a stage musical didn't strike it big at the box office (earning less than $ 3 million worldwide), it soon became a cult classic for its deadpan humor and oddly lovable characters.

While he's an inherently warm screen presence, Colin Farrell — who won a Golden Globe for The Lobster — again proves perfect at delivering an off - puttingly deadpan script, which won best screenplay at Cannes this year.

Still, this tame but fitfully funny goof on suspense cinema at least assembles an agreeable guest list — from McAdams, beamingly charming even when her character is fishing a bullet out of her husband's arm, to a hysterically deadpan Jesse Plemons, playing the awkward, heartbroken cop who lives next door.

Simultaneously, Miyagi is exposed to the indignities of being mortified by walking in on a brassiere'd Julie, wandering into her wet stockings hanging in the shower, and deadpanning his incredulity at the stupidity of the girly breed.

The Comanche does have a few funny moments and deadpan quips, and Depp even finds some chemistry with Hammer, but Tonto is mostly buried in a character who's as confused at the movie.

His isn't a deadpan commentary on the action at hand, more like a shot of schoolboy innocence placed in a situation of galaxy - crumbling significance.

As a longtime character actor who has shined among ensemble casts (think: Juno's deadpan dad or Bob, a laid off white collar worker, in two of director Jason Reitman's Oscar - bait films), Whiplash co-star J.K. Simmons appreciated receiving the Spotlight Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival.

Perfecting his style of absurdist deadpan comedy, Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth) introduces new rules, activities, and gruesome punishments at every turn: Matches are made based on arbitrary similarities; trial couples are assigned children; and time extensions can be earned by hunting down renegade singles who live in the woods and only listen to electronic music.

At the Formosa, Basinger said she experienced «the seduction of Curtis Hanson,» referring to his eloquence and deadpanning that he was «very manipulative.»

As with The Lobster all dialogue is delivered in an emotionless deadpan that is increasingly at odds with the events as they unfold.

Christian's humorless, privileged, creepy intensity might turn out to be a gift for Dornan; if he ever proves himself even halfway adept at playing goofy, sweet, or deadpan, he'll seem like he's performed a miracle instead of fulfilled a basic romantic - lead task.

Favorites of the Moon: 30th Anniversary Edition (Cohen, Blu - ray, DVD), winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival, is a deadpan satire of modern life and social hypocrisy with characters, rich and poor alike, from a lively Paris suburb whose lives criss - cross and tangle with one another.

Rodrigo placed the film in his top films at this year's New York Film Festival, but agreed he had trouble connecting to the «deadpan humanist portraits» Payne employs.

In the vein of his previous screenplays for «Chuck and Buck,» «The Good Girl» and «Beatriz at Dinner,» White depicts the darker side of human nature with deadpan humor and daring honesty.

The scene where Renton and Sick Boy go on a credit - card - stealing spree at a Battle of the Boyne celebration night and end up becoming the entertainment is surely destined for YouTube immortality, and the pair's deadpan application for council funding for an artisanal leisure destination (a bordello, in fact) is satirical gold.

The film begins as almost a series of deadpan vignettes — and Braff, who can get through entire scenes without hardly moving at all, certainly gives good deadpan.

It's a smarter, less - angry version of Transamerica while featuring the same number of depressed gay people and Harold & Maude-esque teenage boys; it's got the Wes Anderson stamp of approval for its coterie of sage oddballs, deadpan surrogates, and family decompositions; it has a stellar cast doing extremely predictable work at a stellar level; and it comes with the Sundance stamp of approval predestined for it because Little Miss Sunshine is a summary of every independent film since «dysfunction» became a hot - key button on critics» keyboards.

Though «People Places Things» is tailored to Clement's strengths as an actor with well - placed moments of deadpan humor, it also gives him a chance to flex his dramatic muscle, or at the very least, showcase a different, more mature side compared to his goofier work in «Flight of the Conchords,» «What We Do in the Shadows» and «Dinner for Schmucks.»

With pitch - perfect performances, inventive set pieces and a cutting deadpan wit, The Square is a hilarious, unique and often surreal look at idealism, hypocrisy and cynicism in the modern world.

That's the message at the heart of writer - director Jeff Baena's debut Life After Beth, which begins its life as a sensitive indie comedy with a winning deadpan shtick and ends up salivating and snarling after developing an appetite for riotous, blood - splattered slapstick.

That's the message at the heart of writer - director Jeff Baena's debut Life After Beth, which begins its life as a sensitive indie comedy with a winning deadpan shtick and ends up salivating and snarling after developing an...

And then we get the two true standouts of the piece: Marvel, in a pair of mousy glasses and as unflattering a straight - hair hairstyle as you can imagine, shines as the oft - neglected Meyerowitz sister one deadpan punchline at a time («Jean, do you want to say something?»

Still, the leads remain masters at mining improvisational gold from even the thinnest material: Peele can register panic in a few hilariously shifty eye movements, and the motormouthed Key retains his flair for both the over-the-top pronouncement and the deadpan non sequitur («Wordness to the turdness,» he notes in a failed attempt at gangsta speak).

People can laugh openly at a Lemmon schnook without derailing him or the comedy, but Sellers thrives best in the midst of deadpan elegance on the part of his fellow players as well as the pristine set waiting to be demolished.

For centuries, vampires have provided handy metaphors for social and physical dilemma, but in the stylishly muted deadpan romance «A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night,» the threat is personal.

The actress excels at playing a schoolteacher at odds with her inner turmoil in the French director's deadpan comedy.

Donald Glover's Atlanta is well played top to bottom, but no one gets at the show's surreal larkiness faster than the wild - eyed, deadpan Stanfield, as one of the three central friends («I know you don't know me... but could I measure your tree?»).

Baz Luhrmann's Australian cult classic manages to be surprisingly touching and flat - out hilarious all at once, with wild costumes, farcical situations, and deadpan use of the mockumentary format hiding laughs behind laughs that you'll only find on a rewatch.