Sentences with phrase «by lurid»

In their first, and likely only, full - length interview since Williams was sentenced in October to the mandatory 25 years imprisonment, Michael Edelson and Vince Clifford said journalists inside the courtroom were being traumatized by lurid images displayed on big screens while simultaneously racing to send comments on Twitter and other instant messaging services.

That perception is bolstered by lurid news reports that emphasize the seemingly disproportionate size of settlements and verdicts.

The sculptures that constituted «BODY PARTS & ORACLES,» Chuck Nanney's first solo exhibition in more than a decade, abide by a lurid color scheme of lime green, neon pink, scarlet, and cerulean, which cumulatively generated an electric lyricism.

For this show, Fischl continued to paint surrealist tableaux where the quaintness of small - town America is tainted by lurid forms of sexuality and violence.

The Legend of Tarzan, at its best, does exactly this — presenting a Sunday matinee movie full of good acting, a simple story, and blended CGI... with a calmness that comes with not having your senses assaulted by lurid colour and noise.

Today's lurid headlines were presaged by those lurid emails years ago.

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Whatever is meant here by being taken or left, these sayings do not justify the lurid ideas of the «rapture» sometimes inferred from them and from what Paul says in I Thessalonians 4:17.

Each page was filled with confessions written on postcards by people around the world, and they were lurid, tragic, even hilarious.

And in part it has to do with the caricature of Byzantium created during the Enlightenment by writers such Montesquieu, Voltaire, and Gibbon and made more lurid in the course of the nineteenth century.

Shattered's most lurid revelation is that, after her 2008 loss to Barack Obama, Mrs. Clinton and her husband devised a loyalty scale by which they measured Democratic members of Congress — and then took systematic revenge against those who were either not supportive in the 2008 primary contest with Obama or insufficiently supportive.

The Countess of Forli is not the lurid, sensationalist expose often mistaken for real history by disaffected Catholics.

This all - veg Indian is painted in lurid saccharine pink, you are greeted by colourful bowls of fennel and sweet digestive spices for chewing after a meal.

The Liverpool midfielder gave his followers a candid glimpse into his party - all - night lifestyle by sharing a lurid photo of himself devouring popcorn at his local cinema.

A state senator from Buffalo who announced he would not seek re-election is the subject of an inquiry by state ethics officials amid lurid allegations including sexual harassment, according to a report.

He remains suspended by the Labour Party following lurid sexting allegations and despite the police dropping an investigation into an alleged historic rape.

Other sackings included Education Secretary Nicky Morgan, booed by teachers at their conference, and Culture Secretary John Whittingdale, who faced down lurid stories about his relationship with a dominatrix.

Was tainted by a furore over lurid stories about his relationship with a dominatrix.

That was the verdict last week by the chairman of the UK's Treasury Select Committee on the war being waged over the country's European Union membership, which he says has become an «arms race of ever more lurid claims and counterclaims».

And Starlet, a drama about female friendship that happened to be set against the backdrop of the San Fernando Valley porn industry, set itself apart by refusing to milk its potentially lurid milieu for titillation, comic relief, or sentimental moralizing.

The film retraces the steps of the bad boys and in a whodunit mystery style fills us in on all the lurid details, that also involves a clash with a wise - cracking vengeful gay Asian mobster head (Ken Jeong), an arrest by the police over the stolen police car, the smashing of the Mercedes convertible that Doug's father - in - law (Jeffrey Tambor) let his son - in - law drive and graphic photos in the end credits that further clear up the evening in question.

By the time that American cable viewers were treated to this lavish and lurid miniseries, star Alex Kingston had attained network TV stardom as one of the regulars on NBC's E.R., a fact that served only to stir up additional interest in Kingston's full - blooded portrayal of the fearless Ms. Flanders.

Kemp launched into print modeling as well, appearing in a widely seen campaign for The Gap, then segued into acting with parts in Stephen Sommers» Victorian - era supernatural thriller Van Helsing (2004) and Renny Harlin's lurid psychological thriller Mindhunters (2005), opposite Val Kilmer and LL Cool J. Kemp deftly merged his ballroom finesse and his dramatic evocations with prominent billing in Jon M. Chu's dance - themed urban drama Step Up 2 the Streets (2008); he played Blake Collins, the proprietor of a dance school who finds his chief proclivity — an utter contempt for street dancing — upstaged by the arrival of a brash and talented young newcomer at his school.

THE BLU - RAY DISCS Torso's Blu - ray release is sweetly handled by Blue Underground, its lurid back - of - the - box copy the stuff that puts you right in the grindhouse: «One day she met a man who loved beautiful women... BUT NOT ALL IN ONE PIECE!»

by Walter Chaw The first thirty minutes of Francis Ford Coppola's retelling of the Dracula legend are dazzling and assured: a self - consciously cinematic, fulsome display of technique and loud emotions — expressionism writ large against lurid backdrops and red, backlit shadow plays.

Blood Bath (Arrow Video), a 1966 feature overseen by Roger Corman, has been given a luxurious box set release containing four different versions of the lurid horror tale.

Anchor Bay's handsome presentation of Near Dark rounds out with two very cool trailers (the best scored by John Parr's dirty roadhouse anthem «Naughty Naughty»), gorgeously rendered animated menus, poster (my favourite being the lurid Italian version), still, and behind - the - scenes galleries (featuring some very nice shots of Ms. Wright), and last but never least, Anchor Bay's typically involved and exhaustively informative Talent Bios that, by themselves, would be worth the price of the package.

Directed by Duccio Tessari (Death Occurred Last Night, A Pistol for Ringo), The Bloodstained Butterfly melds the lurid giallo traditions popularized by Dario Argento and Mario Bava with courtroom drama, resulting in a film that is as concerned with forensic detail and legal process as it is with grisly murders and audacious set - pieces.

Made in the wake of a spy movie boom, as the flamboyant James Bond fantasies gave way to disillusioned John Le Carre dramas and grim Cold War adventures like Alfred Hitchcock's Torn Curtain and Topaz, The Kremlin Letter is adapted from a from a twisty best - seller by Noel Behn that (in Huston's words) «had all the makings of a success... all those qualities that were just coming into fashion in 1970: violence, lurid sex, drugs.»

If only the film itself weren't marred by trying to win over viewers in taking already bad events and hyperbolizing their lurid content to make their side unimpeachable.

by Walter Chaw At their best, Dario Argento's films are lurid splashes of Hitchcockian reinvention that bristle with audacity and a pornographer's sensibility.

Lee and Cushing helped create the movie production powerhouse that was Hammer Studios by recreating the Universal monsters Dracula, Frankenstein, and The Mummy in lurid color and expanding that universe.

by jde on In Her Remake of Clint Eastwood's Lurid, Trashy The Beguiled, Sofia Coppola Probes Deeper Rhythms (Film Review)

Directed by Duccio Tessari (Death Occurred Last Night, A Pistol for Ringo), The Bloodstained Butterfly melds the lurid giallo traditions popularised by Dario Argento and Mario Bava with courtroom drama, resulting in a film that is as concerned with forensic detail and legal process as it is with grisly murders and audacious set - pieces.

Indeed, seeing all three in quick succession can make it tricky to tell the films apart — a fact which made the relief of witnessing the lurid violence of Takashi Miike's vampire - gangster film Yakuza Apocalypse in the Quinzaine all the more welcome (Miike's work being the generic flipside to the national cinema developed by his compatriots).

BY WADE SHEELER Tawdry, lurid, and angst - ridden, Richard Fleischer's taut and titillating melodrama, Violent Saturday, plumbs the depths of post World War depravity and displays it in full, much like some of the better 1950s soap -LSB-...]

The book is right in the usual Welsh wheelhouse, both lurid and darkly hilarious, as it follows the adventures of Bruce Robertson, a sex - obsessed, cocaine - addicted, bigoted Scottish police officer who is supposed to be investigating a murder but gets sidetracked by his own peculiarities, worries and hangups ranging from the pranks he pulls on his co-workers to his various sexual conquests.

Instead, right down to the nearly synonymous title we get a lurid, silly «Prisoners» me - too (and that film itself was far from flawless) in which the only additions are a flashback - and - forward structure that never works, the kind of contrivance in which a laptop camera accidentally left transmitting records a crucial conversation (perfectly framed) and a crude, distastefully regressive subtheme which suggests that well, of course that this is what happens to girls and to women (even successful, intelligent, independent women) when they are left alone even for a moment by their menfolk.

James McAvoy takes a depraved walk on the wild side in this gleefully lurid adaptation of a cult novel by Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh.

Instead, right down to the nearly synonymous title we get a lurid, silly «Prisoners» me - too (and that film itself was far from flawless) in which the only additions are a flashback - and - forward structure that never works, the kind of contrivance in which a laptop camera accidentally left transmitting records a crucial conversation (perfectly framed) and a crude, distastefully regressive sub-theme which suggests that, well, of course this is what happens to girls and to women (even successful, intelligent, independent women) when they are left alone even for a moment by their menfolk.

This coming - of - age story centers on two 1970s parochial - school students who express their frustrations by drawing a lurid comic book, but get into trouble when their discontents spill into the real world.

An attractive cast led by a vibrant, all - in Paula Patton and spiffy visuals courtesy of renowned cinematographer Dante Spinotti make the sleaze and predictable plotting go down a bit easier than they would have otherwise, but there's still no disguising the project's fundamentally lurid underpinnings.

by Walter Chaw Gore Verbinski's A Cure for Wellness is lurid unto beautiful, exquisite pulp, just barmy enough to attract a cult and just smart enough to deserve it.

One can't help but imagine what a different filmmaker might have made of this lurid, plot - hole - riddled soap opera with a body count (including a perfect over-the-top image of bourgeois degeneracy: murder by wine corkscrew) or the character of Rachel, a bad drunk whose list of past humiliations includes an incident in which she stumbled into the Watsons» house in an apparent attempt to kidnap their infant daughter.

Directed by Justin Kurzel, who helmed last year's lurid but tedious adaptation of Macbeth, and featuring many returning collaborators from cinematographer Adam Arkapaw to lead actors Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard, Assassin's Creed possesses the talent to become a dynamic and thrilling movie.

Directed by Justin Kurzel, this Macbeth proves a solid entry in what must be considered the Games of Thronesification of the historical film, with an outsized emphasis on the lurid details of medieval warfare.

by Walter Chaw A bona fide auteur in an age of facile pretenders, Guillermo del Toro is the pulp genre's Martin Scorsese, his films filtering devout Catholic imagery through a lurid colour palette and obsessed with insectile machineries and mentor relationships between boys and old men.

The lurid title alone was enough for me to catch this film by Narciso Ibáñez Serrador on a pirate DVD, and my mind was blown when I discovered a c...

A more lurid depiction of war would have benefited the film greatly (most kills are either off - screen or obscured by distance), but the grand set pieces are far from disappointing.

by Walter Chaw I think there's probably profit in taking the tactic that Tobe Hooper's The Mangler is his shot at the lurid comic book genre and, more specifically, the weird self - abnegating prosthetics opera of Warren Beatty's Dick Tracy.

Bathed in lurid Technicolor, melodrama maestro Douglas Sirk's Written on the Wind is the stylishly debauched tale of a Texas oil magnate brought down by the excesses of his spoiled offspring.