Sentences with phrase «by scrappy»

While being represented by the scrappy Canada gallery in New York, Bradley first signed onto a joint partnership with the higher - profile Gavin Brown before decamping late last year to show with Canada and Gagosian.

Cheadle spent years raising the budget for this one, and even by the scrappy indie standards of «make your own movie, no one will tell you what to do,» this one's a jaw dropper.

Fueled by a scrappy, improvisatory energy, this prison - set boxing drama pits a recently incarcerated heavyweight champ (Ving Rhames) against a yard favorite (Wesley Snipes).

Said SAS is led by a scrappy and charismatic

The show, inspired by the scrappy encyclopedia of facts and antics of the same name, is loaded with imagination and zippy characters that will... Read more

This one, however, was developed by a scrappy little team at Tachyon Inc. and published by 5pb.

Disney has really carved out a genre for itself: the underdog sports story as cultural melting pot, complete with the Middle American white coach / scout / father figure whose preconceptions are overturned by scrappy kids who overcome every hurdle with heart and hard work.

It's just your average boxing movie about a scrappy fighter making a scrappy comeback supported by his scrappy family.

So early in the season it seems Danville, led by scrappy Keanu Andrade and skillful Kyle Makaiwi at the halfback positions, is poised for another run.

Not exact matches

According to a number of recent news reports, German media conglomerate Axel Springer is considering either dramatically increasing its stake in or acquiring all of Business Insider, the scrappy upstart news operation co-founded by former Wall Street analyst Henry Blodget.

Five months after being whipped by the broadcast goliaths at the U.S. Supreme Court, the scrappy streaming TV startup has finally thrown in the towel.

That's because in the world of Amazon's series, based on the novel by Philip K. Dick, the Axis powers won World War II and occupied America, where a scrappy resistance movement is taking shape.

Barnes argues that the smaller amounts, typically $ 20,000 or less, allow students to run their companies and stay in school — as well as boost their entrepreneurial education by forcing them to be scrappy and resourceful.

Though he was surrounded by athletes who were much faster and stronger than he was, the scrappy Plank earned a scholarship as a special - teams standout after his second season.

By combining the talents of a lean sales force, a small marketing crew, and a scrappy product team, boutique firms can outdo the competition and close large - scale sales.

Lovely and colorful, this green salsa has nice, medium - sized chunks of the varying components — onions, green bells and poblanos and accented by flakes of cilantro all in a scrappy solution that's thankfully not too watery or drippy.

Honestly, this looked a little more vintage Sounders match... very scrappy and very attacking by both sides.

Last year they made the Elite8 but as a scrappy 14 seed and took some Teams by surprise..

They had their scrappiest defenders covering both of them, which is a smart decision by Butler.

Then the body blow to Arsenal's title ambitions was delivered in scrappy style by defender Williams.

A scrappy first half followed by a much improved second and superb extra time display meant that Arsenal are in the FA Cup final.

The second period started in scrappy fashion, with the back - and - forth football of the first 45 minutes being replaced by a battle for midfield supremacy.

The reputation of» El Clasico» was left in tatters following a scrappy, petulant opening leg in which the opening 60 minutes was marred by some shameful play - acting, handbags and a controversial red card for Real Madrid's Pepe.

Anything less than Utd scoring 4 will be looked on by Wenger as a victory.Thats where we are now.A scrappy win against the bottom club after the previous two defeats tills you we are nothing more than average.Best thing to happen yesterday was Forehead getting injured we can only hope Santos and Ramsey get injured before OT

Spurs turned in a scrappy display in the first leg at Rodney Parade and were saved embarrassment by Harry Kane's late equaliser that took the tie to a replay.

The scrappy probe managed a rare resurrection after getting staunch support from the National Academy of Sciences and the community of outer - planet researchers, along with passionate lobbying by The Planetary Society, a nonprofit group.

Bring up the relationship between iodine and thyroid disorders, and people inevitably put the gloves on and get scrappy — not just an intellectual back and forth banter, supported by exchange of peer - reviewed scientific studies and empirically validated literature — but a throw - down, knock - out fight, where claims are made on the basis of anecdotal evidence based on what so - and - so blogger said, without a single primary or secondary source citation.

And in the end, the only thing that really matters is that the filmmakers were market - savvy enough to frame Atom — the junkyard bot adopted by Goyo's character — as a puppyish, adorably scrappy, Iron Giant - style affection machine and, more importantly, to pair him with Goyo and allow them both to run roughshod over Jackman.

Zamperini, as played by the solid Jack O'Connell (watch for him in next year's gruelingly tense «' 71»), is a likably scrappy kid who, thanks to the care and discipline of his older brother Pete, uses the speed he has utilized in the past to avoid the law and focuses it on running the mile in track.

Inspired by an incredible true story, comes the gritty, affectionately humorous, yet stirring comeback tale of the unlikely boxing hero, «Irish» Micky Ward (Mark Wahlberg), and his half - brother, Dicky Eklund (Christian Bale), who had to come apart as opponents before coming together as brothers in a scrappy fight to win a long - shot championship and strengthen the bonds of their family.

What's ultimately so refreshing and thrilling about Ash vs. Evil Dead, whose premiere episode is helmed by Raimi, is how charmingly and giddily scrappy it feels, in both narrative and aesthetic, and the zooming, seemingly effortless pace at which Raimi keeps the bloody, widespread mayhem going.

The recreations of key scenes from that kitsch classic are shot with stunningly tacky verisimilitude and played to the scrappy hilt by an up - for - anything cast, including Zac Efron, Ari Graynor, Josh Hutcherson and Jacki Weaver.

Up in the flak - filled clouds, Louis (English actor Jack O'Connell) flashes back to his childhood in the 1920s, as a scrappy immigrant kid (played by C. J. Valleroy) in Torrance, Calif., heading for a life of violence and petty crime.

Instead, the Disney - produced and vaguely Disney - inspired Tomorrowland wastes Bird's talent, a scrappy female lead, and Clooney gravitas on what amounts to a feature - length prologue; this movie about a retro - futuristic utopia in an alternate dimension accessed by the world's best and brightest takes approximately forever to get going, marking the first time Bird's whiz - bang set pieces haven't set his movie's pace.

Sometimes the movie strays into Wag the Dog territory (especially in scenes with Alan Arkin as a scrappy L.A. producer thrilled by the game); elsewhere, it has some of the big - budget period vibe of Spielberg's Munich.

Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story has become a sports cult film of sorts — one of the best of the Frat Pack movies — telling the story of the scrappy dodgeball team at Average Joe's gym, led by Peter La Fleur (Vince Vaughn), going against Ben Stiller's White Goodman and the formidable Purple Cobras from his Globo Gym.

Nevertheless it's a strong opener as this scrappy pup is taken in by Apollo's widow Mary Anne (here played by Phylicia Rashad) following the death of his mother and subsequent institutionalisation.

With «Frances Ha,» Noah Baumbach's directing career entered a new stage emboldened by his work with co-writer and partner Greta Gerwig, though the scrappy nature of that narrative and Gerwig's vibrant performance led to the impression that it was more her voice than his driving the proceedings.

Naturally, the task of easing these conflicts falls to a scrappy band of outsiders, led by Newt, the eccentric foreigner, and Tina Goldstein (Katherine Waterston), a former magical investigator trying to earn her way back into MACUSA's good graces.

Laura Dern, who plays Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo, mentioned she was particularly moved by Ms. Fisher's bravery and lack of shame, hinting that Leia has some humorous moments in THE LAST JEDI to be that sassy, scrappy character we love.

On the heels of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake, the newfangled Dawn Of The Dead streamlines another scrappy horror classic by discarding everything special about it in favor of pure visceral effect.

The Cubs ultimately needed 10 innings and a 17 - minute rain delay to finally defeat the scrappy Indians by 8 - 7.

This year's winner, Divines, written and directed by French - Moroccan filmmaker Houda Benyamina, rivals Girlhood as a portrait of combustible banlieue femininity, emanating raw energy and scrappy good humor even as it builds to an unexpectedly tragic and horrifying finale.

It's an underdog story tailor - made for Hollywood: a scrappy fighter, plagued by doubters and naysayers, overcomes everything in its path to achieve victory.

New Deal Used Cars, the scrappy underdog, is run by kindly but simple Luke Fuchs (Jack Warden), whose small sales staff includes Russell as corrupt Rudy Russo, Gerrit Graham as superstitious sex addict Jeff, hyper intelligent dog Toby, and clueless mechanic Jim, last seen in Spielberg's 1941.

She is scrappy and barely getting by on her bike courier service paycheck.

Some of the individual scenes are brilliant, notably the flirtatious encounter between Cranston's mangy, scrappy mutt and Johansson's luminous, ethereal show dog, which both actors make funny by playing their lines completely straight.

The plight of the hostages isn't nearly as engaging as the attempts by CIA specialist Tony Mendez (Affleck, in an impressively muted turn, buried under shoulder - length hair and a scrappy beard) to convince his colleagues the trick will work.

The latest effort from Rodrigo Garcia, Albert Nobbs follows the title character (Glenn Close), a turn - of - the - century woman who has spent years working as a male butler, as her orderly existence is threatened by the arrival of a scrappy newcomer (Aaron Johnson's Joe).

Squalid shapeless interiors seething with serfs, consorts, and half - wits open up to pre-modern landscapes of dirt, wood, and stone populated by armies of monks and scrappy peasants.