Sentences with phrase «comic caper»

Comic caper novels, psychological thrillers, and history - mystery blends dominate the best crime fiction reviewed in Booklist from May 1, 2015, through April 15, 2016.

It would also be their most uneven work, trying so very hard to deliver a zany comic caper, succeeding in small moments while completely botching the big picture.

The fact that these players are lacking any real depth or substance is actually of little consequence, for Ritchie drops them in a clever, complex, and comic caper that takes its share of unexpected twists and turns.

Perhaps the best British comedy since the heyday of Python, since John Cleese deliberately attempted to move away from satirical silliness and back to a more inclusive, plot - driven, unmistakably British brand of comic caper.

His latest is a»30s - set, mittel - European comic caper named The Grand Budapest Hotel which was inspired by the writings of Viennese author, Stefan Zweig.

In our writers» favourite film series, Peter Beech takes aim at Martin McDonagh's comic caper, in which two Catholic crims lose their cool in Belgium

But critics are crazy about this comic caper.

Soderbergh and screenwriter Rebecca Blunt turn such misfortunes into the spinning gears of a comic caper that finds Jimmy hatching a plan to snatch the cash from a vault buried deep in the Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Director Niwas's comic caper consists of a few incidents patched together making up a wafer thin plotline.

So instead of a vicious drubbing, we get in - jokes and comic capers, with some rather half - hearted sentiments about race and the environment mixed in confusingly with all the casual stereotyping of African Americans, Russians and homosexuals.

This stand - alone thriller combines high - octane suspense with comic capering, as two married couples — one a PI team, the other a hit couple for hire — spar with one another until they both find themselves in the crosshairs of a gang of Russian jewel thieves.

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But you wouldn't know otherwise; this is really wonderfully done, and the little guys caper about like silent comics.

Almost magically, «The Walk» transforms itself into a beguiling caper movie, full of comic energy and nimble ingenuity.

Readers of the original comic - book will already know that the sequel to Mark Millar's original hyper - violent vigilante caper that KA2 - as no - one is calling it - is very much HG's baby, giving her a lot of time to explore who she really is after Big Daddy shuffled off this mortal coil last time around.

Peyton Reed «s Marvel origin story didn't feel like most comic book movies because of its crime caper tropes.

Charles Crichton directs this amiable caper with good humor and applies crack comic timing to the heist scene and climactic chase.

Returning for some classic comic - strip manna, Spielberg tag - teamed it up with beardy brother - in - arms Peter Jackson for this whiz - bang motion - capture caper which offered a spectacular yet reverential take on Hergé's hallowed creation — the tenacious boy detective with the skyward quiff and a trusty mutt named Snowy.

Since his band of merry men is made up of Matt Damon, Bill Murray, John Goodman, Jean Dujardin, Hugh Bonneville and Bob Balaban the rest of the movie is spent making sure each character has had a caper, a comic pratfall, a sentimental moment, and some drama.

Kick - Ass director Matthew Vaughn brought a second Mark Millar comic book to the big screen this year with the hit spy caper Kingsman: The Secret Service, which sees Taron Egerton's Eggsy joining an elite spy agency and saving the world from Samuel L. Jackson's mad billionaire philanthropist.

The Pink Panther 2 (PG for suggestive humor, action and mild epithets) Steve Martin reprises the title role as the bumbling Jacques Clouseau for a comic crime caper which has the hapless inspector traversing the globe in search of the international jewel thief who has purloined the priceless Pink Panther diamond.

The film is a caper in constant motion, kinetic and comic, and a timeless tale of friendship, honor, and promises fulfilled.

At times, the shifts between melodrama and heist caper recall Argo, but Trumbo's stakes are lower, its goals are more diffuse, and its comic elements aren't as separated.

Three of cinema's finest veteran actors headline this comic crime - caper, as Al Pacino's recently released gangster Val is reunited with two former best pals...

If the very survival of poise in Lubitsch was always involved with simultaneously fueling and controlling the fires of emotion, in Edwards the impeccable precariousness of comic order often finds expression in thriller elements, as in a masterly post-credits robbery sequence that is tense, fascinating, as beautifully machined as the fantastic caper itself — and funny too, in a thoroughly distinctive alliance of the giddiness inherent in breathbating suspense and the melodramatic effectiveness of slapstick violence.

Actually, the film shifts gears more than that, turning into a Gigi-esque romance and a return to the swindle caper, but all the while, it retains its comic tone to deliver mild amusement and a few choice laughs.

Rian Johnson, who received great critical acclaim for his modern film noir homage, Brick, crafts another genre homage to the old con capers with The Brothers Bloom, mixing the stories you'd find in such films as The Sting with the light comedy you'd occasionally find in a Marx Brothers comic adventure.

Down the road we meet more extended family and long lost friends, including a pair of low - life cousins, and an old crony played with cagey charm by Stacy Keach: the action is sandwiched between a blackly comic side trip to the family graveyard, and a slapstick «air compressor caper» at a neighboring farm.

Pitched at the mid-budget level he loves and Hollywood often neglects, Logan Lucky is prime Soderbergh: a sure - handed and warmly comic heist caper, it arrives packing layers of heart, smarts and surprises under a well - appointed hood.

They are «Comic Book Caper», «Reflections in Ghoulish Eye» and «The Scooby Coupe».

Following a strong debut at Sundance this year, a new online trailer is out for the darkly comic crime caper film «American Animals» about two friends who attempt one of the most brazen art heists in history.

It paved the way for further R - rated comic book capers.

4:00 pm — TCM — Topkapi One of the classic heist capers, with a group of ragtag criminals (led by Melina Mercouri and including comic relief Peter Ustinov) planning to steal a jewel - encrusted dagger from the Topkapi Museum in Istanbul.

Logan Lucky (PG - 13 for profanity and crude comments) Oscar - winner Steven Soderbergh (for Traffic) comes out of retirement after four years to direct, shoot and edit this comic crime caper revolving around two brothers (Channing Tatum and Adam Driver) who hatch a plan to pull a heist at the Charlotte Motor Speedway during NASCAR's Coca - Cola 600 car race Ensemble cast includes Daniel Craig, Hilary Swank, Seth MacFarlane, Katie Holmes, Dwight Yoakam and Riley Keough.

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Square Enix Collective has announced today that Deadbeat Productions» Deadbeat Heroes, a brawling crime - caper set in a comic book - inspired world, will hit PC and Xbox GO →