Sentences with phrase «comic gold as»

Not exact matches

Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams strike comic gold — or at least silver plate — as a hyper - competitive game - crazy couple whose suburban couples gaming party goes way off the rails when an equally competitive globe - trotting / high rolling brother to the husband (Kyle Chandler, cast against type) comes home, initiates a murder / kidnapping mystery game that is in turn hijacked by real hoodlums who play for keeps.

Right away on paper, a project that pits Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis against each other as two boobs in a political race sounds like outrageous comic gold.

Though she was remarkably grand in 2005's V for Vendetta — putting in one of the finest ever performances in a «comic book» movie — it was her turn as a self - destructive dancer in Darren Aronofsky's one - of - a-kind Black Swan that saw Portman earn Oscar gold.

If the Soul Stone is orange in the films as it is in the comics (and orange isn't that far off from gold), it would be more than fitting.

In the comics, Killmonger is typically depicted as shirtless, but dons a gold and red jaguar armor with a long pointed mask in a dual with T'Challa.

Goldie Hawn's cinematic return after a fifteen year absence is cause for immediate celebration, but pairing her with Amy Schumer as a mother - daughter team promises uproarious comic gold.

Motor - mouthed Megan intermittently provides comic relief as a constant reminder that the escalating tension between Annie and Helen shouldn't be taken seriously, especially once the former finds herself being wooed by an Irish cop with a heart of gold (Chris O'Dowd).

Though the film returns to Alan Tudyk again and again as if mining comic gold, his turn as a gym rat who thinks he's a pirate remains more puzzling than funny.

Whether you believe Jerry Lewis is a comic genius, a braying clown, a shrewd show - biz pro who carefully cultivated a popular stage and screen persona, a hopeless egotist with a cringing need for attention, or simply a comic with a gift for manic physical humor that clicked with audiences in the fifties and sixties, most people agree that The Nutty Professor was his greatest film as a director and his most interesting variation on the child - man figure he had transformed into Hollywood gold.