Sentences with phrase «comics riffing»

The chillingly gung - ho darkness that Johnson lends his comic riffs would be the story, if only the director, Luke Greenfield, didn't play the movie solely for laughs, which are few and far between.

However, that makes it sound like a one - joke premise, a goof, some kind of light comic riff on Melancholia or 4:44 Last Day on Earth.

Yes, Tusk is a comic riff on The Human Centipede.

A comic riff on The Omen for those who missed 2013's Hell Baby, it conflates the usual fear of life change with a more garden - variety terror over flesh - eating moppets.

David Betancourt writes about all aspects of comic book culture for The Washington Post's Comic Riffs blog.

Murphy, in his first role since 2009, is in full Eddie Murphy mode, with comic riffs and astonished double takes.

The camera, the design (Gerald Sullivan), the editing (David Trachtenberg) are always doing stuff — there are always oddball flourishes like sudden camera tilts or exaggerated symmetries (it's almost superfluous these days comparing such effects to Wes Anderson, they're so much part of the landscape) and little comic riffs, like the photo of Hugh Jackman on Rachel's wall, which suddenly lectures Greg in the actual voice of Hugh Jackman.

«I think he's giving his best performance ever,» «Last Jedi» producer Ram Bergman, Johnson's frequent film partner, tells Comic Riffs.

The Post's Comic Riffs explains why it's one of the best Star Wars films to date.

«I certainly presume that she will don the habit, as well,» Hudlin told The Washington Post's Comic Riffs.

Here's a list of heroes that Comic Riffs believes could form the next roster of Avengers for Marvel Studios.

«I'm totally surprised,» Mariko Tamaki tells The Post's Comic Riffs from her San Francisco home.

[Comic Riffs]

Comic Riffs asked one of these writer - artists, Frank Santoro -LRB-» Storeyville,» the excellent new «Pompeii»), to write an appreciation of PictureBox.

Not exact matches

As a college student, Kaling illustrated a daily comic for the school paper called «Badly Drawn Girl,» which «riffed on day - to - day campus life and took a witty stab at everything from fraternity life to alumni.»

The comics also poked fun at themselves, as when Kasha Patel riffed on a NASA press release describing the recent Space - X test - rocket explosion as a «non-nominal launch» to lament a recent «non-nominal» date.

I love the glamour and wit in his work, like this riff on a comic (above).

The results are occasionally amusing — Griffin, for one, turns out to be surprisingly adept at stone - faced riffing — but more often lack in anything resembling an acute sense of comic timing.

Helmer Craig Gillespie's sweetly off - kilter film plays like a Coen brothers riff on Garrison Keillor's «Lake Woebegone» tales, defying its lurid premise with a gentle comic drama grounded in reality.

A franchise that knows its fans, the Deadpool series caters to its target audience with endless riffing on comic - book lore.

Instead we get some nice comic asides, including another cameo by Stan Lee and a riff on those mega-stretchy purple pants Banner always seems to wear.

It was in 2002 when specific comic book story beats really began to bleed into feature films: Sam Raimi's Spider - Man substituted Mary Jane Watson for Gwen Stacy but did a riff on the pivotal «Death of Gwen Stacy» story when the Green Goblin dropped MJ off the Brooklyn Bridge (which Marc Webb's The Amazing Spider - Man 2 in 2014 fully committed to by killing off Emma Stone's Gwen Stacy).

As soon as Alton flicks through the pages of a Superman comic — itself another riff on a parenting parable with Ma and Pa Kent coming to terms with raising a special child from another world — the statement is clear.

It riffs a bit from David Fincher's The Game, with the comic tone of Horrible Bosses.

Based on the hit comic book of the same name, the film finds a bunch of colorful supervillains riffing off each other while trying to save the world (or just themselves).

The only comic moments in «The Leisure Class» rest on Weeks and Bell's improvisational ability to riff and bicker, which is funny at first and then peters out because it has nowhere to go.

Release date: June 15 Cast: Holly Hunter, Craig T. Nelson, Sarah Vowell, Samuel L. Jackson Directed by: Brad Bird (The Incredibles) Why we're excited: It's been over a decade since Pixar first blew audiences away with Brad Bird's self - consciously retro comic book riff on mixing family life with crime - fighting.

It's all riffs on where Steven Spielberg got all his hit movie ideas (his voice is heard in a phone call with Paul), movie references from «E.T. and «Starman» to «Raiders of the Lost Ark» and even «Lorenzo's Oil» and half - hearted shots at the Comic Conning of America.

Riffing on Allen's Manhattan, Stanley Kubrick's Lolita, and the glamour of classic Hollywood dramas, this poky, teleplay - paced black - and - white comic drama juggles a lot of ideas about lenience, parenthood, and, yes, sexual predation.

«Although Ms. Kidman and Mr. Jackman are initially riffing on Katharine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart's prickly courtship in «The African Queen» — later, as they heat up, they slip into a sexier Scarlett - and - Rhett dynamic — only Ms. Kidman really embraces the more comic and potentially embarrassing aspects of her role, giving herself over to Mr. Luhrmann and his occasionally cruel camera with a pronounced lack of vanity.

The LEGO Movie was arguably the best animated movie of 2014, even though it was completely snubbed at the Oscars, and this year's The LEGO Batman Movie was an enjoyable riff on the classic comic book hero.

Kick - Ass was a great riff on the comic - book genre, X-Men: First Class reignited people's interest in that universe, and Kingsman: The Secret Service was a fun take on the spy genre.

He jokingly revealed some images including a Mickey Mouse Wolverine and a Winnie the Pooh riff on «Face it, Tiger, you just hit the jackpot» featuring Tigger and Eeyore, but the actual announcement was a special 8 - page comic tie - in to the incoming Christmas special sequel «Prep & Landing: Mansion: Impossible.»

The paintings of food, more than Warhol's silkscreens or Lichtenstein's comic book riffs, seem the most pop - ish pieces in the exhibition.