Sentences with phrase «deadpan commentary»
By twisting the everyday into weirder and more ambiguous shapes, Cooper seeks to root out deeper psychological truths and provide deadpan commentary on our contemporary world.
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This is helped tremendously by the perfect delivery of Benedict Cumberbatch, with his deadpan commentary as he learns the basics of magic and sorcery.
His isn't a deadpan commentary on the action at hand, more like a shot of schoolboy innocence placed in a situation of galaxy - crumbling significance.
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The nightclub shtik improves with Snyder's squiggly computer animation and Katz's deadpan running commentary.
Along with Kendrick's character Beca, an aspiring DJ with a spiky cool - girl attitude who joins the Barden Bellas reluctantly, viewers can hang their skepticism on Gail and John (Elizabeth Banks and veteran Christopher Guest film improviser John Michael Higgins), the aged - out adults who provide alternately unenthused and deadpan - idiotic color commentary for each starry competition in «making music with your mouth.»
The source of the film's one surefire sight gag, he also provides a deadpan running commentary as a reprogrammed imperial security droid who starts out loyal solely to Cassian but develops a grudging affection for Jyn, too.
While earlier Kaurismäki films like Shadows In Paradise and The Man Without A Past were deadpan, blue - collar subversions of melodramatic plot points and classic film genres, this is pure self - commentary, best appreciated by fans.
Coover nails Mark Twain's tone and voice (including the hilarious malapropisms) but, more than that, evokes the deadpan dark humor and social commentary that made Huck's Adventures infinitely superior to Tom's.