Sentences with phrase «deadpanned about»

«They certainly weren't desperate for pastrami,» Felder deadpanned about the 1412 Ave. J break - in in Midwood.

And they laughed along as Zemsky deadpanned about almost missing the Dec. 8 ceremony because, waking up in his Buffalo home, he called an Uber.

Not exact matches

Deadpan comedian Nate Bargatze made another appearance on The Tonight Show this week, this time telling a story about a time he saw a dead horse on his way up to Mt. Rainier in Seattle.

With deadpan humour, she mocked the tussle going on in the Conservatives to succeed Cameron by enquiring about Osborne's ambitions and also singling out Theresa May.

Grammy - nomiated comedian Steven Wright talks about his upcoming stand - up act at Turning Stone Casino, and how he maintains that perfect deadpan delivery.

Asked about his goals and dreams for The Monti, Polish deadpans, «world domination,» adding, «I do want to be recognized nationally... as an organization that does something that is important, interesting, entertaining, and provocative.»

Cave is in costume throughout, wardrobed in louche suit, Vegas shades and post-Birthday Party hair, delivering hard - boiled, pre-scripted voiceovers and «off the cuff» observations about the artistic process in the same well - rehearsed deadpan drawl.

Two performances in Game Night stood out to me, which is an accomplishment, since everyone in the film gave memorable and entertaining performances from Magnussen's look of child - like wonder when he was right about something everyone else doubted to Horgan's quick wit and ability to quickly and naturally go from moments of honest laughter to moments of unforgettable deadpan.

Several scenes in Lincoln depict the ignorance of some ordinary citizens about the effect of the Thirteenth Amendment, and Lincoln deadpans that his government better move forward quickly before the pro-slavery constituents wise up.

This is an arrestingly sophisticated and sardonic sitcom, with deliciously deadpan narration and stylish flashbacks, about mostly self - absorbed characters at odds with one another and the world at large.

Franklin J. Shaffner's deadpan adaptation of Ira Levin's silly story about Hitler clones.

A fable - like story about a young African girl banished from her village for alleged witchcraft, it blends deadpan humor with light surrealism, vivid visuals and left - field musical choices.

His longing pre-fight ode to peanut butter - chocolate ice cream — «You can get it at Wal - Mart,» he deadpans — is, in its way, as revealing about the suffering athlete as anything in Black Swan, not to snark too much on Darren Aronofsky, whose recent films till similar ground.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

While this quirky mockumentary about the making of a stage musical didn't strike it big at the box office (earning less than $ 3 million worldwide), it soon became a cult classic for its deadpan humor and oddly lovable characters.

What The Weather Man needed was a change in its weather — a certain kind of humor, to be precise, something like the deadpan but human satire of Alexander Payne's About Schmidt.

If you watch only one trauma - centric sitcom about a deadpan stand - up coping with culture clashes and the impermanence of life this year, make it this one.

Through Lanthimos and Filippou's surreal imagination, the hotel manager (Olivia Colman), reading the riot act in her warning about animal transformation, notes (in the movie's most deadpan statement) that «a wolf and a penguin can not live together, because that would be absurd.»

On the audio end of the spectrum, the Japanese DD 5.1 track * is loud, but the picture is less about pyrotechnics than carefully timed deadpan reaction shots.

The trailer still seems to be designed for an audience with tastes slightly - left - of - centre: the humour is dry and deadpan, Charlize Theron says socially unacceptable things about hating children, and the trailer song is still of the indie - rock persuasion.

But there's also plenty that moves the spirit in that uniquely Andersonian way, from the endearing amateurishness of young newcomers Hayward and Gilman (their natural fumbling is perfect for a story about naive first love) to the stellar support lent by Murray, McDormand, Norton and Willis, who each convey a lifetime of concealed hurts with every gesture and deadpan - absurd line reading.

I was more enthusiastic about the supporting cast, especially fast - talking twins Keith and Kenny Lucas and deadpan Jillian Bell, as Stevens» hostile roommate.

Director Terry Zwigoff shares his own musical taste in this article about how he went about selecting songs to underscore the deadpan tone of his cult comedy Ghost World.

As the deadpan title announces, Western is a film about the tension between colonizers and natives.

«We lost 19 of our best guys that day,» a deadpan Kumail Nanjiani quips in The Big Sick, resulting in the year's most audacious joke (it's about 9/11) which sealed the Silicon Valley star's status as the most exciting comedy actor on the scene.

In the meantime, when asked about his fellow Best Comedy Album nominees receiving puppies from host James Corden as consolation prizes, Chappelle deadpanned, «I would love to get one of those puppies.»

Nielsen, with his expert deadpan and sense of comic timing, creates the illusion of humor — for about 15 minutes.

So it goes in The Young Karl Marx, an improbably lush and deadpan - funny epic about a pair of two - fisted materialists and the bodacious babes who loved them, as they brawled and rollicked their way toward writing The Communist Manifesto.

Wes Anderson «s «Moonrise Kingdom» seems like an odd choice to open the 65th Cannes Film Festival, with its deadpan Americanism, retro - set timeline and movie - star cast; at the same time, Anderson is clearly influenced by the New Wave, both cinematically and personally, he's a distinctive authorial voice as a director (which is the essence of auteur theory) and while his films are defined by near - silent moments of comedy and human frailty, there's also something mournful and wounded about them.

When the topic returns to Marvel's slate and specifics about, say, whether there's a Guardians of the Galaxy Easter egg in the new Thor trailer, he deadpans, «I can neither confirm nor deny.»

Asked about that at a press conference, she deadpanned, «I might take my clothes off right here.

Indie - film legend and Adam Driver turn deadpan comedy about a New Jersey bus - driving poet into a quiet celebration of everyday people

From the looming wide - angle shots that capture the action to the deadpan, slightly askew dialogue (a brilliantly droll exchange about wristwatches is one of the film's running concerns), there's an insinuating anxiety, a vague sense of threat underpinning The Killing of a Sacred Deer.

Jokes about whether or not you can crack it will inevitably follow «The Lobster» into cinemas — where audiences will have to decide whether the film's deadpan weirdness and high - concept ruminations on love and life are for them or not.

Capitalizing on his deadpan comedic sensibilities, he then won the title role in Dill Scallion (1999), the cult classic «mockumentary» about the rise and fall of a slightly touched country music singer.

The animation is lively and unusual, and the script is full of grace notes and genuinely funny moments, but what really makes the movie work is the characters, who are voiced with such intelligence, compassion, and deadpan humor that I found myself truly caring about them and whether or not they would survive their adventures.

«Throughout, Donoghue offers deadpan asides about the trappings of the recent boom times in Ireland.»

As you set out to challenge Gilgamesh the Blademaster - Cor deadpans later that, yes, his name just means he's the master of all blades - it becomes clear that all Gladio is doing is reinforcing what we already know about him.

Based on Ken Follett's 1200 - page book about 12th century English cathedral - building, Daedalic has taken on a hell of a task by taking a topic that's drier than a deadpan comic dying of thirst in a desert and attempting to turn it into something entertaining.

The first thing someone notices about Aldridge's work is the electric color palette of the hyper - stylized world, but upon closer inspection, a darkness reveals itself from the beautiful deadpan model-esque character, drawing you in to feel some empathy or compassion for her both bleak and beautiful situation.

Anthea Hamilton — Turner Prize - nominee Anthea Hamilton talks to Helen Sumpter about sampling, collaborating, choreographing and deadpanning her way through three quintessentially British shows.

It was a deadpan joke about waving goodbye to Minimalism.

His visual language is drawn from a deadpan observation of the world around him... McGlynn's work is... about the immediacy of simply looking at stuff...»

The surprising thing to me about Ryman's recent work is that, although its deadpan touch proceeds almost uninterrupted, it flirts with what might be called organic form.

There were many times when dad would lose himself talking about how they met, or how awkward he was during their first dates, or how once he bought a bouquet to woo her and she deadpanned white flowers are used for funerals in Korea.

«They don't want to be named, and I think that's all we can say about it,» he deadpans.