Sentences with phrase «fashioned screwball»

There's no attempt at drama here, just good, old - fashioned screwball comedy abounding with double - entendres and sight gags and anchored by two charmingly presentational and presentationally charming lead performances.

JUMP TOMORROW (Grade: B): This story of a shy, buttoned - down, Nigerian - born man who falls for an impulsive young Spanish woman is an old - fashioned screwball road - trip romance with a modern flair and a funky lounge score.

Not exact matches

At a pivotal moment in Wes Anderson's screwball fable, two children rendezvous on an island beach, and the boy gives the girl a pair of earrings fashioned from fishing lures.

This capriciously offbeat sophomore offering from director Rian Johnson starts off in the tradition of good old - fashioned Hollywood screwball comedies.

Laurie Boeder is a lifelong movie fan and professional writer who especially loves the fabulous Hollywood films of the»40s,»50s and»60s, and has a soft spot for screwball comedies, cheesy old sci - fi, and old - fashioned patriotic potboilers.

Airy and lush (the film's Monaco backdrop, the location for Juliette's impending wedding, is gorgeously captured by master cinematographer Thierry Arbogast), Heartbreaker harks back to old - fashioned Preston Sturges — style escapism, with equal parts sophistication, screwball, and heart, that is all but extinct.

Parke's debut novel melds screwball comedy, hipster - style irony and an old - fashioned unreliable narrator into a quirky whodunit that challenges our perceptions about how we think and interact with the world around us.