Sentences with phrase «for gonzo»

Invoking Hunter S. Thompson is a risky proposition for young writers, who can be gulled into thinking that chemical intake and sketchy reporting are substitutes for the gonzo great's keen insight and lacerating wit.

James Franco had a much less likely road to a nomination for his gonzo role in The Disaster Artist, but a Golden Globe win seemed to seal it... until the Los Angeles Times published a story in which several of his former acting students accused him of sexual harassment.

Used Cars was definitely the beginning of the end for the gonzo comedy style.

There are some gruesomely well - orchestrated scenes of body horror (one particular dissection is nightmarishly staged) and Garland's knack for gonzo imagery ensures that many scenes in the film will make a lasting impression.

Not exact matches

In January 2016, the writer went gonzo, writing a story for GQ.com chronicling 10 straight days during which the only thing he consumed was Halo Top.

In this week's roundup: A push for a new domestic terrorism law, Gonzo journalism on Nazis in Maine and a black activist saves a white supremacist.

Helps for those days where your chicken gonzo after a heavy sesh (usually legs, if you do em....

I f Sanchez was way better than Gonzo he would have cost more than the 36 mill Arsenal paid for him.

Last year Gonzo was on the B team for the blue white game, and people thought that meant something.

Gonzo Higuain, a talented striker who is not even universally seen as a top talent, is on the verge of moving to Juventus for # 79m.

Which is one reason why I'll never be totally on board with conservatism or libertarianism or with the type of liberalism that's gonzo for globalism.

Among his many accolades, the British artist co-invented gonzo journalism — where the storyteller becomes the story — as an illustrator for the various works of lifelong friend Hunter S. Thompson, including Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Critics Consensus: The delightfully gonzo tale of a lovestruck teen and his zombified mother, Dead Alive is extremely gory and exceedingly good fun, thanks to Peter Jackson's affection for the tastelessly sublime.

Overall, it's easy to appreciate the screwy, lurid atmosphere, but even as Tarantino's enthusiasm is characteristically infectious, it eventually grows tiresome.Basically, the experience boils down to this: Accept «Django Unchained» on its own gonzo terms and it's a marvelously enjoyable piece of subversive entertainment — for a little while.

«For an episode that really screws up some innocent lives, it has a delightfully gonzo - heist vibe, which could have felt dismissive but actually adds a queasy note that elevates the whole thing... And, most importantly, we get a lot of Wendy.

In pushing the film into gonzo - style comedy instead of melodrama or pure docudrama, Gillespie successfully navigates a very tricky line — this is, after all, a story filled with domestic abuse and violence, something that shouldn't be played for laughs but is also not the focus of the story.

Half the pleasure of giant - monster movies is allowing our suspension of disbelief to buckle like a bridge in Godzilla's path, and true to form, the film saves a few gonzo twists (including one especially outlandish bonus mutation) for the grand finale — an extended set - piece in which the three creatures converge on Chicago, which has typically gotten off easy where natural disasters are concerned.

For all of the gonzo flourishes, Waititi is a fairly conventional plotter and stager of action scenes, and so eventually we must move on to a denouement we don't quite care about, as well as a potentially weighty theme — Hela might represent the ugly origins that all prosperous societies bury — that stays too far out of focus.

For though the third entry into the unlikely sci - fi anthology franchise is by far the weakest of the bunch so far — fairly unsurprising considering its well - documented post-production troubles — it still boasts just enough gonzo weirdness to mostly pass muster.

When: October 11th Why: The first «Machete» wasn't nearly as entertaining as its gonzo premise suggested, but with Robert Rodriguez taking over full directing duties for the sequel, there's a part of me that really wants «Machete Kills» to fulfill that potential, especially with a rumored third installment («Machete Kills Again... In Space!»)

In The Muppet Movie (1979) one frog, on a trip to Hollywood, meets a new family of friends for life, including a bear, a pig, and whatever Gonzo is.

But the movie is probably too gonzo for most academy voters» tastes.

* Tackling broadly, if clumsily, the hypocrisy of religions that place the church before God, Priest has going for it the same simplicity of its gonzo belief as the similarly interesting The Book of Eli.

This gonzo visionary respects his aptitude for being «slightly maniacal,» altering our world.

One fateful evening, some kind of humanoid aquatic creature arrives for study, hauled in by a nefarious government agent played with controlled gonzo by Michael Shannon.

They include Avalanche Studios» Mad Max, Nadeo's TrackMania Turbo, and Gonzo Games» Q - Bert Rebooted for PS4.

The Dec. 1 episode will welcome Joseph Gordon - Levitt and Dave Grohl for the episode «Going, Going, Gonzo,» which will ostensibly be the first time the new Muppets revival will see the Great Gonzo, Gonzo's high - flying, daredevil alter ego.

In Animal Crossing, Gonzo has a boxing ring for a house.

For all his later gonzo persona, Thompson at 24 was whip smart and super disciplined about understanding the forces shaping Latin America during the Cold War.

We've got singing vegetables, charming families of mice begging for more cheese, the annual Penguin Christmas skating party and the fantastic moment when Gonzo accidentally lights Rizzo instead of his lamp which leads to «Light the lamp, not the rat, light the lamp, not the rat!!»

On Twitter, there were even some calls for a best - actor campaign for Franco's gonzo performance in the undated Warner Bros. movie, including from the L.A. Times's Mark Olsen and from Variety's Ramin Setoodeh.

It's a macabre and inspired conceit, and one mined for biting social satire by writer / director Brian Taylor on his first solo outing since his gonzo collaborations with Mark Neveldine (the Crank films, Gamer), which similarly provoked and parodied cultural bugaboos.»

It's a gonzo romp, though your response may depend on your tolerance for its star.

Marginally less exploitive than Michael Winner's gonzo freakshow, The Sentinel, but not afraid of graphic imagery, and disturbing juxtapositions; for instance a woman hangs herself at a children's birthday party in one scene.

A comparison of the rootin» - tootin» dream sequence in «Toy Story 3» to any three minutes of this gonzo exercise in computer animation suggests that we're no longer in Monument Valley or, for that matter, Pixar - land.

A joyfully perverse exercise in world - building for a franchise that will only live on in fan fiction, the Wachowskis» space opera was a vibrant throwback to gonzo epics like The Fifth Element, Brazil, and the siblings» own The Matrix.

That's why Verhoeven's gonzo, cyberpunky original was such a blast: nearly X-rated for violence, that hard - R actioner rammed its you - know - you - want - it satire right in your face, and was deliriously entertaining for it.

The Blu - ray serves up a few more, including one for what looks like a gonzo Eli Roth pic, Knock Knock, shot with Reeves starring just before the original John Wick revitalized his career.

Kermit, Gonzo, Rowlf, Scooter, Fozzie, Miss Piggy, Animal, and new - boy Walter, stop the van for a bathroom break at a country fair that turns out to be a gourmet food fest.

(For Gen X-ers, 1999 was a very bad year: George Lucas told you that The Force was really tiny space critters living in your bloodstream, and Team Muppet expected you to believe that Gonzo was an extraterrestrial.)

If Ghostbox Cowboy doesn't sound gonzo enough, just wait for the wild ending, which takes place in a city of empty condominiums in the Mongolian desert, and involves a stubborn camel and one very bad facelift.

It won't matter at all that Russell's gonzo touches largely serve as artifice, or that the film, for all its screenplay diversity, is more than a little racist.

«To stage The Greatest Muppet Telethon Ever and raise the $ 10 million needed to save the theater, Walter, Mary and Gary help Kermit reunite the Muppets, who have all gone their separate ways: Fozzie now performs with a Reno casino house band called the Moopets, Miss Piggy is a plus - size fashion editor at Vogue Paris, Animal is in a Santa Barbara clinic for anger management, and Gonzo is a high - powered plumbing magnate.»

Two of the best films of the last year, S. Craig Zahler's Bone Tomahawk and John Maclean's Slow West, took the period and setting but twisted them to their own means, Zahler going for a buddy road trip / gonzo gore feast and Maclean dressing Ben Mendlesohn in the best coat anyone will ever wear and opting for a surreality that still lingers in the mind.

To stage The Greatest Muppet Telethon Ever and raise the $ 10 million needed to save the theater, Walter, Mary and Gary help Kermit reunite the Muppets, who have all gone their separate ways: Fozzie now performs with a Reno casino tribute band called the Moopets, Miss Piggy is a plus - size fashion editor at Vogue Paris, Animal is in a Santa Barbara clinic for anger management, and Gonzo is a high - powered plumbing magnate.

For connoisseurs of gonzo vehicular action and mind - blowing practical effects, that was Mad Max: Fury Road.

The very good: Both cars are howl - at - the - blood - red - moon, out - for - trouble, gonzo fun.

The Desert Runner is equipped with skidplates for the bottom of the engine and the fuel tank, gonzo - looking fender flares, a fullsize spare tire, and four - channel ABS.

«Child caps his steadily building narrative with a gonzo action scene that seems a little heavy for Indiana.»

September 2009: Breathing Water by Timothy Hallinan Gonzo expat travel writer Poke Rafferty has a penchant for finding trouble — this time with a ruthless mob boss who is the subject of Rafferty's forthcoming book.