Sentences with phrase «from oddball»

The game was stacked with modes from Oddball to King of the Hill and fun modes came after with the customization options.

WGTC writes: We take a look back at 9 very underrated video games, from oddball crime thrillers to big budget offerings that didn't get a fare shake.

I was impressed recently to see Nate from Oddball Stocks detail some disasters.

The whole thing is mainly situational: we get to watch the heroine, Ruth Kimke (Melanie Lynskey) as she reacts to having her house broken into and follow along as she decides to locate and punish the people who did it with help from an oddball neighbor (Elijah Wood's Tony), who's enamored with morning stars and nunchucks.

It follows the wayward adventures of a dachshund who passes from oddball owner to oddball owner — including the world's worst mom, a beleaguered screenwriter, and the grownup incarnation of Welcome to the Dollhouse's Dawn Wiener — whose radically dysfunctional lives are all impacted by the pooch.

It follows the wayward adventures of a dachshund who passes from oddball owner to oddball owner — including a terrible mom, a beleaguered screenwriter and the grownup incarnation of Welcome to the Dollhouse's Dawn Wiener — whose dysfunctional lives are affected by the pooch.

Even during such weak spots, however, it's impossible not to derive some enjoyment from the oddball antics of the film's exceedingly eclectic supporting cast, which includes M.C. Gainey, Jason Flemyng, and Keith Carradine (the latter, playing a fu manchu - sporting henchman, is especially amusing here).

Wiener - Dog follows the wayward adventures of a dachshund who passes from oddball owner to oddball owner — including the world's worst mom, a beleaguered screenwriter, and the grown - up Dawn Wiener of Welcome to the Dollhouse — whose radically dysfunctional lives are all impacted by the pooch.

It's pretty much what you're expecting from the oddball team.

The Bronze then changes from an oddball black comedy full of crass humour and filthy language into a sort - of redemption story (with crass humour and filthy language), although neither choice ever really works.

Whitman is still most celebrated for her decade at eBay, which she grew from oddball dotcom startup to e-commerce powerhouse.

Our Opinion: Now that tall, 4WD wagons — in the form of «crossover utility vehicles» — have gone from oddballs to some of the best - selling vehicles in America, Subaru — who'd been making the things all along — has entered a period of unanticipated good fortune.

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Here's the real deal from hiring experts on what oddball questions really mean — before they trip you up.

Every remaining episode of ER was filmed with the oddball camera from Red Digital Cinema.

We often hear about Google's oddball «Moonshot» projects — from using balloons to bring internet to isolated areas to developing self - driving cars — but according to at least one of the company's former execs, Google's obsession with shooting for the stars actually reaches into even the most mundane aspects of its everyday business.

The show follows the story of «an oddball athlete who drives family, friends and strangers crazy after he's unexpectedly cut from his pro football team.»

Oh Mr Potato Head... you need some chapstick from kissen so much left wing oddball butt.

Whether you buy a collection of coordinating colors from an indie dyer, get a bunch of samples through a knitting subscription box or just have lots of oddballs left over from your own projects, these little bits of yarn are lovely to look at.

Orbiting within the Kuiper Belt, a vast cloud of icy debris left over from the solar system's formation, the oddball is estimated to be 600 kilometers long but just 360 kilometers wide, making it one of the largest elongated bodies ever detected.

Pint - size planetoid: The smallest extrasolar object yet found, only one - fifth the mass of Pluto, has been spied in an oddball solar system 1,500 light - years from Earth.

That means the oddball entity could be a molecular relic from the RNA world, which predated the evolution of DNA, lending credence to the idea that life depended first on RNA.

We know a lot about their oddball skeletons from the neck down, but this is the first time we've been able to digitally dissect an entire skull.»

It's a unique premise that's employed to affable (if entirely forgettable) effect by director Howard, as the filmmaker, working from a script by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, does an effective job of initially establishing the movie's seedy, New York City - landscape and assortment of oddball characters.

When he is separated from his family en route, becomes completely lost, finds he hasnt packed what he really needs, AND is threatened by an oddball southern vulture, Eddie sees the error of his ways and learns the value of being prepared.

Then they realize they like writing songs about their own fights, so they dig out an old electric guitar and bass from their garage and begin jamming out with oddball neighbor Dave (Fred Armisen), whom they recruit to be their drummer.

From there, Eyes Wide Shut progresses into a strangely episodic midsection revolving around William's nighttime exploits in New York City - with Kubrick, working from a script cowritten with Frederic Raphael, offering up a number of seemingly pointless, palpably comedic interludes (eg William's encounters with an oddball costume - shop ownFrom there, Eyes Wide Shut progresses into a strangely episodic midsection revolving around William's nighttime exploits in New York City - with Kubrick, working from a script cowritten with Frederic Raphael, offering up a number of seemingly pointless, palpably comedic interludes (eg William's encounters with an oddball costume - shop ownfrom a script cowritten with Frederic Raphael, offering up a number of seemingly pointless, palpably comedic interludes (eg William's encounters with an oddball costume - shop owner).

Based on a non-fiction book by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell, The Disaster Artist details the unusual friendship that forms between a struggling actor (Dave Franco's Greg) and a seriously oddball figure (James Franco's Tommy)- with the movie detailing the pair's efforts at putting together a full - length feature from scratch.

Just an oddball mama's boy from the back bayous of Louisiana, Bobby Boucher (Sandler) never wanted anything more than to quench the thirst of the dehydrated athletes who treat him like dirt!

Fourteen years later, he could be seen as oddball science teacher Hector Vargas in the weekly sitcom Fast Times, repeating his role from the 1982 theatrical feature Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

Or the oddball moment when Po, on one side of a busy square, yells a threat at Shen, far away from him — a threat that would be fiendishly effective if Shen weren't so far away that he has to keep asking Po to repeat it.

Cooper is the cocky and capable Vince Vaughn stand - in, Helms refines his Office character, keeping suppressed anger and frustration from erupting, while scene - stealer Galifianakis is scarily convincing as a well - meaning oddball on his own plane of existence.

Waltz, speaking in his German - from - Neptune accent, and in cadences so literate they're a little loopy, plays Schultz as a charismatic benevolent oddball, and he and Foxx, with that smoky and knowing killer gaze, make an irresistible buddy team.

On the way, he finds himself in one oddball encounter after another, from posing as an escaped convict's alibi girlfriend to dancing his way out of a biker brawl in a bar to riding in a big - rig with cackling Large

All its disparate parts don't quite come together, but it's exactly the kind of oddball vision that might never get a major push from a brand name if not for the Duplasses.

But the summer of 2003 saw «Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl» become a monster hit, launching one of the biggest modern - day franchises, stretching to four movies to date, and turning Depp from beloved oddball to global megastar.

This is far from the only oddball gameplay mechanic.

From the delightfully oddball creature designs to the plethora of visual gags, the Darwinian creativity on display is absorbing.

It's barely related to the Star Fox series and has mostly been ignored in the year of hype leading to the release of its big brother Star Fox Zero, but the new oddball Star Fox Guard tower defense game from Nintendo and Platinum is well worth your attention.

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.

Their secret causes them to be on the run from the Man in the Yellow Suit (Kingsley, who adds yet another notch to recent belt of oddball characterizations).

She shares this inside information with the other guests at the table, a decidedly oddball collection: There's the Kepps (Robinson and Kudrow), a boring couple who run a diner together; Walter (Merchant), a weirdo who may or may not have just come straight from prison; Renzo (Revolori), a horny teen who can't help but take terrible advice from his mother; and Jo (Squibb), a retired pot - smoking nanny.

Starring Joaquin Phoenix and distributed by Amazon Studios, the drama follows the life of a troubled alcoholic who journeys from rock - bottom to an oddball AA group; it also stars Jonah Hill, Rooney Mara, and Jack Black.

White House Down is having as much fun as it wants the audience to have, and everything is kept charmingly light; one of the final scenes in the film might as well have come from the end of a Scooby - Doo episode, and it really works in an oddball way.

Everyone from Halle Berry to your oddball, smelly cousin has been dumped, which makes Forgetting Sarah Marshall so easy to

The core of the movie is about a sensitive boy and a grumpy girl who plan to meet for a private adventure; he escapes from his scout camp, she temporarily runs away from home, and while this sweet, odd, and adorable romance takes center stage, Anderson (as usual) populates the periphery with all sorts of colorful oddballs.

The comedy from the In Bruges writer and director reunites him with actor Colin Farrell as a struggling screenwriter who inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his two oddball friends (Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell) kidnap a gangster's (Woody Harrelson) beloved Shih Tzu.

No disrespect to those child actors who grew up on screen, this is a more mature entertainment in which Fogler and Sudol (pictured below) lay in a good supply of laughs from the playbook of oddball romantic comedy.

Prediction: I expect this endearingly clumsy oddball guardian of endangered magical creatures might just become a spokes symbol for animal rescue groups, even if he keeps on having to recapture them after they escape from his suitcase.

«Kings,» which features a trio of kids building their own four - wall sanctuary in the woods away from civilization, feels like a spiritual relative to children's films of the»80s, which weren't beholden to demographics and catchphrases and featured oddballs and outsiders with filthy vocabularies.

Grant is also very good as Bayfield, a man comfortable with his keptness, and who has genuine affection for his oddball wife, even though his entire life revolves around protecting her from harsh reality.