Sentences with phrase «funhouse mirror»

The second, entirely unrelated, what is the difference between a great movie and a terrible movie, and by extension this — are «bad movies we love» ever truly terrible or are they actually funhouse mirrors of greatness, very nearly the same but for the random comic distortions?

Dale Lewis's «Fat, Sugar, Salt» — his second solo show at Edel Assanti — depicts life in Brexit Britain as a distorted funhouse mirror: each new angle more grotesque and cruelly familiar than the last.

The narrative attempts to tell a bizarre funhouse mirror version of a rags to riches story of a crazy director with no talent who becomes a celebrity in spite of himself by making a terrible movie badly, but Franco and his cadre of famous friends (his brother Dave, Alison Brie, Zac Efrton, Seth Rogen, and so on and so on) seem far too tickled making shot for shot remakes of scenes from The Room to latch onto anything beyond an extended SNL skit.

Actually, that's not quite right: Imagine instead a Heathers that gleefully goes all the way past the point of nihilism, and ends up in a warped funhouse mirror reflection of society that blends camp and satire in equal measure (with a heaping dose of gore liberally applied throughout).

«Distortive effects of short distance photographs on nasal appearance: The selfie effect: Researchers develop new mathematical model to explain how smartphones act as «portable funhouse mirrors».»

Or perhaps it's the App Store's intimidating number of apps — 300,000 and counting — that surround customers with funhouse mirrors and no clue about where to even start.

The real events of Amin's spectacular rise and fall in Uganda are distorted by the narrative of this movie in much the same way the events of one's life are distorted in one's dreams — or, more comically (and the best elements of this film are comic), the way a body is distorted by funhouse mirrors.

Its governing premise is a lurid funhouse mirror of the gospels: Everything we think we know about Mary through Scripture is wrong, which means that everything that we think we know and that we believe about Christ is also wrong.

The cluster is so massive that it magnifies the light from faraway galaxies behind it due to a phenomenon called gravitational lensing, where the curvature of space acts like a giant funhouse mirror to stretch and brighten distant objects.

It is important that you select «Preserve cover aspect ratio» every time unless you particularly want your cover to suffer an unflattering funhouse mirror effect every time someone opens your book.

A striking Australian debut, a dazzling funhouse mirror of a thriller and an exploration into existentialism are this month's best audio books.

Right from the opening, Panoramical invites you to dive into these post-techno funhouse mirrors.

The exhibition serves as a kind of funhouse mirror reincarnation of those early works, retaining parts of their power and significance but also providing them with a new, highly contemporary existence.

The BC case sounds like a mirror image (funhouse mirror image?)

These cars allow you to drive your dream car, as long as you don't mind funhouse mirror proportions and power levels unlikely to exceed ten horses.

9 March 2018 Dale Lewis's «Fat, Sugar, Salt» — his second solo show at Edel Assanti — depicts life in Brexit Britain as a distorted funhouse mirror: each new angle more grotesque and cruelly familiar than the last.

New Jersey Medical School researchers explain how smartphones act as «portable funhouse mirrors.»

Though The Simpsons began as a funhouse mirror held up to everyday America — the doofus dad and mischievous son, the loving mom and brainy daughter, the nerdy neighbour — over the years the show has gone from reflecting culture to influencing it.

«For the leader, you have to take away the funhouse mirror and you have to realize that talent is scarce,» Buffett said, «and you should take it wherever you can get it.»

Today (or a couple of years ago) the «person of the year» is (was) «you» yourself shown in a trashy make - shift mirror — depending on how long the magazine sat under the sun or under a coffee cup, one could even call it a funhouse mirror.

The writings of a false religion are like a funhouse mirror (some more than others), which is as it ought to be — a distortion.

Neanderthals sometimes seem like our defining Other, recognizably human yet not: Homo sapiens in a funhouse mirror that pushes the face forward yet obliterates the chin; inflates the brow ridge yet compresses the skull; and bulks out the chest yet truncates the lower limbs.

In some cases of gravitational lensing, galaxies look wacky, as if seen in a funhouse mirror, or they appear multiple times.

But each portrayal is only one view; indeed, with five of nine symptoms required for diagnosis, there are dozens of ways to have BPD (plus, put a Hollywood filter on any psychological disorder and you'll almost always end up with the funhouse mirror version).

Some are distorted like a funhouse mirror through a «space warp» phenomenon first predicted by Einstein a century ago.

And it's not just ignoramuses whose news is thus polluted: the recent furore over Facebook's curation of its trending topics suggests that anyone who leans on social media for their news may be seeing a funhouse mirror of the truth.

«The gravity from all that mass has distorted the image that we see of the background galaxy,» like a telescope or a «funhouse mirror,» Rigby tells Newsweek, explaining that it's an effect that Albert Einstein predicted and that has been proven over and over again since.

Emboldened by how beautiful it looks, «The Post» isn't afraid to be playful with the past, even if that makes it less of a time capsule than a funhouse mirror.

By focusing on the tumultuous friendship between Violette LeDuc and Simone de Beauvoir, Martin Provost creates not so much a dichotomy of femininity as a funhouse mirror of it.

«Homeland is holding up a funhouse mirror to real - world scandals about fake news, Russian collusion, and information warfare, but perhaps the most remarkable thing about this season is how deftly it allows several political viewpoints to have a place in its narrative.»

Haynes finds, within the sensationalist and the melodramatic, a culture's vision of itself, distorted by a funhouse mirror but nevertheless evocative of the unvarnished truth.

Watching Neighbors felt like standing in front of a funhouse mirror: Suddenly, you could see how everything else was warped.

It's a film about video games made by a director who was a huge formative influence on the medium, observing his own reflection in a funhouse mirror.

Anderson delights in creating new worlds from old material, reshaping the familiar or the half - forgotten in the funhouse mirrors of his imagination.

The deceptive nature of proficiency as a measure of student progress — and how to fix the funhouse mirror

The whirring and clicking ofhomemade machines fills this middleschool classroom turned sciencemuseum, stacked high with magnetsculptures, spinning plates, and funhouse mirrors.

Policy is like a funhouse mirror: This stuff matters because the advocates have a real problem — things they regard as sensible and unexceptional are much more disconcerting to many conservatives.

Policy is often like a funhouse mirror.

Looking at these percentages is like «viewing progress through a funhouse mirror,» Ho cautions.

Senior Road Test Editor Joe Bruzek describes it as a «Corolla viewed through a funhouse mirror.»

Atwood, who clearly knows her Shakespeare, holds The Tempest up to a funhouse mirror and shows the reader the many ways the modern plot she's concocted reflects the original work.

As contemporary art stares into a funhouse mirror, the world needs Michaël Borremans more than ever.

For three consecutive years, The Bruce High Quality Foundation — an anonymous collective comprised of several Cooper Union alumni — have been holding up a funhouse mirror to the Whitney Biennial in the form of a more frequent Brucennial exhibition.

reads a random direct message that Soda has received, now printed on a funhouse mirror in her «I'm Just Happy to Be Here» show at 315 Gallery in Brooklyn.

Video is the most fitting genre for this sort of viewing — a funhouse mirror, as it were.

She gamely dons a mask, holds a knife, paints, peers through a magnifying glass, reclines in bed, and is reflected in a funhouse mirror that pulls her like putty, stretching beyond repair her already gnomic features.

And in each piece, the artists themselves appear semaphorically gestulating or primally screaming, their figures distorted as if in a funhouse mirror.

Titled «Portraits,» the name evokes both the image of a distorted funhouse mirror and the idea of multiple portraits acting as shields to guard the subject's true likeness.