Sentences with phrase «gonzo film»

Shot in stand - alone chapters as it is being financed, screened, and released, Wrong Cops is gonzo film - making with a unique online strategy.

Whether using gonzo filming techniques that compromise investigation or training a new helper, Louis puts everything on the line to become L.A.'s most successful roving reporter.

Not exact matches

That sense of purpose and drive animates Stone in a way that his recent films have not, and even though it's far less gonzo and experimental as Stone's quintessential catalogue, the storytelling skill is still consistently engaging and the resulting 134 minutes inform as well as entertain.

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.

In the years since Chris Columbus «sleepy debut films, the series has had its ups (Alfonso Cuarón «s immaculate «Prisoner of Azkaban «-RRB- and its downs (Mike Newell «s gonzo Bollywood «Goblet of Fire «-RRB- before settling in with its designated auteur, David Yates, who has helmed the last four films including this, the final entry, «Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2.»

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.

But there are some spots that transcend the rote nature of the film: Zach Galifianakis» gonzo Alan walks with all the film's memorable moments, from his asking about beeper - friendliness to his speech on the roof, and his Rain Man infatuation to his treatment of the baby they find in a closet.

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.

The first film had some grindhouse charm, so let's hope Rodriguez goes even more gonzo on this one.

However, the movie is far more gonzo than those two films ever dreamed of being.

It's hard to believe that any film that starts so promisingly, with Ryan Phillippe full - on punching Sarah Silverman in the mouth, can go so far downhill, but despite its gonzo and engaging opening half hour, the film soon sinks under its own weight, hampered by thin characterization, ludicrous overplotting and a director way, way too much in love with the prose on the page to bother trying to make it sound like dialogue from a human mouth.

But while the Miike review that doesn't contain the word «gonzo» is a rarity, he is no scattershot shock auteur, rather his films, unpredictable as they may be, are always guided by a clever intelligence.

Key to the gonzo conception of Split is the way it reformulates some of its director's best - known work; Kevin is basically the plot of The Village — that is, a community of survivors in conflict over an unseen monster — mashed together with a second film that will go unnamed here in the interest of avoiding spoilers.

Number three may eventually give you a headache, and the film occasionally feels like a pileup of gonzo shorts stitched together, but it's engagingly loony while it (and the viewer) lasts.

Craig has also produced and / or executive produced a number of feature films including Southern Belles starring Anna Faris and Justin Chambers, Beware The Gonzo starring Ezra Miller, Zoe Kravitz and Amy Sedaris, and Puncture starring Chris Evans.

Her mastery of the film's two horny leads and her straight - faced discussion of sexual acts rarely mentioned outside of gonzo porn shows that she can be sexy and humorously gross at the same time.

The novelty of Baron Cohen's undercover gonzo shtick was still firmly in place with this film; it's been all downhill from there.

The film is a cross of freeform sketch comedy, gonzo documentary, and irony - soaked Warholian melodrama.

Japanese animation studio Gonzo are making a Bayonetta animated feature film which is coming to Japanese theaters on November 23rd this year.

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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.»

Gonzo journalist and self - proclaimed wild man Thompson wouldn't fault the film's desultory, rudderless narrative or woozy pacing.

Working with director David Dobkin, Gough and Millar (who previously created «Smallville» and wrote Dobkin's film «Shanghai Knights») cross-pollinate soap - opera melodrama with gonzo hand - to - hand combat scenes.

That said, some of their most recent films I haven't entirely clicked with: «Burn After Reading» was fun, but feels minor in retrospect, while «True Grit» was uncharacteristically straightforward and old - fashioned in the context of some of their more gonzo affairs.

In this way writer - director Bruce Robinson uses the film as a means to dramatize Thompson's gonzo origins as he becomes a part of the stories he reports on.

This final trailer before the film bowed brought as many of the eye - popping thrills as any prior (except maybe the awesome international trailer which played up the gonzo qualities even further).

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.

Scrooge has been portrayed by everyone from actors Alastair Sims to George C. Scott to Michael Caine, and the tale has gotten twists such as being acted out by Jim Henson's Muppets (in their version, Charles Dickens himself was portrayed by blue creature Gonzo) and being updated to the then - present day, as in the 1988 Bill Murray film «Scrooged.»

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.

Gibson's character doesn't even play a very big part in the first film, and though he's given a more traditional leading role in the gonzo, post-apocalyptic sequels, he seldom gets the chance to showcase the kind of movie star charisma that defined his future work.

Gonzo casting like Tyler Perry as the scientist that eventually becomes a bug man may point to this film being a bit more interesting than its precursor, and hey, Megan Fox is always fun to watch.

Of all the stories I've written over the years, I've gotten the most spirited reader response from two of my more experimental travel tales — Storming «The Beach», which was a gonzo - philosophical look at a Leonardo DiCaprio movie that was being filmed in Thailand, and The Art of Writing a Story About Walking Across Andorra, a second - person - voice meta - satire about generic travel writing.

Japanese animation studio Gonzo are making a Bayonetta animated feature film which is coming to Japanese theaters on November 23rd this year.

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The Muppets: Movie Adventures features Kermit, Gonzo, Animal, Fozzie, and Miss Piggy as famous Hollywood actors always ready to film the most dangerous and exciting movie scenes.

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From reviews of Pablo Picasso and Jasper Johns to a gonzo Peter Saul interview, to an appreciation of Kara Walker's films and reflections on his own practice, Dunham writes about what is made and why it matters with incisiveness, wit and candor.