Sentences with phrase «good knockabout»

All this is good knockabout stuff.

There was plenty of good knockabout copy in entries like Tracey Emin's tousled bedsheets and Martin Creed's lights going on and off.

These get in the way of a good knockabout, after all.

Not exact matches

Skyfall is not without its weak spots — Bardem's master plan is ultimately a bit blunt and unartful, the script is not terribly good to women (wish they'd get rid of that old Bond trope for good), Whishaw and Craig regrettably don't kiss — but, all cards on the table, it's still a knockabout success.

If these scenes set themselves a lower bar than the unassumingly deft character work of the main story, with its lively attention to adolescent anxieties, «Superbad» at its best goes right through knockabout to land in deliciously obscene places — notably a staggering succession of doodles in which tumescent cocks take on various extraordinary guises.

Compared with the gloomy ruminations on ageing and aspiration that characterised the well - received Blue Jasmine, which won Cate Blanchett an Oscar, this is Allen going back to the knockabout farce and blithe May - December couplings that populate his lighter films.

Ingenious and wonderfully detailed, though better in its imaginative horror than its slightly too - broad comic knockabout.

Her paintings and sculptures may be knocked - about as well as knockabout, but there is a great deal of personal abjection in them.