Sentences with phrase «in gonzo»

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.

Tilda Swinton plays the artistic director, and Lutz Ebersdorf the grieving psychotherapist in this gonzo nightmare.

In his gonzo epic «Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,» Hunter S. Thompson referred to the Summer of Love in 1967 as, in retrospect, the point where the great wave of the counterculture «broke and finally rolled back.»

The actor will square off against James Franco, who plays the villainous drug baron, something that's sure to result in a gonzo, scene - stealing turn.

Get ready to capture that groovy seventies style in the GONZO.

Australian documentary maker Damon Gameau cracks open the refined sugars hidden in so - called «healthy» packaged food in a gonzo activist mission to map his own mental and physical disintegration

You can read all about the nuts and bolts of the project in the Gonzo Scientist story.

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 supremacisIn 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 supremacisin Maine and a black activist saves a white supremacist.

«There's this stigma if you sign in blue,» Kevin Fucile, a well - documented gonzo collector, says.

Russell Crowe named his son Tennyson (as in writer Alfred Tennyson), model Niki Taylor named her son Hunter (think gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson), and Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake named their son Silas (title character of George Eliot's novel Silas Marner).

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.

The Gonzo Scientist uses «culturomics» — a new field of study, launched in a recent Science paper, that quantitatively explores massive data sets of digitized culture — to create a Science Hall of Fame.

Our gonzo scientist immerses himself in the Italian way of life at the Genoa Festival of Science

Vice Magazine, a gonzo - journalism publication based in Brooklyn, put up a story yesterday morning proclaiming, «We Are With John McAfee Right Now, Suckers.»

They fly an airplane affectionately named Miss Piggy, or P3, (they also have planes named Kermit and Gonzo) at about 10,000 feet (3,000 meters) in a full - blown storm.

Teenage boys will not be freed from the bog they are immured in by new - fangled modifications and medications, but by old - fashioned reason and Gonzo, Porn and Sexting - teenage boys, teenage girls and expectations.

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.

However, these are minor quibbles in the grand scheme of things, as the script by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber paints the Tommy Wiseau story as a gonzo La La Land, where the primary theme is never giving up on your dreams.

It's a great movie - cliché moment, enjoyed and employed by everyone from Michael Keaton in The Paper to Gonzo in The Great Muppet Caper.

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.&raquIn 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.&raquin 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.

When a writing assignment lands journalist Raoul Duke (Depp) and sidekick DR. Gonzo (Del Toro) in Las Vegas, they decide to make it the ultimate business trip.

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.

Some jokes fall flat, a few scenarios seem uninspired, and Arnett's horse does seem strikingly similar to his hilarious man - child / magician Gob in Arrested Development, but this bizarre dreamscape where humans and anthropomorphic animals commingle and cohabitate is filled with promise, providing a fun, delightfully gonzo take on Hollyweird.

A mix of H.P. Lovecraft madness, David Cronenberg biological mutation and David Lynch small - town weirdness, it teasingly dangles explanations never delivered and escapes never sought, while diving into one of the most gonzo horrors to twist onto celluloid in years.

The godfather of modern gonzo filmmaking addresses American slavery and race relations the same way he has addressed other sensitive issues: by making a boisterously entertaining movie that couldn't be less interested in sensitivity.

Terry Gilliam's hallucinatory 1998 adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's classic of gonzo journalism stars Johnny Depp as Thompson's alter ego Raoul Duke and Benicio De Toro (thrillingly and terrifying unencumbered by any behavioral boundaries) as Dr. Gonzo in the drug - fueled carnival atmosphere of Las Vegas, circa gonzo journalism stars Johnny Depp as Thompson's alter ego Raoul Duke and Benicio De Toro (thrillingly and terrifying unencumbered by any behavioral boundaries) as Dr. Gonzo in the drug - fueled carnival atmosphere of Las Vegas, circa Gonzo in the drug - fueled carnival atmosphere of Las Vegas, circa 1971.

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!»)

Uprising, however, packs in more gonzo invention and giddy destruction than its progenitor and the director, Daredevil's Steven S. DeKnight, manages to twist the franchise in some surprising new directions.

This gonzo sci - fi outing, set in 2259, proves to be a messy amalgam — a motion picture with the body of a mainstream blockbuster but the spirit of a trendy cult flick.

It's a wonderfully bizarre movie set in a world that at first glance might be our own, yet quickly slides off the rails into gonzo territory.

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.

The Oscar - winning director of Taxi to the Darkside and Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room tells Jason Solomons about his new documentary, Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr Hunter S Thompson

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.

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.

Anyways, with the occasional clip from The Muppet Movie, a bit of footage from the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of The Muppets» Wizard of Oz, and plenty of in - character comments from Kermit's long - time co-stars including Fozzie Bear, Gonzo, Miss Piggy, Statler, and Waldorf, Kermit is profiled in a breezy, semi-entertaining and mostly forgettable manner.

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.

In Animal Crossing: New Leaf - Welcome Amiibo, Gonzo's house / RV now resembles a bank.

This latest adventure finds Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, The Great Gonzo, Animal and the gang, on tour in Europe, traveling through Berlin, Madrid and London.

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

But Scott was a real gonzo stylist, and this movie mostly looks like a turd, filled with amateurish, off - putting dissolves and blurry, added - in - post zooms.

After a series of dreary entries in the main competition, a trip to Directors» Fortnight to see Takashi Miike's latest gonzo exercise is exactly what the doctor ordered.

MG: What do you think it takes to be a «gonzo journalist» in today's world?

There's even a nod to the laborious nature of the formula, as one of the characters, after picking up Fozzie Bear and Gonzo, suggests picking up the rest of the Muppets in a montage.

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.

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

She's fucking gonzo, a jittery, slithery, lascivious vamp who wraps her body in camp and rolls around in it, reveling in it like a dog on its back scratching the sweet spot on the ground.