Sentences with phrase «in knockabout»

The actor, who is currently in Prestige Acting Mode for Sacha Gervasi's making - of - Psycho drama Hitchcock, is apparently happy to kick back and play a scheming baddie named Edward Bailey in the knockabout action comedy follow - up.

It's also assiduously funny, not only in knockabout subversive dialogue but in subtle details: Shirley Henderson plays a lickspittle office bunny who copies her boss Lucy Mirando's way of sitting knock - kneed.

Not exact matches

Like all debates they have a certain unsatisfactory, knockabout air which does not lend itself to a sincere dialogue in search of truth.

The England international — along with fellow Liverpool stars Nathaniel Clyne and Adam Lallana, have taken part in an impromptu knockabout during the Merseysiders» pre-season tour of Australia.

In common with agrowing number of older voters, what young people don't care about is the sort of politics that you and I rather like - the knockabout, the earnest discussions, the thrill of electoral organisation and campaigning.

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

In a particularly subdued edition of our weekly political knockabout, PMQs, neither Punch nor Judy were anywhere to be seen as Ed Miliband and David Cameron politely chatted about the floods.

It was directed by the team of John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, who were co-writers on «Horrible Bosses» (2011) and «Spider - Man: Homecoming» (2017), and there's an echo of the former film's knockabout misanthropy in their rollicking staging.

Far more clever and witty than the knockabout silliness promised by the coming attractions, this is a film that is more interested in character comedy than slapstick and gives Melissa McCarthy the most appealing role of her career and allows Jason Statham to deliver one of the most unexpectedly hilarious comedic turns in recent memory.

The most cerebral of actresses even in her comic roles (think Devil Wears Prada), Streep makes her debut as a knockabout physical comic.

Like the trailers promised, «The Lego Batman Movie» is a dazzling, knockabout, joke - a-second comedy set in the DC Comics universe that's so overstuffed with gags that catching them all in one viewing is impossible.

With the possible exception of his appearance as «Frostee Cream Boy» in Sling Blade, Jim Jarmusch's most memorable moment as an actor came in Wayne Wang and Paul Auster's knockabout character-fest Blue In The Facin Sling Blade, Jim Jarmusch's most memorable moment as an actor came in Wayne Wang and Paul Auster's knockabout character-fest Blue In The Facin Wayne Wang and Paul Auster's knockabout character-fest Blue In The FacIn The Face.

But I can confidently report that it's another mammoth achievement for Anderson, who shot the film in 65 mm — not for the sake of spectacle (it doesn't have anything like the grand vistas of Marfa, Texas in There Will Be Blood), but for the intensely intimate relationship that develops between a knockabout WWII veteran (Joaquin Phoenix) and the charismatic religious visionary (Philip Seymour Hoffman) who offers him a way forward.

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.

Baird's direction is of a similarly heedless, knockabout nature, filching from other filmmakers with magpie abandon: Kubrick in the sweaty, distortive use of closeup, Fassbinder in an arch, unexpectedly resolved strain of Germanic camp, and Gilliam in Robertson's fantasy sessions with swollen - headed shrink Jim Broadbent — perhaps the film's least successful flight of fancy.

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

In lesser hands, this could have turned into a sub-Father Ted - style knockabout comedy with a dark undertone.

Director Alfredo De Villa doesn't play it for the kind of knockabout comedy so often seen in these films (like the shrill hit «Four Christmases»).

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

If fills you with the same sense of knockabout freedom and possibility that is manifested repeatedly in the Sigmar Polke retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art (and repeatedly denied in the suffocating Jeff Koons retrospective at the Whitney).

In this work Graham plays two versions of himself, an urban dandy and a provincial rustic, two paired particles set for a repeated, cataclysmic encounter played out within the long cinematic tradition of the «knockabout» Also featured in the exhibition is a two part photographic work, Fishing on the Jetty, where the artist plays Cary Grant in Hitchcock's To Catch a ThieIn this work Graham plays two versions of himself, an urban dandy and a provincial rustic, two paired particles set for a repeated, cataclysmic encounter played out within the long cinematic tradition of the «knockabout» Also featured in the exhibition is a two part photographic work, Fishing on the Jetty, where the artist plays Cary Grant in Hitchcock's To Catch a Thiein the exhibition is a two part photographic work, Fishing on the Jetty, where the artist plays Cary Grant in Hitchcock's To Catch a Thiein Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief.

There's a lot to see — the exhibition, which was organized by New Museum curator Lauren Cornell and the artist Ryan Trecartin, feels crowded in spots — but that doesn't translate into the knockabout energy that characterized the earlier versions.

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

It's only chocolate, you might say (like the marzipan turds in Pasolini's Salo), and the action may be so knockabout as to be unbelievable, but this is still a theatre of cruelty, in the Hollywood Jacobean mode.

Brimming with knockabout energy, Arlene Shechet's polymorphous clay sculptures... feel almost illegitimate in their sensuality and humor.

In the weekly knockabout that is prime minister's question - time, the Labour opposition leader Ed Miliband pressed David Cameron to admit to this tendency at the heart of his own party.

Maybe I asked the wrong sort of lawyer as he, while being an accomplished practitioner in his field, is a knockabout criminal defence hack with little need for theory and sophisticated legal strategies.