Sentences with phrase «in screwball»

Lucius, who also works in collage, works out of a studio in Screwball Space in Red Hook.

Like a character in a screwball comedy, they wear an expression that says, I don't know what happened, Officer; one minute I was just standing here, and then...

In the screwball romantic comedy OURAN HIGH SCHOOL HOST CLUB by Bisco Hatori, Haruhi, a poor girl at a rich kids» school, is forced to repay an $ 80,000 debt by working for the school's swankiest, all - male club — as a boy!

Nothing Sacred — Fredric March and Carole Lombard star in this screwball comedy about a reporter writing a series of stories on a young girl dying from radium poisoning.

When Susan Sarandon prances onto the scene, with cigarette dangling from painted lips and sporting a bee - hived «do, the film shifts tone so uncomfortably you swear they've spliced in a screwball moment from a Sandra Bullock romance.

Leslie Nielsen has excelled in screwball comedies in the past, but what this film really needs is new blood if there were to be any chance at sustaining our interest.

The Festival will celebrate his talent with his collaboration with Barbara Striesand in the screwball comedy What's Up Doc?.

She Done Him Wrong (1933), written by and starring Mae West, doesn't quite fit in the screwball genre of the rest of the films, but it's a classic directed by the underrated Lowell Sherman and featuring a very young Car Grant.

The Lovers is interested in exaggerating how people lack the ability to communicate, not in screwball antics.

While Davis primarily shined as a dramatic actress, she was also capable of delivering strong comic performances and her turn in the screwball comedy The Man Who Came to Dinner ranks as her best.

It's always a bad move in a screwball comedy to take your own characters and plot too seriously, and for long stretches, director Mel Smith (Bean, The Tall Guy) fancies Blackball as a movie worth taking seriously.

Ksenia Rappoport as Chekhov's Yelena has the wit and variousness of Katherine Hepburn in a screwball comedy

It's important in a screwball romance that the players can banter tit for tat, and the always spirited Zellweger's casting secures it.

Continuing an ongoing friendship that started with Freaks & Geeks, Seth Rogen and James Franco starred in this screwball comedy about stoners fleeing hitmen and police after witnessing a murder.

Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Prodigal Janitor Gets Mired in Emotional Quagmire in Screwball Sitcom This indie flick isn't half - bad, for a taut, neo-noir thriller that inexplicably transforms into a screwball comedy somewhere around its midway point.

Still, there's something about Grant's performance that carries the film; the whiff of anxiety and facile insincerity that fuels Grant's iconic turns in screwball comedies serves him well as the slightly askew Johnnie.

It is also pleasing to see that in an age in which the romantic comedy is such an unfashionable genre in the cinema that filmmakers are, at least, attempting to go back to basics and call to mind a style of filmmaking in the screwball comedy that is all too rarely visible in the modern era.

To some degree, this is to be expected in screwball comedy, given that a majority of the films of the genre had to balance Production Code coyness (unless it was a pre-Code film like Lubitsch's Living) and Hollywood sentimentality.

René Clair, Fredric March, and Veronica Lake cast sensational spells in this screwball supernatural treat.

In between his grey - haired later roles and beginnings in Vaudeville, Grant first became a star in Hollywood thanks to his roles as a comic leading man in screwball comedies.

Can we all just agree that casting Sam Rockwell and Anna Kendrick in a screwball crime caper rom - com is a great idea?

O'Neal did get some pretty good work, appearing alongside Barbra Streisand in the screwball comedy What's Up, Doc?

Oscar - winners Cary Grant («The Awful Truth,» «North by Northwest») and Katharine Hepburn («The African Queen,» «On Golden Pond») star in this screwball comedy classic about a madcap heiress who upsets the staid existence of a straitlaced zoology professor.

The good news is that some parts of this shopping list are checked off with style and grace: Tony and Pepper are still, at heart, the leads in a screwball comedy — and Downey and Paltrow are top form here; the new villain has the comics» Crimson Dynamo's name — Ivan Vanko [Mickey Rourke]-- but instead of wearing the hopelessly out of date crimson armor, wields a pair of plasma whips that can slice and dice even Stark's fancy suit; and finally, there's Justin Hammer [Sam Rockwell — who was a finalist in casting Stark], a hi - tech weapons manufacturer who got Stark's old Department of Defence contracts even though he's not nearly as talented.

An heiress and a playboy find themselves hilariously entangled in this screwball comedy.

But the heat in those screwballs remains underrated.

Not exact matches

I'm in the saddle every day playing a screwball.

Believing in a bunch of impossible, screwball things to explain the physical world around them in the 21st Century.

In my humble opinion, this screwball deserved his fate.

The pace of Star Wars is rapid fire for most of its hour and 57 minutes, and the script is filled with a verbal and visual wit that has been rare in Hollywood movies since the screwball comedies of the «30s.

how does fair, unbiased CNN, AKA ACNN (Anderson Cooper News Network) pick and choose stories as noteworthy... a comment is made by a very elderly priest, probably not quoted properly, and is «front page news» on CNN's website... this same man (priest) has written many great books, done a lot of great charity work in the poorer parts of New York and nothing is ever posted on the website... but something is said incorrectly and its published... is this fair, is it right, is it unbiased or is the motivation to make an entire Church lokk bad and let the anti-Catholic screwballs have their heyday in hateful posts... I didn't see this wonderful netwrok post anything about the disgusting, bigoted and hateful attacks, written by the liberal left wing media elites, like Maureen Dowd, against Rep. Paul Ryan and his Catholic faith... it's all acceptable to you liberal HYPOCRITES!

This man should not be put in charge of a whelk stall, so my friends, at this dawn of a New Year for us all and the club we love, please say a prayer to whatever you believe in for that deity - or just fate, if you prefer — for something, ANYTHING, to remove this screwball manager from our club.

«If he was playing in the 1950s with that pitch, they'd call it a screwball,» says Red Sox pitching coach Joe Kerrigan, who used to coach Martinez on the Expos.

He shakes his head when he thinks of Marichal: «When he's at the prime of his game he throws a good fastball, a good screwball, a good changeup, a good slider, a good you - have - it... and obviously the elimination system can't work; you can't just throw out five or six different pitches in the hope of seeing the one you want; the odds of seeing it would be too much against the batter.»

Last year Juan Marichal saw this activity, the plate umpire reaching in a special ball bag at his waist to introduce a special ball to the game, and not being aware of the procedure, Marichal felt that he was the victim of some odd plot, that perhaps the ball he would get from the umpire was going to pop in two and emit smoke as he gripped it for his screwball.

But the NBA ought to really acknowledge its role in creating this hideous mess and be sure it doesn't create another one in the process of unraveling the current screwball system.

NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton on Sunday lashed out at ATV riders who illegally flood the streets in the summer, calling them «idiots,» «morons» and «screwballs» while vowing to destroy their...

Staffers in payroll offices, benefits departments, and computer services departments labored to develop new job codes, some of which violated longstanding UC procedures; to extensively revise software, some of it decades old; to establish a single enrollment and accounting setup despite very different local circumstances; and to find answers to some screwball questions.

Harlow and Tracy are only second bananas in this poor second cousin to a screwball comedy.

This irredeemably silly tropical screwball comedy, made in 2009, is only now getting a release - and that's no surprise.

The film has more in common with 1930s screwball (films filled with obvious coincidences) than the more clunky, often - humorless films that pass for «rom - coms» today.

A screwball road movie set in a middle - of - nowhere town, Kwik Stop suggests «It Happened One Night» as reimagined by David Lynch or Hal Hartley.

A one - joke movie if ever there was, but the joke happens to be a good one — a Tracy - and - Hepburn - style battle of the sexes in which Kate can fly and blast through walls — and director Ivan Reitman (who made Ghostbusters) feels at home with the mix of screwball and supernatural.

There is, no doubt, a great screwball comedy to be made about adult children who won't leave home, and the mothers and fathers who collude in the arrangement — and not just for reasons of economics.

The proceedings suddenly pick up some screwball charm, the writing improves (with several truly inspired one - liners tossed in here and there) and the secondary characters begin to click.

Cary Grant and Constance Bennett are Thorne Smith's continental ghosts, haranguing tired businessman Roland Young in arch screwball style.

Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal star in a zany send - up of the screwball comedies of the 1930s with Peter Bogdanovich's What's Up, Doc?.

The film doesn't necessarily «work» in the traditional sense, because it's not really a faithful parody or re-imagining of the screwball comedy.

As with all screwballs, of course, there must be a fetching female to spar with, and she soon emerges in the person of Lexie Littleton (Renée Zellweger), a reporter who's gotten a tip that Carter's war record may not be quite as heroic as advertised.

• This was Clooney's second collaboration with the Coens, and he is again in fine form unleashing his inner Cary - Grant screwball.