Sentences with phrase «into sparring matches»

The most entertaining scenes in the film involve the bizarre comedy of Harland Williams, who twice gets into sparring matches with animals.

The announcement quickly turned into a sparring match between the two lawmakers on one side and a host of individuals who don't like talk of a hybrid solution on the other side.

Not exact matches

Howard presents the fateful interview that helped secure Tricky Dick's legacy as a verbal sparring match between journalist and interviewee, turning what could have been a flat series of conversations into a genuinely tense procedural.

And in one of the variously skilled ways that the film folds recognisable tensions into its forever - evolving highwire act, continual mileage arises from the sparring match between Kevin (Lamorne Morris) and his partner Michelle (Kylie Bunbury), who lets slip that she once slept with a celebrity but won't reveal who.The circle widens out to include not just some notably impolite baddies who seem to be liking the game a bit too much but a hilariously weird next - door neighbour (Jesse Plemons, pictured above) who doesn't take to the notion that the game might be happening without him.

In Broken Arrow, the classic Melville - Woo themes are not so much developed as simplified into a «friendly» sparring match between the two male leads, hero Christian Slater and villain John Travolta.