Sentences with word «knockabout»

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»).
Much of the humor in the film is of a character - based variety, which kind of surprised me in a good way because the first trailers seemed to suggest a more knockabout comedy with plenty of sight gags like Melissa McCarthy falling off of her motorcycle.
You get the picture, but though The Seagull has its moments of quietly knockabout farce, mostly the movie inclines intimately, subtly, to the sadness of the incomplete life.
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.
All parties felt the same, even the Tories, because despite the damage they love a bit of Commons knockabout as much as anyone.
«Business is always complaining to me that they think that the party political knockabout gets in the way of building consensus around policy so they can make long - term investment decisions.
There was plenty of good knockabout copy in entries like Tracey Emin's tousled bedsheets and Martin Creed's lights going on and off.
Even though the script might let her down, Schumer does still manage to sell a smattering of the comic moments (the opening scene has a promising knockabout tone), but when she reaches the more dramatic elements, she struggles to convince.
By the time mainstream audiences encountered Chan in 1998's «Rush Hour», age and common sense had caught up with him, and he never quite matched the exuberant blend of comic knockabout thrills and heart - stopping spills from this landmark cop flick, where his character's pledge to protect state witness Brigitte Lin endangers both of them.
Brimming with knockabout energy, Arlene Shechet's polymorphous clay sculptures... feel almost illegitimate in their sensuality and humor.
11:00 - Could we be looking at our first PMQ knockabout on ID cards?
One of their more knockabout projects, following the deadpan Inside Llewyn Davis, this one's a classic - era Hollywood kidnap caper.
July 28, 2014 • Equal parts rowdy and loving, the husband - and - wife duo of Michael Trent and Cary Ann Hearst radiates knockabout charm.
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.
They make zombie movies for every mood, ranging from knockabout gore comedy to low - key art cinema.
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.
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.
Of the big speakers, former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson delivered the kind of speech that I could imagine Ken Clarke or Michael Heseltine giving, using wit and knockabout humour to drive home his serious message: McCain is a man of honour who will always put the country first; Obama lacks experience and stands for higher taxes and big government.
The comparison could be described as a bit of light - hearted knockabout but Ms Wood believes there is a pattern of personal and patronising attitudes to women in the chamber from Labour ministers.
His annual knockabout also serves a useful coalition purpose.
Don't worry if your capsule doesn't include activity - specific clothing (gym clothes, gardening clothes, etc.) or knockabout clothes you wear around your house.
It's also got great knockabout visual gags, mercifully little cutey - poo sentiment, and reasonable songs.
It's a thin premise that cues much cheery knockabout comedy, with ample scope for impressively whooshy 3D tracking shots.
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.
It's a long way from Orwell's dark, intelligent warning cry [1984] to the empty stud knockabout of Equilibrium, and what once was conviction is now affectation.
«The Incredibles» director Brad Bird could choreograph daring rocket escapes and soaring jet - pack flights with both eyes shut, while George Clooney and Britt Robertson have a thoroughly convincing knockabout chemistry — though both play second fiddle to blank - eyed British youngster Raffey Cassidy as a mysterious dimensional exile.
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 Face.
The Coen brothers conjure up nostalgic joy from this hilarious knockabout homage to the golden age of film
The film was shot between 4 am and 6.30 am on the streets of Kreuzberg in Berlin, and it follows the nighttime travails of the titular character (played by Laia Costa) as she tipsily stumbles from a late night club dance club and hooks up with a group of latchkey knockabouts who let them into their world.
Behind the façade of easy living and knockabout camaraderie is a bleak portrait of the mental and emotional scars left on a generation of men broken the meat grinder of the first modern industrial war.
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.
The pleasures are mostly to do with the rambunctious, knockabout antics of the two improvising male leads as they variously flirt and threaten their way through the immoral maze of the case.
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.
The fighters» knockabout lives are all of a piece inside and outside the ring.
Shawn Levy's knockabout domestic dramedy «This Is Where I Leave You,» about far - flung siblings gathering after their father's death, at its best has a «Diner» - like flavor, though it's not in the same class as that movie.
There are dated touches, from George's defence lawyer Archie Leech (Cleese)-- whom Wanda seduces to find out the location of the loot — putting up with his dull trophy wife to the dash through airport security towards the end, but it feels intentional thanks to the appointment of Ealing Comedy vet Crichton at the helm, who ratchets up the old - fashioned, knockabout pace like a Titfield Thunderbolt gathering steam.
In lesser hands, this could have turned into a sub-Father Ted - style knockabout comedy with a dark undertone.
For much of film history, his influence was felt most vividly in movie musicals, where the athleticism of Gene Kelly, especially, seemed to call back to Keaton's knockabout screen presence.
That promise begins in a remote Wyoming setting where knockabout cowhands Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger spend a summer in the early»60s tending a herd of sheep for rancher Randy Quaid.
SCOOP is actually a really enjoyable knockabout comedy reminiscent of Allen's «early funny ones,» it even has Anthony Head as a copper alongside the man at the forefront of this article, Alexander Armstrong.
The sheer agility of John Donnelly's script for The Pass, which began life on the stage of the Royal Court, was striking, with director Ben A Williams deliberately keeping the action, dominated by knockabout performances from Russell Tovey and Arinzé Kene, in claustrophobic interiors.
His previous work, Marius and Jeannette (1997), has, for the most part, a loose, knockabout quality to it.
The romantic asides (his poignant longing for a flighty showgirl) still play too, showcasing the sophistication of Chaplin's acting as well as his facility for balletic knockabout.
And then there's the competitive multiplayer which, whether you indulge in such things as a serious, regular pastime, or simply like to dip in from time to time for a quick blast of knockabout carnage, offers something meaty and meaningful for everyone.
Five years ago, Murray left Criterion, where he had been working on the blockbusting Burnout series of knockabout racers.
Some of the top local titles span the gamut from one - man teams through tightly focused console indies, including Texas - honed games such as physics - heavy iPhone puzzler Enigmo, CosMind's evocative art - game Glum Buster, Red Fly Studios» Wii / DS quirky Mushroom Men duo, knockabout Guildhall @ SMU student title ToyBox Heroes, and user - generated game website Mockingbird.
I much prefer Angela de la Cruz's work, with its painful humour, honesty and knockabout abjection.
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).
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