Sentences with phrase «knowing wink»

Peele is clearly a horror fan, and he gives knowing winks to many genre cliches (the jump scare, the dream) while anchoring his entire film in the upending of the «final girl.»

Serious devotees of historical fiction will appreciate Spufford's unrestrained verbosity and knowing winks toward his influences.

But, even as he's gigging the moguls, Wolff is openly in awe of them, frequently bemoaning (with a knowing wink) his helpless adoration.

A lean to the under and when I close my eyes I can see a 1 - 0 United win and Jose giving everybody a knowing wink.

First, the film has one character randomly decry Return of the Jedi, because «everyone knows the third movie is always the worst» — a knowing wink to those who loathed X-Men: The Last Stand, the franchise's third film and one of two X-movies to be made by someone not named Bryan Singer.

Freeway glints here and there with dark humor amounting to a knowing wink that undercuts the cautionary tale at its heart and the seriousness of its graphic sociology.

Charged with raucous energy and a satirical slant, this witty history lesson is preaching to the converted, sharing a knowing wink with everyone who's ever inhaled.

Considering this came out in the post-Scream era there's still some knowing winks and poor attempts at humor sprinkled throughout.

Maxed out with metaphor, the satirical nature of such films give a knowing wink and nod to ardent buffs of genre cinema.

At its heart, this film asks its audience to accept a contradiction, which it sells with a knowing wink and rather successfully.

Anderson's visual compositions are often astounding — they move beyond representing mere whimsical mimicry to channeling the dollhouse panoramas and Boys» Life directives that have fueled many a childhood fantasy — and the film's humor offers sly, knowing winks and jolting sight gags alike.

Like James Bond, wilfully anonymous driver Frank Martin is reborn as a new actor without any fuss, shifting the tone of the franchise from Jason Statham's knowing wink to Ed Skrein's stone - faced glower.

His methods were fresh and his style of storytelling was wonderfully mad, punctuated with wry smiles and knowing winks.

All of these events are written and directed with a knowing wink that begins to wear out its welcome the first time it happens, and that isn't improved by the next dozen time they pull that rabbit out of the hat.

It sure isn't the seven you've seen in the marketing, and the movie itself contradicts its lineup with a knowing wink.

A mumblecore vet made good, Brooklyn actor - director Sophia Takal steps up considerably with this ridiculously entertaining Brian De Palma — esque thriller, the surprise of the fest, one with a knowing wink in the direction of Persona.

Though the film never strays too far from the tried - and - true Marvel formula, it's not afraid to get a little weird either, embracing the absurdity of the material with a knowing wink, as if to say, «Are you having fun yet?»

Alfred Hitchcock's career proper begins with a blonde girl's dying scream and ends on a similarly coiffed woman's knowing wink.

It's a fundamentally dishonest emotional beat, especially since the departed has met her end in a grisly comic set - piece that's surely a knowing wink to a «South Park» episode that featured poor Butters haunted by the memory of a tap - dance recital gone wrong.

The game also takes itself so seriously, there is no tongue - in - cheek and knowing winks to let you know that the game realises it's taking things a bit far.

Knowing that the story speaks for itself, they simply work to make it fun, delivering small gags and knowing winks.

Plus, with the knowing wink of casting Harry Potter himself in this magician film, it looks like director Jon Chu is having the exact sort of fun that filmmakers should have with this ridiculous but entertaining premise.

Like an immodest supermodel, it just can't stop teasing us with a knowing wink, flaunting its alluring curves and pixel - perfect pecs, whilst shoving its sopping wet bodywork in our faces.

Hearkening back to velvet paintings of the 1960s, with the addition of timeless denim, these works also lend a knowing wink to current times.

With a knowing wink at notions of cultural heritage, Rashid Johnson's quest for self - knowledge saw him install a zebra - furred shrink's couch in the South London Gallery three years ago.

Helene Appel, Cynthia Daignault, and Meyer Vaisman share real pleasures along with a knowing wink.

Cynthia Daignault, Helene Appel, and Meyer Vaisman share real pleasures along with a knowing wink.

He means retreads of painting, with a smear and a knowing wink to show that both you and the artist see right through them, in yet another self - conscious display of beauty and smarts.

Meyer Vaisman, Helene Appel, and Cynthia Daignault share real pleasures along with a knowing wink.

There is a knowing wink in an exhibition titled «sophisticated shit.»

The term is a knowing wink at the conceptual games played by LeWitt and his fellow conceptual artists, particularly Robert Rauschenberg, who himself famously erased a drawing by Willem de Kooning and presented it as his own.

That isn't a spoiler as much as a knowing wink to Ubisoft's business acumen.