Sentences with phrase «left field choice»

Though Henry Cavill has still yet to prove himself as a viable leading man, the rest of the cast is excellent from top to bottom, especially the somewhat left field choice to have Michael Shannon play the villain in a huge summer blockbuster.

If you ignore the runners up, it reads like a standard list of Oscar frontrunners with one token left field choice.

Indie director David Gordon Green, an out of left field choice if ever there was one, successfully married hilarious pot culture humour with splendidly ridiculous action, and gave us a great pairing in Seth Rogen (admittedly doing his usual Seth Rogen thing, basically his cop from Superbad in a suit) and James Franco, the latter of which had me laughing hard pretty much anytime he was on - screen.

We also forget that Wenger was a left field choice when he got the job, Wenger has been great for us but arsenal has been great for him, we've given him a seat at the top table which he wouldn't have had at grampus 8.

As mentioned earlier, the shortlist is prone to offering up some left field choices that leave pundits scratching their heads.

Not exact matches

Cavani joined PSG from Napoli in 2013 for $ 60 million but has struggled to produce his best form, having regularly been fielded out wide to accommodate first - choice centre - forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who will leave this summer.

A left - field choice, Kilbane works for a variety of sources with unerring consistency.

Daley Blind — 5/10: A surprise start at centre - back for the Dutchman who, as the only left - footed defender on the field, and an experienced full - back to boot, seemed a more obvious choice to play at left - back after a glance at the team sheet.

So we're left with not much choice but to conclude you did not understand the research or didn't read it, since people who understand statistics, researching, and the field of obstetrics have come to vastly different conclusions than you.

So that leaves Heastie and the members of his conference with a tough choice: Appoint the qualified woman from downstate, clear the field for a bunch of other men with political ambitions, or let the qualified woman already in office serve her time and let every interested candidate fight it out at the ballot box.

A fable - like story about a young African girl banished from her village for alleged witchcraft, it blends deadpan humor with light surrealism, vivid visuals and left - field musical choices.

This isn't the first time that the media giant has gone from left field with their choices, hiring directors famous inside the world of independent film but not much farther than that.

For all of his obvious skills and uncommon talent as a visual storyteller, Kosinski's first two films were short on character depth and emotional engagement, but whether a function of Kosinski's innate preferences for spectacle over substance or simply script - related issues, Kosinski's feature - film output made him an odd, left - of - field choice to direct a film about American firefighters and the Yarnell Hill Fire of 2013 that resulted in the greatest loss of firefighters since 9 - 11 more than a decade earlier.

This emphasis on complexity and a disinterest in reducing a heroine to a sad - sack victim extends to Lelio's hyper - vivid aesthetic, which drapes the film in surreal dream sequences, beautiful colors and left - field soundtrack choices like «Time» during a pivotal emotional scene.

I think he's in along with Beaufoy, Roth and Peter Morgan, and hopefully either Shanley or the Nolans will take that 5th slot, or a left - field foreign choice like Tell No One, The Class, Let the Right One In or Gomorrah.

It's a left - field casting choice that ends up making «Selma,» a film of formulaic, awards - y tendencies that ends up being completely overpowered by one of the year's great performances.

Willis, another choice out of left field for such an intimate film, excels as a regular guy breaking all moral rules.

The NYFCC's bold left - field choice was awarding Tiffany Haddish the Best Supporting Actress award for Girls Trip, making an Oscar campaign for the rising comedy star a likely, and pretty awesome, proposition all of a sudden.

The sibling duo is just the latest in Marvel's line of left - field director choices, and they acquit themselves remarkably well, so much so that they've already been invited back for another installment.

The IS is probably the car you'd pick to stand out - it lacks the all - round talents of the other but has appeal as a left - field choice.

The slightly left - field choice will be the diesel - electric hybrid, which doesn't quite deliver the running costs you might expect and is the most expensive version to buy, too.

remains a left - field choice in Europe, where its rugged image hasn't quite hooked up with buyers in the market for SUVs that will be used predominantly on roads instead of in the wild.

What is it: A mini-compact hot hatch for people seeking a left - field choice.

A more left - field choice is the Lexus GS, which came as a hybrid saloon only.

For this week's podcast, Wynter and I examine Sony's E3 Showcase choices, How Rage 2's announcement was completely out of left field, and why Hollywood keeps setting up video game movie adaptation's to fail.

Then, later on we knew that we wanted some pixel art games in Frobisher said and I thought Jude might be good, kind of left - field, choice for that.