Not exact matches
Devoid of
bombast, the audience is presented with the always convincing story of a
man who has no choice but to adapt and survive in a claustrophobic prison system.
Even without Roach's grating habit of shooting the proceedings in too - tight close - ups, Cranston delivers a titanic fill - the - screen turn, capturing the
man's
bombast and sincerity in equal measure.
Shot on quasi-grainy digital at close range and evenly lit in autumnal tones, Zachary Treitz's Civil War - set
Men Go to Battle lacks the polish and
bombast of much costlier historical dramas.
Those who've found solace in the bewilderingly esoteric arms of A Serious
Man or the
bombast of The Hudsucker Proxy will likely concede Hail, Caesar!
That unabashed
bombast has made Wiley a walking superlative: the most successful black artist since Basquiat, possibly the wealthiest painter of his generation, certainly the one who made his name earliest (he was 26 for his first major solo show), a gay
man who has become the great painter of machismo for the swag era, a bootstrapper from South Central who talks like a Yale professor (much of the time), a genius self - promoter who's managed to have it both ways in an art world that loves having its critical cake and eating the spectacle of it, too, and a crossover phenomenon who is at once the hip - hop world's favorite fine artist (Spike Lee and LL Cool J own pieces) and the gallery world's most popular hip - hop ambassador.