Sentences with phrase «manic performance»

The engine doesn't like being ridden below 3000rpm but once your cross that there is manic performance in each & every gear.

Trusted Servant documents an automated and manic performance of Phelan repeating pre-recorded broadcasts from his MP3 player, which have been compiled and edited from media sources — shortwave and longwave radio, cable link, newspaper articles and webcasts.

Compact dimensions, manic performance and bags of character are all vital ingredients for a hot hatch — so the tuned Abarth 500C doesn't disappoint.

With little in the way of suspense or vested interest, all we can do is sit back and admire the visuals and Jim Carrey's manic performance, which just isn't really enough to make a series of movies on.

To his credit, he does manage to actually gain a few extra chuckles from his manic performance, but the weakness in the material eventually does show, and Mazursky's (Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Moscow on the Hudson) attempt at a throwback to the screwball comedies of the 1920s and 30s replaces wit and panache with fits of desperation.

The Oscar - nominated actor talks to Indiewire about his manic performance in Dan Gilroy's acclaimed directorial debut.

Cinematographer Levie Isaacks often struggles to simply keep the actor's manic performance in focus.

Globo is owned by Ben Stiller, overacting to the point of apoplexy as White Goodman; his manic performance is consistently funny, especially when he protects against Small Man Complex by surrounding himself with enormous body - builders and building an inflatable crotch into his training pants.

Not surprisingly, Carrey's manic performance is the best thing about the film, where his rubber - faced talents are put to their best usage in distinguishing the difference between the mild - mannered Charlie and completely impish Hank.

Abstract Expressionism ends with the manic performances of Paul McCarthy.

Not exact matches

Forster's manic editing style — at its worst in The Quantum of Solace (2008)- does turn that opening street rampage into a blithering mess of shakycam shots, reverse - swish - swoop pans and psycho - edits, but the film soon calms down, and there are several strong performances in the quiet scenes that buffer Lane's ongoing question for answers.

The production is polished, and performances are excellent throughout, particularly those of Jeffrey Tambor as the self - absorbed father and Tyler Labine as Pinkus, Travis» manic pal... But the atmosphere is awfully heavy, self - consciously sober.

Additional film credits include TALK TO ME; the 2006 Oscar ® winning Best Picture, CRASH, which Cheadle also produced; HOTEL RWANDA, for which his performance garnered Academy Award ®, Golden Globe ®, Broadcast Film Critics Award and Screen Actors Guild ® Award nominations for Best Actor; OCEAN»S ELEVEN, OCEAN»S TWELVE, and OCEAN»S THIRTEEN, directed by Steven Soderbergh; Mike Binder's REIGN OVER ME with Adam Sandler; the Academy Award ® winning film TRAFFIC and OUT OF SIGHT, both also directed by Soderbergh; Paul Thomas Anderson's critically acclaimed BOOGIE NIGHTS; BULWORTH, SWORDFISH, MISSION TO MARS, John Singleton's ROSEWOOD, for which Cheadle earned an NAACP Image Award nomination; FAMILY MAN, directed by Brett Ratner and starring Nicolas Cage; COLORS, HAMBURGER HILL, and the independent features MANIC and THINGS BEHIND THE SUN.

After his brilliant performance in Neill Blomkamp's sci - fi actioner DISTRICT 9, Sharlto Copley was soon snapped up to play manic pilot Murdock in Joe...

Despite its lack of cohesiveness the film is proof of the director's skills with some great performances from Mark Wahlberg as a manic / depressive firefighter and an equally disturbed, charming Jude Law.

It is because of the strength of her performance and willingness to lay herself bare that her character doesn't stray into manic pixie dream girl territory — she's much too fully realized, even as a fantasy, to be rendered that shallow of a stereotype.

My Sweet Charlie - Patty Duke won the Emmy for her performance (and made an infamously unfocused acceptance speech - years later she explained she was in a manic phase at the time)

Then there's Gary Busey, who I would say gives one of the best performances in the movie, bringing substance to his role, more so than just his manic persona.

Four Rooms Anchored by a manic comedic performance from Tim Roth that would make Jerry Lewis jealous, the portmanteau film Fou...

While I admire the performances in «The Big Short,» especially Steve Carell (who I would argue deserved the nomination over Christian Bale, if anyone did), and appreciate how McKay distilled a complex subject into something entertaining, there's a manic over-direction to «The Big Short» that irks me.

Robin Williams» movie roles saw him go self - indulgently gooey as often as self - indulgently manic, but in his last great film performance in pal Bobcat Goldthwait's black comedy World's Greatest Dad, he's brilliant.

But as strong as their performances are, they are practically burned to a crisp by Fiennes who, since The Grand Budapest Hotel, appears to have located within himself an unrepressable source of manic comedy.

The signature Dean Cundey camerawork from Halloween and The Fog is there, as is the manic and magnetic performance by Carpenter favorite Donald Pleasence, in his second of three collaborations with the director.

No matter the quality of Gibson's performance therein, the film's dissection of a fractured soul can only reinforce audience reservations about a screen icon now better known for obscene and violent telephone calls than manic action movie roles and Oscar - winning epics.

Restrained performances from Aaron Pederson and the like set against a manic Hugo Weaving makes for a nice dichotomy of character in a film well worth your time.»

Rogen and Byrne have an undeniable charm that actively boosts one another's confidence, to a degree that their performances often feel improvised; performances that thrive off an uncontrollable and manic energy present in whatever room they are in.

Harrelson (After the Sunset, She Hate Me) comes in late in the film, in another manic crackpot performance we've seen far too many times in his career.

They're contrasting performances, too, with Crowe playing the jokes straight (a perfectly timed spit - take being a notable exception) and Gosling indulging in a manic yet entirely cohesive brand of comedy.

Vince Vaughn arrives for some much - needed adrenaline, and yet, he is manic without having the accompanying pith to make his energetic performance funny.

Despite its many problems, Monkeybone somehow manages to hit a stride in its final third with the arrival of Chris Kattan as a reanimated corpse; to say anything more would rob some of the enjoyment of his manic, lunatic performance.

Jack Nicholson is at his best as Torrance, full of manic energy and quotable lines that make his performance both terrifying and incredibly funny to watch; essentially he's being Jack Nicholson.

At the very least, while his modus operandi is the same as Batman v Superman's Lex Luthor, at least Daniel Bruhl's (Burnt) performance as Baron Helmut Zemo doesn't erode the good will of the film as Jesse Eisenberg's manic turn does.

Directing with an even more restless energy than he showed in Kings and Queen, Desplechin sketches out a family tragedy, the untimely death of a first - born, that precedes the story by decades and then only overtly references it a few times, even as the shadow of that death hovers over the film: in the cancer that family matron Junon (Catherine Deneuve) has been diagnosed with, in the fragility of her teenage grandson Paul (Emile Berling), and in the odd sibling dynamics that have caused eldest daughter Elizabeth (Anne Consigny) to, in effect, legally separate herself from her brother Ivan (Mathieu Amalric, in a mesmerizingly manic - depressive performance).

Cher won the Oscar, but Nicolas Cage's manic, stingingly romantic performance as her bitter one - handed suitor («I lost my hand!

Dominic Cooper, on the other hand, is absolutely wasted as the one - dimensional villain, while Michael Keaton, who plays the manic impresario / announcer behind the DeLeon, delivers a wildly over-the-top performance that suggests he's the only one aware of exactly what kind of film they're making.

At least the two performances of these characters are solid, with Gleeson going full speed with a near - manic portrayal of Stensland and with Church doing some fine deadpan as the casually sexist Grady.

It's a devil - may - care performance that will play like nails on a chalkboard to some, but it's wholly representative of the pic's manic bent.

Stiller opted for a less prickly performance with this character than in the manic comedy GREENBERG, which was an arguably more focused project.

Now we have our first chance to listen to both of these performance cars, thanks to new videos in which the wild 493 - hp M4 GTS and the manic 365 - hp M2 slither around Britain's Anglesey Circuit.

It has all the performance bits from the manic 650 - horsepower Z06, but comes with the naturally aspirated 450 - horsepower V8 from the base car.

It led straight into her acoustic version of «Fish» and a riveting evening of spoken word and musical performance about the eventful year when Hersh, just 19, battled manic depression, hit it big with her band and got pregnant.

What had begun as blogging had become «lifecasting,» a manic, full - time performance of Internet David Roberts.

Host, Josh Classen did an excellent job, in spite of the manic auctioneering performance by Mark Scholtz, who was hilarious himself.