Sentences with phrase «most gonzo»

But while movies like «End of Watch,» «Prisoners» and «Enemy» have helped remind audiences why he's one of the best actors of his generation, «Nightcrawler» pushes that envelope even further with what appears to be his most gonzo performance yet.

A mix of H.P. Lovecraft madness, David Cronenberg biological mutation and David Lynch small - town weirdness, it teasingly dangles explanations never delivered and escapes never sought, while diving into one of the most gonzo horrors to twist onto celluloid in years.

Not exact matches

Rolling Stone isn't Fortune, and Taibbi, the music magazine's latest heir to Hunter S. Thompson's gonzo mantle, has spent the past two years filing the mainstream media's most vitriolic stories about Wall Street.

«For an episode that really screws up some innocent lives, it has a delightfully gonzo - heist vibe, which could have felt dismissive but actually adds a queasy note that elevates the whole thing... And, most importantly, we get a lot of Wendy.

And while certain sequences, like a jaw - droppingly gonzo car chase around the White House grounds, are well worth the eventual YouTube search, most elements comprise a strata of ridiculousness, like the ever - mounting motives of an immediately unmasked villain.

But the movie is probably too gonzo for most academy voters» tastes.

The most notable assassin of the bunch — a man who calls himself The Sadist (Togo Igawa) and uses various poisons and acids to torture his victims — is not only a repulsive homage to gonzo Japanese torture porn, but feels completely out of sync with the rest of the movie's more whimsical tone.

Whether using gonzo filming techniques that compromise investigation or training a new helper, Louis puts everything on the line to become L.A.'s most successful roving reporter.

The Muppets Most Wanted — Review by Frances Winston Directed by: James Bobbin Starring: Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzy Bear, the Great Gonzo, Animal, Ricky Gervais, Tina Fey, Ty Burrell, Ray -LSB-...]

Joseph Gordon - Levitt at his most likable plays gonzo bicycle courier Wilee, aka «Coyote Man.»

I would say that the one that kind of represents the Midnight Madness experience the most might be Takashi Miike's Yakuza Apocalypse, because it is just a gonzo brain - melter.

That said, some of their most recent films I haven't entirely clicked with: «Burn After Reading» was fun, but feels minor in retrospect, while «True Grit» was uncharacteristically straightforward and old - fashioned in the context of some of their more gonzo affairs.

You've probably never heard of Thad Roberts, the brilliant young NASA recruit who pulled off one of the most audacious heists in history when he tiptoed out of the Johnson Space Center one rainy Texas night in 2003 with a 600 - pound safe containing $ 20 million in moon rocks.Even Ben Mezrich, the gonzo - inspired biographer of Ivy League geeks...

- The Independent (UK) «Mixing moments of brilliant lucidity and wit with vast tranches of wayward verbiage, Self's gonzo autobiography demonstrates everything that is best and worst about this most uninhibited of authors.»

Gonzo Garcia, Chief Information Officer at South Kent School, is the technological leader in one the country's most digitally progressive preparatory schools.

Of all the stories I've written over the years, I've gotten the most spirited reader response from two of my more experimental travel tales — Storming «The Beach», which was a gonzo - philosophical look at a Leonardo DiCaprio movie that was being filmed in Thailand, and The Art of Writing a Story About Walking Across Andorra, a second - person - voice meta - satire about generic travel writing.

The Muppets: Movie Adventures features Kermit, Gonzo, Animal, Fozzie, and Miss Piggy as famous Hollywood actors always ready to film the most dangerous and exciting movie scenes.

Pieces of the history have been gathered before, most notably in Joellen Bard's «Tenth Street Days: The Co-ops of the 50's,» a small 1977 book about the formation of the D.I.Y and at times gonzo gallery district near Cooper Union largely built by artists banding together against commercial and critical indifference.

In Liquidity inc., Steyerl makes one of her characteristic intellectual leaps and connects extreme financial events to extreme climate events: the jet stream of money changes direction when the Dow Jones collapses, then suddenly a gonzo weather forecaster, masked in black, is gesturing across the most political of politically geographical maps you ever saw — noting failed states and off - shore tax havens, isobars indicating flows of capital rather than weather fronts.

It seems that most people who have weighed in on this would classify themselves as Gonzo.