Sentences with phrase «of gonzo»

This is reminiscent of the gonzo logic of the Vietnam War era in which entire villages had to be destroyed in order to save them from the enemy.

The US comes off looking like a clown, which it is not — but rather as an elephant in a very expensive, high end jewellery shop and / or rats in sewers (both analogies do not do justice to either elephants or rats as Dr. Hunter S. Thopmson of Gonzo fame might quip — it is worse than that).

The «po - mo» mock - reportage of Casey Jane Ellison's Touching The Art; Brian Droitcour's Vernacular Criticism and Sarah Nicole Prickett's Truth or Dare article for Artforum's «Scene and Herd» all showed that there were positive signs of gonzo - criticality online.

Jutta Koether: «Champrovent» (closes on Sunday) In her paintings, Ms. Koether has increasingly become somewhat of a gonzo art historian, paying homage to dead artists like Poussin, Manet and Cézanne.

By the way, did you know he's the grandson of Gonzo from the Phantom Hourglass game?

Dead Rising has always given players a variety of weapons and a big, open world to explore, but the latest version chucks out the franchise's last pretenses of seriousness in favor of a gonzo zombie - killing rampage.

For connoisseurs of gonzo vehicular action and mind - blowing practical effects, that was Mad Max: Fury Road.

A comparison of the rootin» - tootin» dream sequence in «Toy Story 3» to any three minutes of this gonzo exercise in computer animation suggests that we're no longer in Monument Valley or, for that matter, Pixar - land.

«Everly» is the sort of gonzo guns and Ginsu knives thriller Tarantino made back before he discovered the joys of bloat.

Thompson influenced the past few generations with his invention of Gonzo Journalism.

While I'm not a fan of this franchise, I can honestly say that audiences never know what type of gonzo story they're going to get with each new installment.

Her mastery of the film's two horny leads and her straight - faced discussion of sexual acts rarely mentioned outside of gonzo porn shows that she can be sexy and humorously gross at the same time.

Number three may eventually give you a headache, and the film occasionally feels like a pileup of gonzo shorts stitched together, but it's engagingly loony while it (and the viewer) lasts.

* Tackling broadly, if clumsily, the hypocrisy of religions that place the church before God, Priest has going for it the same simplicity of its gonzo belief as the similarly interesting The Book of Eli.

Terry Gilliam's hallucinatory 1998 adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's classic of gonzo journalism stars Johnny Depp as Thompson's alter ego Raoul Duke and Benicio De Toro (thrillingly and terrifying unencumbered by any behavioral boundaries) as Dr. Gonzo in the drug - fueled carnival atmosphere of Las Vegas, circa 1971.

For all of the gonzo flourishes, Waititi is a fairly conventional plotter and stager of action scenes, and so eventually we must move on to a denouement we don't quite care about, as well as a potentially weighty theme — Hela might represent the ugly origins that all prosperous societies bury — that stays too far out of focus.

I can't remember our last even good FA signin outside of Gonzo or The Burner Turner..

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I would ask though that I not be lumped with Stephanie / SCCL — while her critiques of Tony are spot on, she has gone gonzo on those women who dared to also critique Pete and Jay especially during the whole Phyllis Tickle debacle — these three boys» history of on and offline bullying is godawful.

Gonzo Higuain, a talented striker who is not even universally seen as a top talent, is on the verge of moving to Juventus for # 79m.

Russell Crowe named his son Tennyson (as in writer Alfred Tennyson), model Niki Taylor named her son Hunter (think gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson), and Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake named their son Silas (title character of George Eliot's novel Silas Marner).

Which is one reason why I'll never be totally on board with conservatism or libertarianism or with the type of liberalism that's gonzo for globalism.

Among his many accolades, the British artist co-invented gonzo journalism — where the storyteller becomes the story — as an illustrator for the various works of lifelong friend Hunter S. Thompson, including Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

The Gonzo Scientist uses «culturomics» — a new field of study, launched in a recent Science paper, that quantitatively explores massive data sets of digitized culture — to create a Science Hall of Fame.

Our gonzo scientist immerses himself in the Italian way of life at the Genoa Festival of Science

You can read all about the nuts and bolts of the project in the Gonzo Scientist story.

I guess my life is kind of like an episode of the Muppet show and I would be gonzo: always on a new quest, pushing my imagination to the limits, and occasionally walking into things.

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That sense of purpose and drive animates Stone in a way that his recent films have not, and even though it's far less gonzo and experimental as Stone's quintessential catalogue, the storytelling skill is still consistently engaging and the resulting 134 minutes inform as well as entertain.

Critics Consensus: The delightfully gonzo tale of a lovestruck teen and his zombified mother, Dead Alive is extremely gory and exceedingly good fun, thanks to Peter Jackson's affection for the tastelessly sublime.

Overall, it's easy to appreciate the screwy, lurid atmosphere, but even as Tarantino's enthusiasm is characteristically infectious, it eventually grows tiresome.Basically, the experience boils down to this: Accept «Django Unchained» on its own gonzo terms and it's a marvelously enjoyable piece of subversive entertainment — for a little while.

However, these are minor quibbles in the grand scheme of things, as the script by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber paints the Tommy Wiseau story as a gonzo La La Land, where the primary theme is never giving up on your dreams.

There are some gruesomely well - orchestrated scenes of body horror (one particular dissection is nightmarishly staged) and Garland's knack for gonzo imagery ensures that many scenes in the film will make a lasting impression.

«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.

In the years since Chris Columbus «sleepy debut films, the series has had its ups (Alfonso Cuarón «s immaculate «Prisoner of Azkaban «-RRB- and its downs (Mike Newell «s gonzo Bollywood «Goblet of Fire «-RRB- before settling in with its designated auteur, David Yates, who has helmed the last four films including this, the final entry, «Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2.»

In pushing the film into gonzo - style comedy instead of melodrama or pure docudrama, Gillespie successfully navigates a very tricky line — this is, after all, a story filled with domestic abuse and violence, something that shouldn't be played for laughs but is also not the focus of the story.

But there are some spots that transcend the rote nature of the film: Zach Galifianakis» gonzo Alan walks with all the film's memorable moments, from his asking about beeper - friendliness to his speech on the roof, and his Rain Man infatuation to his treatment of the baby they find in a closet.

Half the pleasure of giant - monster movies is allowing our suspension of disbelief to buckle like a bridge in Godzilla's path, and true to form, the film saves a few gonzo twists (including one especially outlandish bonus mutation) for the grand finale — an extended set - piece in which the three creatures converge on Chicago, which has typically gotten off easy where natural disasters are concerned.

This movie is incredibly over the top and at times completely gonzo, and that's what makes it so enjoyable, and The Zohan is now one of my new favorite Adam Sandler characters.

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.

The godfather of modern gonzo filmmaking addresses American slavery and race relations the same way he has addressed other sensitive issues: by making a boisterously entertaining movie that couldn't be less interested in sensitivity.

The Blu - ray debut features all the supplements of that release: three commentary tracks (one by director Terry Gilliam, one by stars Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro, and one by producer Laila Nabulsi and author Hunter S. Thompson), deleted scenes with commentary by Gilliam, the 1978 BBC «Omnibus» documentary «Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood» (with Hunter S. Thompson and artist Ralph Steadman), the ten - minute featurette «Hunter Goes to Hollywood,» an audio documentary on the controversy over the screenplay credit, a survey of the marketing campaign, selections from the correspondence between Johnny Depp and Hunter S. Thompson (read on camera by Depp), an excerpt from the 1996 audio CD «Fear and Loathing» starring Maury Chaykin, Jim Jarmusch, Harry Dean Stanton, and Glenne Headly, background notes on Oscar Zeta Acosta (the real life activist and attorney who inspired the character of Dr. Gonzo), and galleries of storyboards, stills, and Ralph Steadman art.

The godfather of modern gonzo filmmaking addresses American slavery and race relations the same way he has addressed other sensitive issues: by making...

For though the third entry into the unlikely sci - fi anthology franchise is by far the weakest of the bunch so far — fairly unsurprising considering its well - documented post-production troubles — it still boasts just enough gonzo weirdness to mostly pass muster.

When: October 11th Why: The first «Machete» wasn't nearly as entertaining as its gonzo premise suggested, but with Robert Rodriguez taking over full directing duties for the sequel, there's a part of me that really wants «Machete Kills» to fulfill that potential, especially with a rumored third installment («Machete Kills Again... In Space!»)

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.

This gonzo sci - fi outing, set in 2259, proves to be a messy amalgam — a motion picture with the body of a mainstream blockbuster but the spirit of a trendy cult flick.

I had planned on doing the good thing and seeing Gonzo: The Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson but it started a bit late.

However, the movie is far more gonzo than those two films ever dreamed of being.

What starts out as a quite promising gonzo pastiche sadly loses steam after the first act, when the script runs out of ways to sustain the hilariously insane premise.

In his gonzo epic «Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,» Hunter S. Thompson referred to the Summer of Love in 1967 as, in retrospect, the point where the great wave of the counterculture «broke and finally rolled back.»