Sentences with phrase «of circus sideshow»

Some of the most memorable and best episodes were the ones they where they investigated the Flukeman, or the community of the circus sideshow, or the controversial episode «Home.»

This classic disturbing thriller, which highlights a group of circus sideshow acts who take vengeance on their leader when a beautiful trapeze artist does him wrong, was banned in the UK for 30 years and wasn't available in the country until a home - video version was approved in the early 1990s.

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Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass.

A circus - themed analysis from the left - leaning Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington categorized Cuomo as a «sideshow» — the least awful of its three categories of bad executives — for what the group described as transparency and cronyism failures.

When a gang of thieves, hiding out in a circus sideshow, decides to steal from the wealthy owner, there are horrific consequences!

The son of a sideshow barber working with the Barnum and Bailey circus, Faye (born Joseph Palladino) started out as a Borscht Belt comic during the early»30s.

This often risible mood piece stars Megan Fox as a circus sideshow attraction who has actual angel wings growing out of her back.

PASSION PLAY This often risible mood piece stars Megan Fox as a circus sideshow attraction who has actual angel wings growing out of her back.

But there's also something interesting about the movie's deliberate musical anachronisms, which operate as kind of a crude unifying theory of poptimism, depicting everything from opera to circus sideshows as polished, MOR crossover hits, all millennial whoops, generically walloping beats, and self - actualization.

Add in Willem Dafoe's stern but loving motel manager, torn between his desire to protect the children and keeping even a little sense of authority and propriety in the sideshow circus that is the transient motel living population, and you've got a movie with a vital and exposed beating heart.

David Lynch's moving true - life tale of the severely deformed Joseph Merrick and his rescue from the hell of a Victorian circus sideshow stars the late John Hurt, who is unrecognisable, yet recognisably human — the kind of vulnerable, sensitive performance that made him such a phenomenal screen presence.

I wish I could think of one single thing that Extinction has going for it, but I'm coming up blank — not only does it bungle its core gameplay mechanics, it then repeats the same circus sideshow way, way beyond the threshold of any sane person's breaking point.

Today, BookPage contributing writer Alice Cary shares details of her talk with Beth Macy, author of Truevine, a compelling account of two African - American brothers who were kidnapped by a circus promoter and displayed as sideshow freaks for decades.

Fontaine, who also eats fire and charms snakes, among other sideshow feats, spent the 2013 season performing with the last American traveling circus sideshow, the World of Wonders.

Some of the sideshow people in the old days were quite handsome / beautiful, but that was never exploited by the circus owners.

Faith eventually turns to violence for retribution, forcing her to flee home in search of the only friend she has — a troubled but caring busboy who is the lover of a sideshow performer — and to tumble into the colorful, transient world of the circus.

As the name implies, sideshows are smaller acts that are part of a larger fair or circus.

But there were no bonfires or circus sideshows; there was no music — these were not the migrant people I'd seen on the outskirts of the northern villages.

The PC version of the Killing Floor 2 Summer Sideshow kicked off last week on Steam, introducing players to a new map set in a freaky scary circus filled with terrifying clown Zeds, and a host of other new content to unlock and play around with.

The mixed media works combine sideshow banners, circus gaudiness, misshapen human forms and animals, creating an alternate history designed to shine light on the abusive nature of these human zoos and the voyeuristic craze of the viewing public.