Sentences with phrase «of early comics»

But the raucous variety of early comics is much more complex.

Largely eschewing the baroque dialogue of the early comics — and the high camp that went with it — Derrickson and his co-writers embrace the blithe banter of other Marvel films.

While the ingredients are all in place for a weird creation myth worthy of the character's unusual history, the narrative becomes pedestrian and vanilla in comparison to the frames of early comics that often fill the screen.

Not exact matches

A press release elaborated on its plot: «The comic depicts early events in Colonel Sanders» life that eventually led to the discovery of his real super power: the combination of a pressure cooker and secret blend of 11 herbs and spices, better known as his world - famous Original Recipe Chicken.»

Either / Or emerges as the most fertile and delightful of Kierkegaard's literary achievements in this regard, though almost all the early books abound in comic invention.

The earlier comic twist is twisted again when Angelica and Ranaldo drink from (respectively) Merlin's well and the Stream of Love, and so exchange the spells under which they labor.

Their pietism, which I confused with Lutheranism, early made me restive, not least because of my precocious reading of Britannica articles on evolution and Gibbon's Decline and Fall (my father's library was short on comic books).

Yours truly reported earlier that the voices of Islam's Western critics caused the most problems for controversial comic.

Largely absent from The Thanatos Syndrome is the redemptive humor of Percy's early work, in which he discerns that his own satirists need satirizing, that the gospel is not a divine stone flung angrily at the world, and that faith is God's comic gift rather than our own stern decision.

Earlier he was spotted eating some red apples while reading a superman comic instead of his usual batman.

Earlier, he was quite happy with the dustup of Heins and Gallo vs Cahill and again, no information... what is basically a comic strip is now a «chapter book»... People, you got ta drop the fun and games cheering peanut gallery and insist on good journalism that gives you a clue about what's going on in your government.

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No, I didn't really delve into all the books like I had earlier in the decade, but I certainly became much more interested in Bats himself and I picked up quite a few comic anthologies to get me back into the swing of things.

An early sequence, of a dinner party gone awry, is a little comic masterpiece; the great Melanie Lynskey shows up in jewels, a party dress, and a tiara («It's everything I never wore!»)

Once, in what seems like another lifetime, I was a comic book collector, and for about three years in the late»70s and early»80s, X-Men was one of the books I purchased religiously, dolling out a portion of my meager allowance to the guy behind the cash register at El Dorado Comics.

Like most great comics, he also decided fairly early that he wanted to be taken «seriously» as an actor, and so he traded in «Ace Ventura» and «Dumb and Dumber» for films like «The Majestic» and «Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.»

Pairing the young star with two comic actors 10 years his senior (Jack Black and Steve Zahn), Saving Silverman followed in early 2001; with it, Biggs completed a triumverate of critical and commercial failures.Finding himself in need of a comeback at the ripe old age of 23, Biggs seemed poised to do just that later in the year, beginning with his reprisal of the bumbling post-adolescent Jim in American Pie 2.

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.

He studied art and cinema as a young adult, often spending a considerable amount of time on his father's movie sets, and honed his skills in his early twenties not in the arena of directing (as might be expected), but in that of painting.Danny Huston's directorial assignments began inconspicuously, at the age of 24, with the 1987 made - for - television comic fantasies Bigfoot and Mr. Corbett's Ghost (the second of which featured John Huston in the cast).

The film skews young, to be sure, and it isn't as memorable as the new Disney classics of the early 1990s, but there's still plenty here to hold the interest of viewers of all ages: delightful performances (particularly by Dench, plowing Angela Lansbury terrain), zinging comic dialogue and a soundtrack that's a wealth of sonorous riches.

At its best, in its early, more subdued passages, Poor White Trash provides a couple of pristine comic moments.

The side characters remain terrific — my favorite joke in the premiere may be Laurie's utter bafflement at Monica complimenting her for the birth of her fourth child only hours earlier — and the show still has a gift for constructing comic set pieces like the black site - style office Richard tried to show the guys in the premiere's opening.

The greatness of Django Unchained, however, comes not from its nods to Corbucci and Leone, its prodigious reliance upon Ennio Morricone compositions, its deliciously evil villains, blood - spattered vengeance or comic inserts (though an early scene in which the newly freed Django picks an outfit to pose as Dr. King Schultz's valet is endearingly funny).

In a summer during the early - to - mid sixties, I surreptitiously acquired a copy of a specific issue of Playboy — not for the pictures, though those were nice, but for an essay on The Great Comic Book Heroes, by Jules Feiffer.

The first superhero of African descent in mainstream American comics, Black Panther debuted years before early black superheroes such as the Falcon (1969), John Stewart's Green Lantern (1971), Luke Cage (1972), and Blade (1973).

He's always been one of my favorite characters just because he's just so visually impressive and you know, when you're a comic book reader, the writing's important, but also you want these incredible looking characters and action and I always loved him from my early days collecting comics.

Early designs for Doomsday's look in Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice have revealed an alternate and more comic accurate depiction.

A coterie of «Twilight» stars showed up for the heavily - hyped press conference at Comic Con early this morning to dish on...

For Kojima, this sort of comic relief is important to balance the emotion, as he explained in an earlier interview with Edge.

Green's latest, «Prince Avalanche,» in theaters this weekend, seamlessly blends these two seemingly contradictory artistic instincts within the writer - director: It has the unhurried pace and richly naturalistic aesthetic of his early, indie dramas with the comic banter and oddball characters of his later work.

But cast your mind back to early 2008, when nobody apart from a few comic - collecting nerds had ever heard of» Iron Man» except in passing.

Mike Mignola's «Hellboy» was a favorite comic of mine for a short while, back when it first appeared in Dark Horse comics in the pages of John Byrne's «Next Men», back in early 1990s.

This entry ties in more with the comic book roots of the character, as the Nighstalkers are introduced, the team of vampire hunters of which Blade was a member in the comic book world of the early 1990s.

This writer was lucky enough to catch the film early at Comic - Con last month (read my glowing review here), and coming fresh off a double feature of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz at The Music Box Theatre in Chicago, I can't wait to see it again.

After debuting the new Doctor Strange trailer at its presentation at Comic - Con earlier this evening, Marvel Studios brought out Yondu and his team of Ravagers to introduce / make fun of the cast of Guardians Of The Galaxy Voof Ravagers to introduce / make fun of the cast of Guardians Of The Galaxy Voof the cast of Guardians Of The Galaxy Voof Guardians Of The Galaxy VoOf The Galaxy Vol.

Speaking to IG earlier this year (February 6), Reynolds said: «I never want to play another comic book character again; Deadpool, I would like to play for the rest of my life — that'd be fun.»

In his feature directing debut, Daniel Petrie Jr gets maximum mileage out of the derring - do of the final reels while emphasizing comic relief earlier on.

Some Marvel movies, particularly early on, feel like they were constructed by Marvel Studios going down a list of important bullet points from the comics rather than being a personal work directed by an actual human, but the company does seem good at recognizing the benefit of allowing a filmmaker to put their stamp...

(The name is a tip of Lee's cap to Mantan Moreland, a talented African - American comic of the early sound era best known for his popeyed performances as a terrified «darkie» in numerous Charlie Chan movies.)

Crossbones (Frank Grillo), one of the franchise's few double - dyed bastards, gets an early look - in but is benched in favour of Zemo (Daniel Brühl)-- who's a typical MCU baddie in that he's more grounded than his comic - book equivalent but considerably less interesting.

Steven Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) was an affectionate return and tribute to the early days of Saturday morning matinees and cinema, with comic - book archaeology hero Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) battling the Nazis while searching for the sacred Ark of the Covenant - the first in a very successful trilogy of films.

The current comic book - based TV show landscape is set to add one more show early next year, with «Marvel's Agent Carter» scheduled to debut on ABC for an eight - episode run during a «Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.» midseason hiatus.

Actor in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series Ty Burrell («Boondoggle») Alan Tudyk («Comic Man») Kim Estes («Dicks») Ben Schwartz («The Earliest Show») Jason Ritter («Tales of Titans») John Michael Higgins («Tween Fest»)

Andrew Garfield showed up in costume at Comic - Con — click here if you missed Sarah's recap earlier today — and then flew straight to the South of France to see his girlfriend Emma Stone where she's working on Woody Allen's new movie with Colin Firth.

Spider - Man is a fun movie, much in the spirit of the comic book's early days, that amazingly is able to give Spider - Man's origin, as well as that of the Green Goblin, while also introducing many characters like J. Jonah Jameson, Mary Jane, Aunt May, Uncle Ben, and Harry Osborn, enough to seem familiar, and then set up the exciting showdown all in the span of a modest two hours.

Leaked footage from a cancelled Sin City game shows early stages of development of the dark noir comic book adaptation that could have been.

The advanced techniques of the Hong Kong action cinema translated from the period kung fu and wuxia film to the modern world of cops and robbers, from swordplay to gunplay, not for the first time (it was preceded into the present by Jackie Chan's Police Story from the previous year, as well as Cinema City's highly profitable Aces Go Places series of comic adventures and a whole host of films from the Hong Kong New Wave like Tsui Hark's own Dangerous Encounters - First Kind, not to mention earlier films like Chang Cheh's Ti Lung - starring Dead End, from 1969), but better than anything before it.

Early viewers claim the original's inventive streak is missing and that the comic stylings of a pair of ghost hunters (Whannel and Angus Sampson) dissipate any tension the film manages to build.

«Merc with a Mouth» fans who didn't manage to reserve a spot in Hall H earlier this year at Comic - Con have been waiting for the day when they could see a non-bootlegged version of the Ryan Reynolds - led Deadpool trailer.

The conversation included the existential nature of the film, the Amish, the cinema of the early 1970s, as well as the unexpected dramatic turns taken by the film's traditionally comic stars: Owen Wilson, Zach Galifianakis, and Amy Poehler.