Sentences with phrase «of knockabout»

If fills you with the same sense of knockabout freedom and possibility that is manifested repeatedly in the Sigmar Polke retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art (and repeatedly denied in the suffocating Jeff Koons retrospective at the Whitney).

Director Alfredo De Villa doesn't play it for the kind of knockabout comedy so often seen in these films (like the shrill hit «Four Christmases»).

Not exact matches

Like all debates they have a certain unsatisfactory, knockabout air which does not lend itself to a sincere dialogue in search of truth.

The England international — along with fellow Liverpool stars Nathaniel Clyne and Adam Lallana, have taken part in an impromptu knockabout during the Merseysiders» pre-season tour of Australia.

In common with agrowing number of older voters, what young people don't care about is the sort of politics that you and I rather like - the knockabout, the earnest discussions, the thrill of electoral organisation and campaigning.

These get in the way of a good knockabout, after all.

In a particularly subdued edition of our weekly political knockabout, PMQs, neither Punch nor Judy were anywhere to be seen as Ed Miliband and David Cameron politely chatted about the floods.

Of the big speakers, former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson delivered the kind of speech that I could imagine Ken Clarke or Michael Heseltine giving, using wit and knockabout humour to drive home his serious message: McCain is a man of honour who will always put the country first; Obama lacks experience and stands for higher taxes and big governmenOf the big speakers, former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson delivered the kind of speech that I could imagine Ken Clarke or Michael Heseltine giving, using wit and knockabout humour to drive home his serious message: McCain is a man of honour who will always put the country first; Obama lacks experience and stands for higher taxes and big governmenof speech that I could imagine Ken Clarke or Michael Heseltine giving, using wit and knockabout humour to drive home his serious message: McCain is a man of honour who will always put the country first; Obama lacks experience and stands for higher taxes and big governmenof honour who will always put the country first; Obama lacks experience and stands for higher taxes and big government.

There may be questions about why each side chose the position it chose, but whichever side of the debate you fall on: This is not the usual PMQ knockabout.

Skyfall is not without its weak spots — Bardem's master plan is ultimately a bit blunt and unartful, the script is not terribly good to women (wish they'd get rid of that old Bond trope for good), Whishaw and Craig regrettably don't kiss — but, all cards on the table, it's still a knockabout success.

It was directed by the team of John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, who were co-writers on «Horrible Bosses» (2011) and «Spider - Man: Homecoming» (2017), and there's an echo of the former film's knockabout misanthropy in their rollicking staging.

Even though the script might let her down, Schumer does still manage to sell a smattering of the comic moments (the opening scene has a promising knockabout tone), but when she reaches the more dramatic elements, she struggles to convince.

It's a long way from Orwell's dark, intelligent warning cry [1984] to the empty stud knockabout of Equilibrium, and what once was conviction is now affectation.

Far more clever and witty than the knockabout silliness promised by the coming attractions, this is a film that is more interested in character comedy than slapstick and gives Melissa McCarthy the most appealing role of her career and allows Jason Statham to deliver one of the most unexpectedly hilarious comedic turns in recent memory.

The most cerebral of actresses even in her comic roles (think Devil Wears Prada), Streep makes her debut as a knockabout physical comic.

The laughable script, naive direction and iffy effects also echo the TV show, but somehow the likable cast, knockabout charm and sense of humour win through.

With the possible exception of his appearance as «Frostee Cream Boy» in Sling Blade, Jim Jarmusch's most memorable moment as an actor came in Wayne Wang and Paul Auster's knockabout character-fest Blue In The Face.

One of their more knockabout projects, following the deadpan Inside Llewyn Davis, this one's a classic - era Hollywood kidnap caper.

But I can confidently report that it's another mammoth achievement for Anderson, who shot the film in 65 mm — not for the sake of spectacle (it doesn't have anything like the grand vistas of Marfa, Texas in There Will Be Blood), but for the intensely intimate relationship that develops between a knockabout WWII veteran (Joaquin Phoenix) and the charismatic religious visionary (Philip Seymour Hoffman) who offers him a way forward.

Behind the façade of easy living and knockabout camaraderie is a bleak portrait of the mental and emotional scars left on a generation of men broken the meat grinder of the first modern industrial war.

It's also assiduously funny, not only in knockabout subversive dialogue but in subtle details: Shirley Henderson plays a lickspittle office bunny who copies her boss Lucy Mirando's way of sitting knock - kneed.

If these scenes set themselves a lower bar than the unassumingly deft character work of the main story, with its lively attention to adolescent anxieties, «Superbad» at its best goes right through knockabout to land in deliciously obscene places — notably a staggering succession of doodles in which tumescent cocks take on various extraordinary guises.

The pleasures are mostly to do with the rambunctious, knockabout antics of the two improvising male leads as they variously flirt and threaten their way through the immoral maze of the case.

Baird's direction is of a similarly heedless, knockabout nature, filching from other filmmakers with magpie abandon: Kubrick in the sweaty, distortive use of closeup, Fassbinder in an arch, unexpectedly resolved strain of Germanic camp, and Gilliam in Robertson's fantasy sessions with swollen - headed shrink Jim Broadbent — perhaps the film's least successful flight of fancy.

You get the picture, but though The Seagull has its moments of quietly knockabout farce, mostly the movie inclines intimately, subtly, to the sadness of the incomplete life.

But there's something amiss at the heart of this movie: Mavis, for all her knockabout manias, is intended to be a sympathetic soul, and the film itself is essentially framed as a comedy.

The fighters» knockabout lives are all of a piece inside and outside the ring.

July 28, 2014 • Equal parts rowdy and loving, the husband - and - wife duo of Michael Trent and Cary Ann Hearst radiates knockabout charm.

The actor, who is currently in Prestige Acting Mode for Sacha Gervasi's making - of - Psycho drama Hitchcock, is apparently happy to kick back and play a scheming baddie named Edward Bailey in the knockabout action comedy follow - up.

Most of the time the movie is a knockabout slapstick comedy with a «Back to the Future» feeling, staging grand action sequences and feeding audiences new plot information every few minutes, but of course, being a Pixar film, «Coco» is also building toward emotionally overwhelming moments, so stealthily that you may be surprised to find yourself wiping away a tear even though the studio has been using the sneak - attack playbook for decades.

Some of the top local titles span the gamut from one - man teams through tightly focused console indies, including Texas - honed games such as physics - heavy iPhone puzzler Enigmo, CosMind's evocative art - game Glum Buster, Red Fly Studios» Wii / DS quirky Mushroom Men duo, knockabout Guildhall @ SMU student title ToyBox Heroes, and user - generated game website Mockingbird.

Her paintings and sculptures may be knocked - about as well as knockabout, but there is a great deal of personal abjection in them.

In this work Graham plays two versions of himself, an urban dandy and a provincial rustic, two paired particles set for a repeated, cataclysmic encounter played out within the long cinematic tradition of the «knockabout» Also featured in the exhibition is a two part photographic work, Fishing on the Jetty, where the artist plays Cary Grant in Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief.

There was plenty of good knockabout copy in entries like Tracey Emin's tousled bedsheets and Martin Creed's lights going on and off.

It's only chocolate, you might say (like the marzipan turds in Pasolini's Salo), and the action may be so knockabout as to be unbelievable, but this is still a theatre of cruelty, in the Hollywood Jacobean mode.

In the weekly knockabout that is prime minister's question - time, the Labour opposition leader Ed Miliband pressed David Cameron to admit to this tendency at the heart of his own party.

Maybe I asked the wrong sort of lawyer as he, while being an accomplished practitioner in his field, is a knockabout criminal defence hack with little need for theory and sophisticated legal strategies.