Sentences with phrase «parody while»

One is its capacity for what might be called beautiful sarcasm, a sly self - parody while still looking good that is cultivated by many young painters today.»

One is its capacity for what might be called beautiful sarcasm, a sly self - parody while still looking good that is cultivated by many young painters... read more... «NYT art reviews: Markus Lüpertz & Martin Kippenberger»

Set to a fast - paced dance track, the work functions as both a critique and parody while raising the question - what if all is not as it seems?

Bankers invited by Guardian to watch film find it to be a parody while women among them say sector's macho culture persists

The ensemble lets «Hall Pass» keep its balance, preventing the production from veering wildly toward obvious parody while partially suppressing the material's malignant heart.

Riding high off their decade defining TV series SPACED (1999), this gang of Brits translated their genius to the big screen and gave the world one of the all time great Zombie parodies while at the same time (like HOT FUZZ) carving out it's own top - spot within the genre it loves!

What follows is an odd tale, though it does rely on several stereotypes common to anime and manga, some parodied while others are taken straight.

Not exact matches

While «The Daily Show» skewered nightly television news and «The Colbert Report» directly parodied the «O'Reilly Factor» in the same medium and format as the show, the universe of the media on the far right online isn't as coherent or visible, and the mediums for activism are ever - changing.

(FINANCE) This goofy parody showcases why traditional currencies are mocked while cryptocurrency solves some inherent problems with finance.

Urizen is a peculiarly Blakean creation, and while he may initially have been little more than a parody of the Christian God, he gradually but surely brings to expression much of the fullness of Blake's pathos.

Unlike Samuel Beckett or Jorge Luis Borges, who provide a modernist critique of dialectical hubris by parodying the infinite regress of its logic while never going beyond that logic themselves, Solzhenitsyn claims to have learned how to move beyond the absurdities born of an unbridled rationalism, since he, and the rest of his fellow zeks (prisoners), have suffered dialectic's most extreme miscalculation.

The main characters remain sympathetic even while being parodied, and despite working on behalf of a totalitarian regime.

But again and again you parody the «bad guys», while at the same time you use almost the same vision - casting methods.)

The linguistic and biblicist vetos have been seen to be both arbitrary and unwarranted — which makes it all the more pathetic that Dr Paul van Buren in The Secular Meaning of the Gospel still seems to accept them as valid and to rule out «God - statements» as «meaningless» while at the same time his excessive Barthian christocentrism and bibliocentrism turns the patent intention of scriptural statement into a parody of their proper meaning.

While being linked to the Mississippi State job earlier this coaching cycle, a chef with the same name got swept up in a social media commotion set off by a parody account, showing that even when the SEC does a normal hire, it can turn weird.

Chants rang out insulting the former Manchester United and Juventus left - back, while one banner carried the slogan «This Game is Over» in English, parodying Evra's favorite slogan of «I love this game».

For instance, while the real site's splash screen asks people to «Sign up and be the first to receive updates from Jane Corwin» because «Together we can build a bright future that is lit with prosperity and opportunity,» the parody version informs us that «Together we can make delicious soup from the bones of the poor» and invites the reader to «Sign up now to be served by Jane Corwin,» asking for both blood type and taste.

Earlier this weekend Eli Pariser linked to one of the funniest damn things I've seen in a while: a brilliant parody of erstwhile Republican Congressmember Jane Corwin's campaign website.

The character of Barry (a Muslim convert) elegantly parodies the narrow - mindedness and hypocrisy of fundamentalist thought, while being the most «militant» of all the characters.

Los Angeles, CA About Blog The Pond Scum Blog is a Political Satire blog that uses parody and humor to thwart injustice and corruption - while offering fix - it solutions to problems.

While it isn't a Horror - Horror but more accurately a parody of a Horror that knows what it is and plays with that as much as it can.

«Tummy Trouble», «Rollercoaster Rabbit», and «Trail Mix - Up» are all included here, but while the opening of Who Framed Roger Rabbit functions as both wild cartoon slapstick and hyperbolic parody of same (as well as something of a precursor to the even more satiric Itchy and Scratchy of The Simpsons), the subsequent shorts, beyond lacking the deft, fluid touch of the movie's animation director Richard Williams, are less clever: orchestrations of mayhem that occasionally pause to wink at themselves.

While still packing it's share of jokes and parodies (like the lingering, drawn - out, protracted death scene of the king), the script's pacing lacks the kind of sparkle and snap audiences have come to expect from the crabby swamp dweller and his tag - a-longs.

While most parody spy films have the bumbling lead given understanding, OSS is shot at, kidnapped, and shown no mercy, even in the face of his romantic lead, portrayed by the gorgeous Berenice Bejo.

It may not rise to the level of such a classic, but tonally it's reminiscent of Young Frankenstein, a work that at once parodied the Shelley story in broad comic terms while also being supremely in awe of the James Whale film, right down to using original set pieces and compositions to mirror without any form of irony the source material.

Even though technically he's not the greatest director ever (a fact which has been harped on ad nauseam by Smith's non-fans, hereafter known as The Pack), his writing consistently brings out delightful characters who sometimes skirt the edges of parody and sometimes dive head - first into it, yet still retain an indelible realness even while engaging in the sort of breathlessly verbose and witty conversations us real people wish we could have, but can't.

They're a classic odd couple: Stiller the neurotic, uptight Jewish guy, Wilson the impossibly laidback WASP, but as «Zoolander» and cop parody «Starsky & Hutch» demonstrated, their personas could stretch to far more than just that, even while they always prove perfectly complementary.

For while The Incredible Burt Wonderstone has its moments, two thoughts interrupted my viewing enjoyment: one, the big - blown magic shows on the Strip are surely beyond parody; and two, if they are going to send them up, the makers of The Incredible Burt Wonderstone could have done it so much better.

It's an over-the-top hack and slash game that parodies other games like it, while remaining as good a game as its competitors (games like Devil May Cry and God of War).

While a lot of big - name directors wiped out this year, a few filmmakers risked self - parody with projects that indulged their personal tics and obsessions with unapologetic thoroughness; the results were strange, kind of wonderful exercises in playing to a dwindling cult on their studios» dime.

Where Austin Powers poked fun at the James Bond movies» familiar tropes and old - fashioned misogyny by imitating them to exaggerated levels, Spy's female focus allows for a different and more knowing kind of parody, while also giving McCarthy her most nuanced role to date.

Made short films while in medical school, including parody Violence in the Cinema: Part 1, which premiered at the 1971 Sydney Film Festival.

In truth, the film, centered around an elaborate butter - carving competition, is an admirable attempt at parody, but while it offers a lot by way of...

A Hong Kong chase sequence goofily parodies the recent trend seen in films like Casino Royale and The Bourne Ultimatum of utilizing parkour is action scenes, while a hilarious nod to corporate sponsorship and movie product placement sees the British Intelligence Service rechristened as the Toshiba British Intelligence Service.

While the trio's Oscars are smugly displayed at the start of the piece and Eastwood and Swank never do lose their shit - eating grins, it's Lipton's oft - parodied technique of verbal fellatio that finally makes the piece as squirm - inducing as it is.

While it isn't the first of its kind, it feels like it could be: So deeply does it understand the world it parodies, Spinal Tap knows that a mockumentary is best a biopic of people who never existed, taking the personalities that define this starfucking realm and then, ever so slightly, ever so lovingly, cranking them to 11.

I first realized this while viewing Blue Harvest and the other Family Guy parodies of the Star Wars movies.

Director David Gordon Green leaves the indie world for this studio film and excels in making a very vulgar comedy full of stylish montages and exciting chases — while Rogen and co-writer Evan Goldberg (also co-writer of This Is the End) construct a movie with a stupidly simple enough premise to knock off a slew of action cliche parodies, but also allow for a lot of improvisation along the way.

A purported Blue Velvet parody concentrates on the very idea of David Lynch's career as one great big indiscernible mindfuck (making detours through Dune, The Elephant Man, and «Twin Peaks»), while a goof on Dogville focuses almost exclusively on that film's chalk - outline backdrop.

You'll come across many parodies and references to TV shows, games and movies — and while many of these are very dated (there hasn't been a Dirty Harry movie since 1988!)

An Invasion of the Body Snatchers parody feels just about right, capturing paranoia and fears of conformity while indulging in the kind of puckish mischief suited to doughy protagonists running for their lives.

While on the publicity tour for Deadpool 2, the film's co-star Ryan Reynolds and Josh Brolin stopped by The Late Late Show with James Corden to have some fun with a a parody of the classic western The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

But the pirate movie has always skated on the edge of self - parody — go watch Errol Flynn and Douglas Fairbanks if you don't believe me — while the western genre has underpinnings of seriousness, even in comedies and B movies, that befit a national myth.

And while it's not a full - blown parody like I was hoping, what is there is still pretty good.

While searching the depths of darkness, we came across this very cool animated Halloween Michael Myers musical parody, which also featuring Laurie Strode.

All these parallels remarkably do not hinder Sky High, which really plays its setting for laughs while avoiding parody almost altogether.

Indeed, not only is this movie a wonderful parody of all hero - quest stories, it is also an extremely sharp satire of contemporary popular culture, all the while being a super-enjoyable traditional three - act narrative with a cathartic climax and happy end.

It's a parody of buddy cop movies with Ferrell and Wahlberg playing a pair of New York police detectives, one of whom prefers to play it safe and fill out paperwork all day, while the other yearns to be out on the street in the middle of the action.

While many comedy actors can do a pratfall or smear bodily fluids on their face for a laugh, Leslie Nielsen possesses an enriched talent that's really too good for many of the cheaper parodies he's been a part of.

«These references and parodies helped us strengthen the identity of the world, while at the same time [injecting] a bit of humor into an otherwise uncharacteristically dark and serious environment for a Rayman game,» McEntee explained.