Sentences with phrase «ridiculous story work»

Another high concept comedy (seeing a trend) sees the White House struggle to replace an incapacitated President with a look alike and Kevin Kline somehow makes the ridiculous story work.

Not exact matches

When the dance is finally beat, Robert Baker... or Alabama, there's something endearing enough about the pretty points in cinematography and score work, touching occasions in entertainingly well - paced direction, interesting spots in a colorful story, and across - the - board decent performances - especially the one by Evan Rachel Wood - for the final product to border on decent, ultimately falling under the overwhelming weight of the glaring tonal and narrative incoherencies, flat humor, dramatic contrivances, problematic themes, even more problematic leads, ridiculous story and onslaught of clichés which render Andrew Fleming's «Barefoot» an occasionally charming, but mostly mediocrely misguided romantic dramedy.

He may have heard some horror stories about the process he sells to people eager to make a ridiculous profit for doing nothing; if he has, he never questioned the rightness of his work, let alone the business practices of the company for which he works.

Stories feature Crop circles and alien visitors Plasticized museum bodies A dead baby and a guest appearance from the protagonist of Mail Insect hunting with a ridiculous American exchange student who dresses like a stripper A ghost village A mummification service Working as professional mourners A -LSB-...]

Nodjoumi's works are conceived of as theatrical stages, where compositions of figures both serious and ridiculous, in the words of Phong Bui, «house meanings without irony, narratives without stories, humor without morality, above all creating a space that heightens the awareness of old and new history.»

Later works include exuberantly satirical works of the 1960s, many featuring the vaguely autobiographical figure described by critic and artist Anne Doran as a «nattily dressed and deeply ridiculous Everyman in mad pursuit of liberty, poetry, and sex»; the pornography - inspired «X-Rated Paintings» of the early 1970s; the «Noun» paintings of the same period (each depicting a single everyday object against a bright, patterned background); the schematic, figurative canvases made in homage to Copley's Surrealist idol Francis Picabia; and the story cycles and morality tales from the 1980s and 90s, including a painting from the installation project The Tomb of the Unknown Whore.