Sentences with phrase «rollicking adventures»

Full of high and low comedy and rollicking adventures, this is part travel memoir, part autobiography, and pure, anarchic fun.

Morgan makes an uneasy alliance with Shaw and together they embark on a series of rollicking adventures on their way to CutThroat Island.

The rollicking adventure involves a culturally rich trip to the Land of the Dead, a young boy who wants to follow his dreams, and some catchy music along the way.

Three unique and distinctly opinionated hosts — culinary expert Gail Simmons; superstar chef Marcus Samuelsson; and comedian and food writer Max Silvestri — anchor a rollicking adventure into the world of cooking, food trends and food culture in America.

The mystery will lead our gnomes on a rollicking adventure where they will meet all new ornaments and explore an undiscovered side of the city.

Rob Cohen makes his first film since the awful Stealth, and reunites with his favourite composer Randy Edelman, who continues in the series which began so strong musically with Jerry Goldsmith's rollicking adventure score, before the considerably - inferior sequel which had its overbearing (but unbelievably popular) Alan Silvestri one.

Episode VII entertained the masses and surpassed high expectations by leaning heavily on original trilogy nostalgia and delivering a rollicking adventure.

Could this be a rollicking adventure, with plenty of yelling, swinging and fun?

(2014) dir Jalmari Helander w / Samuel L. Jackson, Onni Tommila, Ray Stevenson, Victor Garber, Felicity Huffman, Jim Broadbent, Mehmet Kurtulus [110 min; DCP] The latest from the director of the twisted Christmas cult classic Rare Exports, BIG GAME is a rollicking adventure in the vein of 1980s teen action movies.

Alden Ehrenreich ably apes Harrison Ford in this straightforwardly rollicking adventure, which betrays little trace of its troubled production

I knew he had picked an indie novel a while back, but Piers Alexander's The Bitter Trade is a rollicking adventure set in the 17th century.

Literary fiction covers an enormous range of styles and tone, from Peter Carey's rollicking adventure novels (True History of the Kelly Gang) to Kazuo Ishiguro's complex and evocative character studies (The Remains of the Day).

Teen governess Miss Penelope Lumley moves to a mansion in London with her feral charges, three wolflike children, in this rollicking adventure, expressively narrated by Kellgren, who changes tones, pitch, and inflections to match the characters.

This satirical novel about a honeymoon gone — well, wrong is the word, but add a few so, so, so's on there and you're closer to the truth — is her funniest work, and effortlessly blends satire, social commentary and rollicking adventure.

- Chris Guillebeau, author of The Art of Non-Conformity, and The $ 100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future «It's a rare book that inspires personal change and takes you on a rollicking adventure through history and into the minds of great thinkers.

A rollicking adventure graced by excellent narrators.

Set in the 1000s, the series follows a group of Danish Vikings in England, with Yukimura blending history and fiction for a rollicking adventure.

I'm going to publish my rollicking adventure - romance.

Pirate Latitudes is Michael Crichton at his best: a rollicking adventure tale pulsing with relentless action, crackling atmosphere, and heart - pounding suspense.

Pirate Latitudes is Michael Crichton at his best: a rollicking adventure tale pulsing with relentless action, crackling atmosphere, and heart - pounding suspense.

Not exact matches

I think Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol is the most consistently entertaining, most laser - focused entry in the series so far, and while I would argue that it is very much a sequel to the third film and not just a disconnected piece of a flexible franchise, it is also a great rollicking self - contained spy movie adventure on a grand scale, and it's preposterous fun.

Through rollicking, real - life adventure, humor, pathos and a few stylistic tics, the consistently amazing work of Sean Penn, Cast, and Crew keeps an ultimately meditative and remarkably powerful movie entertaining and engrossing throughout.

Their rollicking space adventure is reminiscent of the recent film, and exploring the neon - soaked space city of Knowhere makes for the most unique setting.

Built around a mysterious, ancient alien artifact that can transport people instantly between distant planets (that would be the titular Stargate), the flick dabbles in Egyptian mythology; but is mostly an excuse for a rollicking sci - fi adventure starring Kurt Russell and James Spader at their most fun.

Balancing adventure, horror, action and laughs, 1999's rollicking reboot of The Mummy is that rare thing: a real successor to Indiana Jones.Read More

When: May 22nd Why: Following in the footsteps of «Pirates of the Caribbean» and «The Haunted Mansion» by adapting a Walt Disney theme park property (in this case, the future - themed Tomorrowland) into a movie, director Brad Bird's new film looks like a rollicking sci - fi adventure... even if I'm still not entirely sure what it's about.

Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy are joined by Jason Segel and Amy Adams in this rollicking new adventure, in theaters November 23rd.

Simon Pegg brings the funny on script detail in this rollicking second sequel in the latest Trek adventure.

It's tempting to draw parallels to this creative team's previous adventure in summer movie amusement park tie - ins, and the corollaries to Pirates of the Carribbean are there, superficially: Bruckheimer and Verbinski at the helm, Johnny Depp in druggie drag, rollicking action set pieces.

The tone shifts wildly from rollicking comedic adventure, to straight - ahead action, to campy melodrama, to horror - tinged mystery, all at the drop of a hat.

He retained the main characters» names and the basic «bank heist» premise while updating the dialogue and overhauling plot to yield a rollicking, laff - a-minute adventure.

After two rollicking New York Times bestselling adventures through the Western literary canon, Britain's Prose - Op is literally and literaturally at her wits» end — not to mention pregnant.

York by Laura Ruby The New York City in Ruby's rollicking steampunk adventure is unlike anything you've ever dreamed: There are electro - magnetic elevators that can travel horizontally as well as vertically; people have genetically altered, hybrid pets like fox - dogs and fer - otters; and on nearly every corner, you can spot the lasting legacies of sibling geniuses Theresa and Theodore Morningstarr, the earliest architects of this NYC.

A full - throttle adventure through modern Europe and the Mediterranean that's part thriller, part mystery, and all rollicking ride.

Rising sixth - grader Mo LoBeau leads eccentric residents of Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, on a rollicking journey of mystery and adventure as she investigates a murder and searches for her long - lost mother.

With Star Tours» simulations, the rollicking Indiana Jones Adventure, and Disneyland's multiple mountain - themed coasters, the park is home to many of Disney's most exciting rides.

The game is a rollicking high - seas pirate adventure; it's also a weighty fantasy epic.

If it seems like I'm getting all emotional here, well... games like the enigmatic NiGHTS and the rollicking and ambitious Sonic Adventure 2 are why I love games in the first place, and it's my pleasure to re-introduce them to our old fans, and introduce them for the first time to new fans.