Sentences with phrase «scene with wit»

From the blockbusters to the best indie films you've never heard of (but should) and everything in between, KMR covers the film scene with wit, erudition, and a wicked sense of fun.

The thinking man's provocateur, Colescott challenged art history and reinterpreted American history, painting transgressive, racially and sexually charged scenes with wit, insight, and imagination.

Not exact matches

As a youngster he broke into London's literary scene seemingly out of nowhere, filled with wit, jokes and paradoxes.

With award - winning microbrews like Blood Orange Wit, Illusion IPA, and Quadrophenia, the local craft - brew scene is a fun diversion.

The secret is in the script, which balances spine - tingling scenes with ones that tickle the funny bone with quick - witted dialogue and a touch of melodrama.

McCarthy plays that kind of scene with enough style, confidence and wit to pitch the jokes past the straight men, and the film is an example of her doing what she does best.

This tiny Catholic school for women dominated the sport at a turning point in history, and this plucky, old - fashioned sports drama sets the scene and tells the tale with a lot of heart and a dash of wit.

The year's most divided movie to date; everything that happens in the higher realms, vaguely derived from Nordic legend, is posturing nonsense, whereas the scenes down here are managed, for the most part, with dexterity and wit.

Recruited by an old chum (Peter Boyle) to help find an exotic prostitute missing in Chinatown, Hammett enlists his implausibly gorgeous neighbor (Marilu Henner) to play Girl Friday as he matches wits with colorful actors including Jack Nance («Eraserhead» and other David Lynch works), David Patrick Kelly (whose strangled voice is an interesting counterpart to his iconic «Come out to play - yi - yay» taunt from «The Warriors»), Roy Kinnear and a few old - timers from film noir's heyday (the scene with Sylvia Sidney is especially good).

With virtually the same blend of wit and idiocy as the 2001 original, this fashion - scene comedy is funny enough to spark some solid laughter in between the gags that fall flat.

The result is a satisfyingly upbeat romp that allows it's titular hero to be fun, his supporting players engaging rather than delegating Tom Hiddleston's Loki to be the scene stealer with the others as background drapery, and laugh out loud wit that never is prioritized over sheer spectacle.

The Cabin In The Woods begins as a conventional horror movie then transforms into a genre - bending, mind - blowing experience that cleverly mixes screams with pop - culture wit as the scared teens are revealed to be watched by a group of technicians that control their every move behind the scenes.

The scenes with Natalie and Ryan are certainly best and parts of the film without Natalie desperately lack her acerbic wit.

I loved all of the scenes with Orser (which is most of them)-- particularly when he feels most at wits» end — and he and Winstead have a great on - screen chemistry.

There are two featurettes going behind - the - scenes including «The Birth of The Red Turtle» and «The Secrets of The Red Turtle» as well as a AFI Fest Q&A with Director Michael Dudok de Wit.

Mickey Sumner — who only appears in a few scenes at the beginning and end — makes the conflicted, angry Sophie into a vibrant character, a drop - dead bitchy wit who we, like Frances, wish we could spend more time with.

Directed by Rob Marshall, it's filled with eye - popping battle scenes, mystery and all - out wit.

And make no mistake: The Exorcist is most definitely a horror film: though it may be filled with rigorously examined ideas and wonderfully observed character moments, its primary concern is with shocking, scaring and, yes, horrifying its audience out of their wits — does mainstream cinema contain a more upsetting image than the crucifix scene?

It doesn't stay that way for long and we're treated to a scene full of thought provoking insight delivered with razor sharp wit.

Opening up the theatrical battle of wits with measured restraint to show the behind - the - scenes manoeuvring, director Ron Howard (Hollywood's definitive «safe pair of hands») invests everything in the strength of his practised leads, Michael Sheen and Frank Langella.

While one key scene attempts dark comedy with mixed results, thereâ $ ™ s more jaunty wit in the scenes with pupil Kenny (Nicholas Hoult, dripping sexuality as heâ $ ™ s caught in the cameraâ $ ™ s lustful gaze).

Special features on THE RED TURTLE include two fascinating behind - the - scenes featurettes and an AFI Fest Q&A with director Michael Dudok de Wit.

This is the second film in recent memory to take an unlikely source and modernize it for today's audience, but unlike I Think I Love My Wife, this Steve Carr (Rebound, Daddy Day Care) update removes all of the wit and cleverness of the original, then beefs it up with stupid sight gags, terrible characterizations, and a plethora of scenes of «fall on your ass» slapstick that was already old back when the original film was released in 1948.

As a friend prone to making hurtful remarks and with a weird penchant for pseudo-spirituality, Wilson's trademark wit makes his scenes with Harrelson a highlight.

This kind of change is also experienced to various degrees by the characters of Maria Bello (just compare the early, naughty but good - spirited sex scene to the angry fucking she engages in later) and Ashton Holmes (who goes from defusing bully situations with wit and words to going all Spider - Man on the Flash Thompsons).

Every line sparkles with wit and insight, every scene fits into a beautiful whole, and there isn't a single character in it who wouldn't furnish an interesting movie of their own.

Bonnie Hunt is good and delivers her lines with her trademark dry wit, but why do her t - shirts seem to get tighter in every scene?.

This behind - the - scenes glimpse into Atwood's inspiration for the series mixes her famous wit with a earnest exploration of the increasingly blurry line between speculative fiction and fact.

Every page is loaded with wit, wry criticism of society (both American and Russian), and the book gives a lot of insight into the burgeoning post-Soviet collapse crime scene, the status of immigrants in America and the strange underworld of American Russophile young people in the former Soviet Union.

The scenes portrayed with wit and cleverly concise absurdity are less the result of a voyeuristic perspective than an attention to self - representations, roles, fantasies, and desires in everyday life, and which naturally includes the (visual) relationship between man and woman.

ALEX DUDOK DE WIT Visits Host City Glasgow Where the Arts Scene Is Flourishing Sunday Sun - Newcastle - upon - Tyne; November 15, 2015; Alex Dudok De Wit; 700 + words «SPOT the artwork,» says my guide, her finger picking out an overlooked alley on the fringes of Glasgow's Merchant City.I hesitate: surely she doesn't mean the graffitied portrait of the Rasta smoking a joint or the small mound of bricks topped with a fraying bin bWIT Visits Host City Glasgow Where the Arts Scene Is Flourishing Sunday Sun - Newcastle - upon - Tyne; November 15, 2015; Alex Dudok De Wit; 700 + words «SPOT the artwork,» says my guide, her finger picking out an overlooked alley on the fringes of Glasgow's Merchant City.I hesitate: surely she doesn't mean the graffitied portrait of the Rasta smoking a joint or the small mound of bricks topped with a fraying bin bWit; 700 + words «SPOT the artwork,» says my guide, her finger picking out an overlooked alley on the fringes of Glasgow's Merchant City.I hesitate: surely she doesn't mean the graffitied portrait of the Rasta smoking a joint or the small mound of bricks topped with a fraying bin bag?

ALEX DUDOK DE WIT Visits Host City Glasgow Where the Arts Scene Is Flourishing Sunday Sun - Newcastle - upon - Tyne; November 15, 2015; Alex Dudok De Wit; 700 + words... cultural wasteland.The arrival of the Turner Prize, that great promoter of artistic talent... artists, including four of the last ten Turner Prize winners.Pride in their city is palpable... expansion are crowned by hosting the Turner Prize in a rare year with no Glaswegian nomineesWIT Visits Host City Glasgow Where the Arts Scene Is Flourishing Sunday Sun - Newcastle - upon - Tyne; November 15, 2015; Alex Dudok De Wit; 700 + words... cultural wasteland.The arrival of the Turner Prize, that great promoter of artistic talent... artists, including four of the last ten Turner Prize winners.Pride in their city is palpable... expansion are crowned by hosting the Turner Prize in a rare year with no Glaswegian nomineesWit; 700 + words... cultural wasteland.The arrival of the Turner Prize, that great promoter of artistic talent... artists, including four of the last ten Turner Prize winners.Pride in their city is palpable... expansion are crowned by hosting the Turner Prize in a rare year with no Glaswegian nominees...

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