Sentences with phrase «series of sketches»

With tickets to the performance topping $ 300, attendance at the event has dwindled in recent years, and the event has been pared down from a three - hour, sit - down dinner to an hour - long series of sketches and musical numbers preceded by a cocktail reception.

Like the original, Super Troopers 2 is less interested in a tight comic story than in presenting a loose series of sketches for their irreverent, irresponsible cops to engage in — whether it's the return of Jim Gaffigan's «meow» guy or when the troops each take a separate drug from a stash of confiscated pharmaceuticals to see which one does what.

Below we have an exclusive series of sketches for Streep, Grant and supporting players Simon Helberg and Aida Garifullina.

Even on a third visit, I breezed through the long, glib series of sketches, copies, posters, and even business cards.

Shred includes the «Drawings I Did Around The Time I Became A Porn Star» — a sprawling autobiographical series of sketches recording Smith's days and nights working as «male talent» in the adult film industry in the city with an absorbing visual energy — along with recent paintings and drawings charged with the same intricate, delirious, shameless precision.

Jay Frye, IndyCar's president of competition and operations, has unveiled a series of sketches that show what the cars might look like in 2018.

His father is one of 15 prisoners taking part in a series of sketches, songs and poems, for the benefit of their wives and children.

The play details Sutch's highs and lows through a series of sketches inspired by inspired by British comedy greats.

Finley was in Albany when the scandal broke and afterward spent hours making a series of sketches of Spitzer's post-confession frowny face, concluding, according to City Room, that «the governor's head and mouth resembled, respectively, a phallus and a sexual orifice.»

The book concludes with a series of sketches of Starck's most recent projects and, fittingly, a surprise — photographs of a house that can be built from a kit, designed for the furnishings company Trois Suisses.

The film's first act embarrassingly reduces the book's study of class, race, masculinity, and American gun worship down to a series of sketches in which bad actors and misplaced celebrities utter amateurishly presentational dialogue.

In part, it's because the jokes aren't connected to each other and Phillips doesn't know how to structure them, so «The Hangover» plays more like a series of sketches than a movie.

Whether it's a self - portrait, a series of sketches, an artist who is continuously working over a painful loss, Honore's film betrays mixed emotions that may never be resolved as he carries the losses of that time with him forever.

Comedy Central has been able to take a can't - miss idea and move it from short online sketches to a series of sketches that fill a half hour of television with a unified theme and increased production value, while bringing the brilliant idea to a wider audience.

Sean Baker's The Florida Project unfolds at first like a series of sketches about the characters who live in a purple - painted, $ 35 - a-night motel called the Magic Castle down the street from Disney World.

The heightened self - awareness of all the talent involved results in big laughs, but it's a series of sketches loosely strung together.

On their search they find a series of sketches so badly executed they simply do not belong on the big screen, even for the YouTube generation.

Like the original show, much of it transpires in a series of sketches, and while not all of the scenes elicit laughs, there is always a funny bit lurking just a minute or two later, enough to keep the sporadic momentum dips from turning into full - scale lulls.

Ostensibly a recreation of the Follies of Broadway fame, and starring William Powell reprising his role as Ziegfeld from 1936's The Great Ziegfeld in a very thin frame device, this is really just a series of sketches and musical numbers with no connecting material whatsoever.

The male characters provide subplots that loosely (barely) tie in to the main plot, so the movie ends up feeling like a series of sketches rather than a fully conceptualized story.

Like the original, «T2» is more of a series of sketches — some comic, some poetic, some bleak — than it is a single cohesive story.

WHAT: A series of sketches starring DC Comics» stable of superheroes and villains — from flagship characters like Superman and Batman, to obscure D - listers like B'dg and Mister Banjo.

However, it makes the film feel more like a series of sketches rather than a complete story.

Tangerine director Sean Baker's The Florida Project unfolds at first like a series of sketches about the characters who live in a purple - painted, $ 35 - a-night motel called the Magic Castle down the street from Disney World.

Lest you think director Paul Feig and writers Wiig and Annie Mumolo, who has a cameo as a prescient airline passenger, have stinted on story and strung together a series of sketches, you'll be glad to hear there's a plot here as well that will bring to mind «My Best Friend's Wedding» and half a dozen Renee Zellweger films about ugly ducklings that long to be seen for their inner beauty.

The Florida Project unfolds at first like a series of sketches about the characters who live in the motel, held together by the hysterical antics of Moonee and her pack as well as long - suffering hotel manager Bobby (a splendid, warm Willem Dafoe), who tries to put up with it all while keeping some kind of order.

Another barnburner is Sean Baker's The Florida Project, which unfolds at first like a series of sketches about the characters who live in a purple - painted $ 35 - a-night motel called the «Magic Castle» down the street from Disney World.

10:15 am — TCM — Ziegfeld Follies Rather than go the biopic route to exploit Ziegfeld and their cast of thousands (oh, wait, they already did that with The Great Ziegfeld 10 years earlier), MGM instead modeled Ziegfeld Follies after an actual Ziegfeld show — it's basically just a series of sketches and musical sequences in revue format.

Okay, so writers Todd Phillips and Scot Armstrong have had to dream up a ridiculously contrived scenario in order to get things going, and the whole thing is really just an excuse to place four blokes in a series of sketch - like scrapes — but it really would be a miserable old world if we couldn't all appreciate such mindless giggles from time - to - time.

Originally set up at Overture Films, the yet - to - be-titled comedy project takes a unifying storyline for a series of sketch comedies in the vein of the 1970s hits Kentucky Fried Movie and Groove Tube.

The film is a series of sketches about the ways in which this corpse played by Daniel Radcliffe helps Paul Dano to survive and re-enter civilisation.

They have moved to the big screen with Keanu, which isn't a series of sketches but still, unfortunately, retains that same spirit.

Long stretches of this four - hour film simply observe a painter at work on a series of sketches in preparation for the completion of his long - abandoned masterpiece.

He was referring to the director's last, least narrative film, a series of sketches made nine years earlier.

WHAT: A series of sketches starring pop culture icons — from G.I. Joe and The Avengers, to He - Man and The Smurfs — as well as the show's own stable of original recurring characters.

Following an initial reveal in a series of sketches earlier this month, Audi has now provided Autoweek with detailed computer - enhanced photographs of its radical urban concepts — the compact two - seat city cars set to bow in September at the Frankfurt motor show.

Following an initial reveal in a series of sketches earlier this month, Audi has now provided Autoweek with detailed computer - enhanced photographs of its radical urban concepts — the compact two - seat...

Smart has revealed a series of sketches depicting a compact, zero - emissions pickup concept that will make its public debut at next month's Detroit auto show.

We got more of an idea of the final design thanks to a series of sketches released by Kia.

The production version of that concept was shown off in a series of sketches last fall, with VW dropping production - spec teaser images last week to whet the appetite of the public and press.

Smart has revealed a series of sketches depicting a compact, zero - emissions pickup concept that will make its public debut at next month's Detroit auto show.Called the Forus, a name chosen to indicate...

Opening at Lamb Arts on 23 November, the exhibition comprises an eclectic mix of archival and new photographs and a series of sketches and notebooks.

One etching of a litter of border terriers, for example, started as drawings and watercolors, while another series of sketches became a lithograph immortalizing the grackles that nest in Fleming's boxwood each year and devour her sunflower seeds.

A single flint might inspire a series of sketches, or else be incorporated into a maquette through the addition of plasticine.

The artists will all make a series of sketches of the CBD skyline to be shown at the new gallery...

Es gibt kein Leben ohne Liebe employs a series of sketches, photographs, and drawings — perforated for easy removal by readers — that explore the challenges to a relationship created by shuttling between two very different cultures.

A series of sketches and plans are presented on Royal Plaza Hotel paper and hung on the clothes line, tied to a moped scooter.