Sentences with phrase «shaggy dog story»

There's a great shaggy dog story at the heart of Argo and it's a pity it couldn't be rescued from of all the sort - of, kind - of, inspired - by conventional trappings.

It's as much a snapshot of a screwball neighborhood as it is a loose - ended shaggy dog story, with a weird, buoyant spirit that lifts it up over its somewhat sloppy storytelling.

While it ultimately doesn't amount to more than an amusing shaggy dog story, Jesus» Son is simply two hours in the life of a F*ck head, with an eye for details and nuance that reveals the underlying humor beneath the lives of the sad, the tattered, the broken and the pathetic.

There is something disquietingly satisfying about watching despicable characters whose sentimental streaks make them prey for one another in an orgy of what may or may not be either cosmic payback or the best shaggy dog story this year.

Road movie, rumination of the meaning of life and death, shaggy dog story about dealing with a corpse, manual on the best in yoghurt, depiction of the transgressions which break families apart, with its mystical encounters, breath - taking landscape and self - declared Clark Gable lookalike - Once Upon a Time in Anatolia is packed with elements that ought to overshadow one another or, at least, confuse.

So Coherence is the most convoluted shaggy dog story you'll have heard in quite some time — a shaggy Schrodinger's cat.

Wes Anderson's feature debut, an affectionate shaggy dog story of middle class kids who plan an elaborate heist of a small bookstore with the help of the local «criminal mastermind» (James Caan), also marks the debut of actors Owen Wilson (who co-wrote the film with Anderson) and Luke Wilson.

It's not a legal thriller so much as a long, comic, intricate shaggy dog story, the story of a man's whole life, which just happens to wrap itself around and around questions of the law.

Giles Milton marks his fiction debut with an olfactory shaggy dog story that meanders happily through three hundred years of history and ten generations of Trencom males, who are linked by an uncommonly distinguished and sensitive nose, a love of cheese, and a habit of dying early from unnatural causes.

The visitor soon discovers — maybe when seeing a coral - encrusted bronze self - portrait of the artist as a collector holding Mickey Mouse by the hand — that the shipwreck is an elaborate shaggy dog story.

After a long shaggy dog story involving a car accident, sleepless nights, and Michael Bay, it turns out the car made it to LeEco's grand event.

for all its free - associative riffing on ideas, this is no shaggy dog story, but a carefully constructed cinematic poem on the subject of love and loss.

Like all shaggy dog stories, the punch line matters much less than the journey to it.

Four — count»em, four — shaggy dog stories: Unlike last year's Midnight in Paris, this year's Woody Allen movie is what used to be called a portmanteau film.

The whole enterprise is a shaggy dog story, and in a way, it is all secrets.

Find out in this shaggy dog story for kids aged 6 to 13.

With its disarming sentimentality, his latest piece of tomfoolery, Shaggy Dog Stories, lures us into a world gone awry.

Joanne Tatham & Tom O'Sullivan will present a solo performance based on a monologue that takes the form of a shaggy dog story; a long rambling tale that to some extent follows the conventions of a narrative joke.

Reid's shaggy dog story, hardly a substitute for serious research, was typical of the Conservatives» approach on Thursday.