Sentences with phrase «sly jokes»

This exhibition of polaroid portraits of himself taken by artist friends - including Andy Warhol, Francis Bacon and Joseph Beuys - is a subversive exercise full of sly jokes about the nature of style.

House has in fact already entered the everyday visual currency that shapes the way we see the world, just as much as the famous Carl Andre bricks, or Boy George or Punk - all once the subject of horrified outrage, and all quickly co-opted into mainstream sensibility, to be recycled as knowing, sly jokes, to appear as the inspiration for the imagery of advertising, to be used as seasonings to the blandness of everyday life.

That's not a sly joke either; it sits at 98 % on RottenTomatoes and earned a lot of buzz back in 2015.

And once again, the 3D was severely underused and just a way to make more money (which could be a sly joke about the Christmas season itself, come to think of it.)

It's a sly joke that never gets old, greed and desire endowed with a huge tongue and sharp teeth.

In one, for instance, a Britney Spears - like figure sports wildly disheveled hair but wears nothing but a sheet held up by a clothespin, shades, and — in a sly joke — a Supreme baseball cap beneath another hat.

A sly joke or a serious statement about modern art?

Not exact matches

It's so sly and wicked and filled with inside jokes for us English Lit nerds.

Sly... are you joking or are you really that stupid.

The jokes are organic to the movie, to its sly and slightly caustic worldview, and they don't stop coming, from start to finish.

Throw in Neil Patrick Harris — once again playing the Bizarro World version of himself — shattered and reinforced redneck stereotypes and a delightful take on Dubya [here, he may not speak real good English, but he's slyer, smarter and mellower than we are expecting] and the result is a solidly funny movie that Says Something more by highlighting the characters of Harold and Kumar than by the political jokes.

What makes it so much fun is the sly sense of humor and the numerous in - jokes hidden in the backgrounds.

It is, in fact, a manic wonder, sneaking in so many small, medium and large jokes on the sly, it has an instantly re-watchable appeal.

It's funny when it needs to be — the battle over the «offensive» content of Hughes» film The Outlaw is both an open - faced slam at the MPAA and a sly in - joke at Scorsese's past films.

Sly in - jokes aimed at genre fans abound: one character reads Philip K. Dick?s last and most personal (and difficult) novel, Valis.

That would be a sly tongue - in -(uhhhh) cheek joke if the new lesbian drama BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR didn't make a point of it in two separate scenes.

For every overwrought sequence of a boy's choir singing «Silent Night, Holy Night» — savor the metaphorical import — you get McCarthy and cinematographer Masanobu Takayanagi cleverly inserting schoolchildren into the background of a cover - up conversation and an AOL billboard doubling as a sly sick - joke punch line.

Functioning as a social critique but operating first and foremost as the driest, bleakest type of comedy, the film seeks not chuckles but gasps of amused horror, a goal most ably and hauntingly achieved during a sick - joke finale in which the bubble is finally burst thanks to a sly bit of pop - culture infiltration.

It also has humour, both laugh out loud bits, and some sly, embarrassing observational jokes.

While that may be some sort of sly in - joke on Walker's part, to the viewer, it is simply an unsatisfying cheat.

It's packed with hidden gems, celebrity cameos, sly innuendos, inside jokes and character development that builds off relationships established in earlier films featuring the various Avengers working solo or as a team.

The effects are cool, the action incessant, the winking jokes (I swear there's even a sly political statement that had my audience burst into applause) work, maybe not so much because they're expertly written but they are spoken by an almost top heavy cast that's clearly having a ball.

Voiced by Eddie Murphy, the character offers a crystal - clear preview of Shrek's companion Donkey, though his jokes here are slyer and less referential.

You can't go 2 minutes in this game without Sly making a wisecrack or another character cracking a joke or a pun or just a funny phrase.

Better still, each stage is packed with inside jokes that NES fans will appreciate — I enjoyed the sly Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reference during the Super Mario Bros. swimming level, personally.

Her contribution to the exhibition includes sweaters with hand - knit political jokes and riddles, as well as «cover girl» self - portrait photographs featuring the artist in deadpan poses revealing the artist's sly sense of humor.

Her contribution to the exhibition includes sweaters with hand - knit political jokes and riddles, as well as «cover girl» self - portrait photographs featuring the artist in deadpan poses revealing the her sly sense of humor.

Galleries advance the image - scavenging of appropriation art, such as Richard Prince's sly painting of an old barroom joke and Sherrie Levine's cast - bronze copy of a Marcel Duchamp urinal.