Sentences with phrase «so deadpan»

Whereas a current exhibition such as State of Play at London's Serpentine Gallery is so understated in its playfulness, so deadpan in manner as to be an unrewarding disappointment (apart from some great gags by David Shrigley), New Blood is crammed to the point of incoherence.

It's all pretty stupid stuff, but it's all played so deadpan, and it's hard not to be charmed when your collecting items with names like «The Candle of Darkness», «The Talisman of The Cyclone» and «The Gremlin Stick».

Here to help you along is Paul George, and typical of sports athletes and games, his delivery is so deadpan it's actually kind of amusing.

Their interactions are marked by a tone so deadpan that behavioural norms eventually fall off the map and a different type of universe is conjured — one in which murder is simply a practical solution to a flesh and blood problem, and nothing you wouldn't do a for a friend.

Jennifer Jason Leigh, as psychologist Dr. Ventress, seems to be aging into a Clint Eastwood type: She's so deadpan, she barely opens her mouth.

Not exact matches

When Chara remarks that he is famished after a long workout, a PR assistant starts listing menu items served in the team cafeteria today: steak tips, chicken... «So,» deadpans Chara, «everything I don't eat.»

Following several excruciatingly stiff remarks by various attendees — My husband is Dan So - and - So, we have two kids, and we're really excited to be here — Lisa deadpanned, «I'm married to that tall, lanky receiver.

Doyle spends so much time on the course talking to himself that analyst Denny Schreiner deadpans, «A transcript of Allen Doyle's conversations with himself is available for $ 9.95.»

I know there is press here tonight, so I will say it «is» good,» Bewkes deadpanned.

And finally, if you are counting calories, you don't necessarily have to be deadpan accurate with it (which is impossible anyway)-- as long as you're close enough, like 10 - 15 % within the truth, that's good enough to facilitate long run progress, especially if by doing so you make the process easier and thus more sustainable.

And his sidekick is so damn deadpan, it feels as if Johansson is just plain bored.

Trank's take on the material, in sharp contrast, is dead serious, albeit in a way that allows for a surprising amount of wry, deadpan humor so understated it can be easily overlooked or missed altogether.

His deadpan delivery of jokes that are so pathetic they're funny is unequalled.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

So much credit to an engaging cast whose most effective weapon is deadpan delivery.

Ari Graynor — who struggles with a part that Renee Zellweger might have nailed a decade or so ago — plays a money - hungry secretary who thinks she's struck gold when a childhood pal and co-worker (a deadpan Colin Hanks) collects a $ 36 million lottery jackpot.

So no, it's not a sly, dark, romantic deadpan comedy after all.

Director Johan Renck essentially builds Nancy and Albert's reality out of an aggregation of overwrought kitsch... and so what seem like occasional lapses into deadpan moments of fantasy aren't always productive in contrast.

Because Kenney and his deadpan cohort were so constantly messing with one another, they're usually tripped up when one of them yields to a moment of sincerity.

This Swedish film is so bizarre that it almost defies description: is it a deadpan comedy, a satire of Swedish history or a wry exploration of how people cope with imperfection and mortality?

So please, voters, resist the urge to hand Damien Chazelle this particular award and go instead with the flavorful dialogue and novelistic texture of Hell Or High Water; the rich characterizations of 20th Century Women; the world - building and deadpan hilarity of The Lobster; or the all - of - the - above of Manchester By The Sea, which confirms Lonergan as one of the great dramatists working in movies today.

The standout scene of the brothers» semi-affectionate riff on 1950s Hollywood throws the brunt of their combined talent for writing and deadpan timing into a two - man vaudeville routine of words and manners, in which a sophisticated director (Ralph Fiennes) and a bumpkin - ish actor (Alden Ehrenreich) struggle to get through a single line of dialogue: «Would that it were so simple.»

The deadpan is so good, it's terribly entertaining to watch - also, I've said it and I'll say it again, Colin Farrell 4eva.

In many ways, it recalls the Sparrow character he so brilliantly created for the «Pirates» franchise, from his headscarf to his deadpan reactions to his amusing brand of bumbling competence.

For a film that circles suicide, it is the funniest of the year (so far) and the cast's effortless deadpan will have you in absolute, ROFL stitches.»

So if you're looking for a gumshoe noir, the credentials are there in abundance, right down to a deadpan narrator.

«I'm unemployed now, so I'd like to be on Mad Men,» she deadpanned.

His deadpan acting style hasn't seemed so close to contempt for the material since his late - run appearances on X-Files, and his renewed obligation to sort through mouthfuls of fuzzy pseudo-science doesn't help.

So it goes in The Young Karl Marx, an improbably lush and deadpan - funny epic about a pair of two - fisted materialists and the bodacious babes who loved them, as they brawled and rollicked their way toward writing The Communist Manifesto.

The actor could easily follow that muse into the late - night world that's been so kind to the aggressive antics of Tim & Eric and Eric André, deadpanning his way through hifalutin works of mindfuckery 15 minutes at a time.

So we get Pacino doing a Tony Montana growl and A Scent of the Woman dance; Walken doing his deadpan delivery and even a quick little soft shoe; and Arkin falls back into his half - crazed, moment - seizing act.

Fans of Bridesmaids know that McCarthy is a spitfire of an actress and nobody does deadpan better than Jason Bateman, which is why they work together so wonderfully.

In an especially amusing exchange, Baumbach says he doesn't really care whether the film offends any members of his immediate family, to which Lopate responds that he himself still feels guilty with regards to some of the non-fiction he's written, prompting a deadpan «Yeah, so do I» from Baumbach.

The actor has relied on his usual sarcastic shtick for many of his roles, so it's nice to see him deliver a slightly different, more nuanced performance that puts his deadpan comic delivery to pitch - perfect use.

Speaking of Geralt it's easy to write him off as another typically gruff hero with a voice so gravelly it could be used for making driveways, but he's actually quite a fascinating character, exhibiting a far more complex personality that you'd initially give him credit for, including some deadpan humour, genuine caring, interesting insights and much more.

«So, this is Everything,» he deadpanned.

In the flesh, Graham is not so much deadpan as diffident.

The exhibition as a whole may appear deadpan, satirical or pathetic — in any case each of the constituent works turns its back on complacency, and, in doing so, becomes material evidence of resistance (kicking from within the sack).

Inspired by a variety of technical illustrations he found on the Internet, Winters invented wild, colorful patterns that took on lives of their own, so that — save for the deadpan titles (Cell, Cobalt, Cinnabar)-- it's almost impossible to tell what their source images depicted.

He offers a few pieces treated in so spare and deadpan a manner as to make us wonder whether he picked them off the studio floor.