Sentences with phrase «something about the comic»

And I want it to say something about the comic within.

Not exact matches

But, without a trace of irreverence, can we not also say there is something genuinely comic about Easter?

Second, does the comic vision, comic storytelling, tell us something about the possibilities of historical existence itself?

When we heard about possibility of baking something for the Comic Relief we could not be more than happy.

There's something rather disarming about the fact three of our top ten political films of the decade are based on comics.

There's something very old Hollywood about Jennifer's look, comprised of an off - the - shoulder, full - skirted LUBLU Kira Plastinina dress with a bow belt, plus a crown braid (of course), at the Twentieth Century Fox event during Comic - Con in San Diego.

The long monologue about comic books and Superman's secret identity takes an awfully long time to say something which could have been handled in a couple of lines, without adding anything particularly profound or bringing new insights on the popular culture it is referencing.

Vaughn isn't the kind of comic actor you immediately and comfortably give yourself over to: He gets laughs by keeping us a little tense — there's something about him that makes us wonder if he's going to blow at any minute.

There is, still, something goofy and amusingly retro about the clay - animated look and style, from the marble - eyed character design to comic relief in the form of a domesticated pig named Hognob, whose grunts are voiced by Park.

Even if one makes allowances for the comic book aspects of the story and the required suspension of disbelief, there is something ludicrous, to put it mildly, about the assertion that seeing an African king possessed of superhuman strength and agility back - flipping across the screen speaks in some profound way to the situation facing the masses of people, black, white or any other epidermal pigmentation.

Here's what we know: Andrew Garfield will play Peter Parker / Spider - Man, and if Comic - Con is any indication, the role is something he's dreamed about his whole life.

We'll always root for Whit Stillman, the writer - director who, with Metropolitan (1990), captured something so subtle, comic and knowing about growing up wealthy in Manhattan.

I haven't read the comic strip, but from the trailers I take it this movie is about a bisexual Game Stop employee trying to get signed to his girlfriend's record label or something... looks interesting...

An engaging if ultimately intellectually lightweight sub-cultural safari, the movie offers up something for and ultimately connects about equally with clucking gawkers and admiring comic book fanboys alike.

It's a gloriously written film, with jokes that are crafted rather than excavated from reams of on - set improvisation1; the success of the punchlines is scattershot and up for debate (connoisseurs of the Borscht belt should find much to admire, but a rehash of Lloyd's lovesick daydream flatlines, due in no small part to an overestimation of the comic chops and kitsch appeal of Honey Boo - Boo's mom), yet there is something bracing about its structural classicism after the last few years of watching the Church of Apatow whack off.

There's something perverse about a blockbuster comic - book adaptation as unwaveringly self - serious as The Dark Knight Rises.

I've long since given up on Levy (something about his child - catcher role in New York Minute (as well as his impenetrable avant - garde turns in Christopher Guest's arrogant flicks) have turned me right off), but Martin, one of the smartest, most transgressive comics of his generation, you just sort of want to like.

In a film with as broadly comic a sensibility as this there is something that doesn't sit right about having such a deplorable male lead.

While some of us aren't too keen on seeing comic book legend Stan Lee's name in front of things, there's something about the idea of a Stan Lee Cameo School that just makes sense.

The latest film from director Paul Weitz sits comfortably alongside his earlier comic and ultimately melodramatic explorations of 30 - something adult anxieties about parenthood, mid-career crises, and personal growth.

So for something like Lobo, without saying too much about it, it'll feel, I imagine, quite different because the Lobo comic itself is quite different.

In Saturday Night Live sketches and early movies like Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore, Sandler certainly has something, but part of what's compelling about him as a comic presence is a kind of goofy, vamping sheepishness about being the center of attention — coupled with a secret desire to hold that attention, hence the stammer - to - roar dynamic of the old «Denise Show» bit on SNL or the righteously ill temper of Happy Gilmore.

There's Something About Mary without heart, timing, intelligence, freshness, you name it, Along Came Polly casts Mary's leading man Stiller as a risk management professional but doesn't make good on the comic possibilities of his patented hapless stick - in - the - mud shtick.

But that tidbit is not something you need to know about her, because she (and the rest of Guest's frequent stars) all pull off their comic (and musical!)

There's something sinister and icily detached about that comic violence.

Sol GOode is a decent flick, not really as good as Swingers, but better than most comic flicks around nowadays about twenty - somethings and their problems.

Special Coverage of this year's San Diego Comic - Con, includes the reveal of Halo: Legends - is it really something to get excited about?

Another backstory about parentage is not something we need to see again in a comic book movie, but Jordan makes it feel involving.

Though there won't be any ships literally sinking because of something like Marvel movie news, loose lips among the actors in the Marvel Cinematic Universe may have dropped some information about one of the comic giant's biggest kept secrets.

I thought it was hinting that the movie was possibly about super powered kids or something cool like that, like a live - action version of the old comic, I think it was called «Power Pack».

The film never seems to decide if it wants to be serious (Stanton, various speeches about the morality of capital punishment) or comic (Brando's overthetop wackiness, the jaunty score) or something in - between (Nicholson and Quaid).

Berry was especially excited about finally utilizing Storm's power of flight — something she does in the comics all the time.

There's something about the most hilarious moments that makes them not translate completely into comic form.

There's something very nice about reading this particular title on a digital device since both the subject and appearance of the comic align with its medium.

Finally, on an April day in 1954, government hearings about comics were televised, and at the end of that day, the public was calling for something to be done about the content in comics.

Creators Brian Truitt interviews Robert Venditti — he's writing X-O Manowar for Valiant and Green Lantern for DC Comics, and is about to step in as writer of The Flash — about reading comics, writing superheroes and taking on his new gig: «You have something like Green Lantern that has a very large mythology that surrounds that character.

I'll admit I know next to nothing about the economics behind comics, physical or digital, but $ 2 seems too much to pay for something that you don't own a physical copy of or can't use on another platform.

Usually, I prefer comic book games working with comic book publishers and writers to create a new story, but for this game there was something comforting about reliving an old classic.

A feature (1) makes a statement about something other than the overall craftsmanship of a comic, and (2) a feature is not obliged to cover either a single book alone or all of one book's parts.

Sharp told a story about a concept illustrator for Lucasfilm who had no background in comic books using the motion - book tools to create something that a traditional comics artist wouldn't ever have considered.

At the same time, a heap of comics publishers, biggie and petite, has gone digital in parallel with print — and the rest are probably planning something app-wise or thinking about it.

David, I'm glad you're talking about digital comics, as they've been something I've been researching and talking about to my friends often.

Here's a secret: whenever I write about comics, I'm not trying to show you why something is good so much as figure out how to express why it clicks for me.

There was something irresistibly comic about the sight of these two old men retreating as if pulled by invisible strings, but she knew that she must not laugh.

GoodEReader interviewed Ape Entertainment CEO David Hedgecock about the development of the comic and how this level of entertainment grows out of something like a game now that the technology to support high - quality digital comics and graphic novels is out there.

You don't have to fall about laughing, you don't have to be a standup comic but something of your pitch, premise, whatever, I feel, should have some of the emotion of your genre, too.

I think that, like this blog, many of us former recovering comics writers will keep spaces for the thoughts about comics that coalesce into something longer than a series of tweets.

Creators Gina Wynbrandt talks about her comic Someone Please Have Sex With Me: «To take moments that are uncomfortable or sad for me, and turn them into something I find funny is great.

As you mention, Monkeybrain has been in operation as a publisher for more than a decade, but making the shift to comics was something that Allison and I had talked about doing for AGES.

«Every case is going to show us something new about our characters, it's going to show us something about what we've developed in the comic, which is a pretty sprawling mythology about superheroes,» said Bendis.