Sentences with phrase «stabs at playing»

Or take a stab at playing the songs yourself...

The Ivory Coast international notably flopped at Manchester United earlier in his career but looks back to his best now and could get another stab at playing for a top club.

Not exact matches

I definitely would like to take a stab at picking individual stocks Buffett style, but won't do so until I have enough «play cash» to invest with.

If that's the random pastime they're playing at, here's our stab: the movie's repeat references to «Fight Club» bring David Fincher to mind, and in turn, Fincher's amusement - gone - awry thriller «The Game.»

That's not to say it lacks some annoying «Another Earth» - like stabs at deep thoughts («It's dangerous to play god,» Sofi says when Ian asserts he can create superficial eyes for blind worms), and the whole premise has blatantly silly undertones (especially if one considers why no past researchers could have made these discoveries before).

But the movie plays fast and loose with how strong they make Thanos at any given moment — sometimes he's nigh - invincible, at others apparently susceptible to shallow stab wounds — and that goes for his henchmen as well, who have such delightful names as Corvus Glaive and Proxima Midnight.

But «Godard Mon Amour,» the director's half - parodic / half - earnest stab at turning his country's rule - breaking enfant terrible (played by Louis Garrel) into one - half of a prickly movie couple — focusing on his then - new marriage to his «La Chinoise» star Anne Wiazemsky (Stacy Martin)-- is the kind of curiously inconsequential homage that neither stokes your interest in cinema / Godard nor illuminates a turbulent love story between artists.

Roger Michell has directed this latest stab at My Cousin Rachel, starring Rachel Weisz as Rachel (the role played by Olivia de Havilland in an early film version) and Sam Claflin as her young cousin who is attracted by her but isn't at all sure if she is to be trusted.

Starring: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Alyson Hannigan, Sara Gilbert, Ed O'Neil, Christine Baranski What you missed out on: The premise of the series involved Hewitt playing a single - mom sports producer who ends up as highly successful on - air talent, but despite taking two stabs at a pilot, the show never gelled properly.

for the Sandler bunch, the fact that it was a throwback to the old Hawks / Sturges brand of farcical morality play (a subgenre that has been more or less dead for decades outside of the occasional stab at it by the Coens (Intolerable Cruelty) or I ♥ Huckabees «s director David O Russell).

The goofy playfulness continues as Charlie Sheen and Simon Rex take a stab at Signs, playing a familiar pair of farmer brothers.

First stabs at film often have the same lethargic traits — ordinary framing, awkward line readings, etc. — so it's nice that Drew finds an energy in his home turf that avoids and sometimes plays off those traps.

There is some humor in their dynamic; Ramsay presents Joe's mama's - boy deference by having him arrive at her house while Psycho is playing on television, hinting that there's a bit of Norman Bates's mania in his devotion (he even jokes about stabbing her in the shower).

There are pointed stabs at needy stage types, imperious New York critics (Lindsay Duncan briefly but memorably sketches an icy reviewer waiting to kill Riggan's play in a heartbeat) and contemporary theatre's reliance on movie stars to pull in the punters.

Like the frustrated screenwriter played by Vincent D'Onofrio in The Player, you may want to make a stab at regaining your faith in the movies by taking another look at this neorealist masterpiece.

John White, Louisiana's exceptionally able commissioner of education, took a stab at that, and a group of foundations is currently standing up a new nonprofit to play this role, too.

I definitely would like to take a stab at picking individual stocks Buffett style, but won't do so until I have enough «play cash» to invest with.

Although Bound by Flame takes a vague stab at being a role - playing game, it's severely limited in that form.

Personally, I'm a bow guy — I'll stand back and shoot three arrows at a time into the creatures weak spots whilst rolling out the way if it begins to charge at me, whereas when playing online I saw others with massive swords jumping onto the creatures backs and riding them around whilst stabbing them in the back.

With a nice new coat of paint and some online play, it could be a great way to get the Halo name out there again before 38 Studios takes a stab at whatever the next game might be.

You play from a third person perspective and like Shadow of the Colossus, you can climb all over the larger enemies, stabbing at them as you go.

His team took a stab at the «Hero Shooter» genre in 2017 with LawBreakers, and they followed it up with Radical Heights, a free - to - play «Battle Royale» game, earlier this year.

That, it seems, is what's happening here as they play to expand the more popular sides of the game — 22 % of Black Ops 3 Zombies players performed all the rituals in the mode's launch map — and taking a stab at the Battle Royale genre wouldn't exactly be that surprising given its current popularity.

Sypro hasn't had a must - play game since the PlayStation 1; bringing the franchise back via remaster would be a great way to get gamers to connect with Sony history while, potentially, inspiring developers to take another stab at the IP or draw inspiration from it to create something new.

Building layers on top of the base blockchain is generally accepted as the best method of scaling these cryptocurrency networks further, and Bitcoin's first stab at this scaling method, known as the lightning network, is already being played around with on mainnet.