Sentences with phrase «whatsits of»

«Unclassifiable» is the best way to describe the genre - hopping whatsits of Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, who followed their cabin - in - the - woods crazy quilt Resolution with Spring, a swoony walk - and - talk romance that just happened to double as a gooey creature feature.

Following the grim one - two punch of his gloomy, arresting «Prisoners» and his whatsit of a doppelganger flick «Enemy,» «Sicario» emerges as Villeneuve's most assured and distressing work to date.

Not exact matches

In Avatar, the official political interpretation of the Edenic moon Pandora is unobtainium repository, unobtanium being «a great whatsit» of a natural resource «that is an emblem of humanity's greed and folly.»

But inside sits an array of parts, gadgets, and whatsits representing the vast panoply of modern design and engineering.

A documentary whatsit acutely aware of the inherent performance people put into social discourse to maintain appearances.

You could argue that «Bottle Rocket» prepared Wilson for a career of choosing films that were either rejected or misunderstood upon their release: the buried Mike Judge comedy «Idiocracy,» the proudly peculiar Bob Dylan whatsit «Masked and Anonymous.»

Markers of time and place are also disorientingly absent in one of the festival's genuine whatsits, Alessandro Comodin's Happy Times Will Come Soon, which screened out of competition in Critics» Week.

Vanguard alumni Peter Strickland returns to the section with his bewitching The Duke Of Burgundy (Grade: B +), an even better genre whatsit than Berberian Sound Studio.

Lynch, it turns out, is the last in a special bloodline of members of the Assassin's Creed, a shadowy organization that has throughout history battled the Knights Templar (the Crusades - era Christian military force) and protected a sacred whatsit called the Apple of Eden.

It instead opts for a magical whatsit in the form of nanomachines that can do anything: healing all sorts of wounds, creating matter from seemingly nothing, and turning the population of the small town into super-powered drones that do Computer Will's bidding.

Even so, Italian - horror buffs may feel a flush of nostalgia watching this bewitching genre whatsit, which manages to evoke the crimson - splashed shockers of the 1970s without so much as a single frame of actual carnage.

Early in the first part of his sprawling metafictional docu - whatsit Arabian Nights, the director Miguel Gomes is reflected in a café window as he flees his crew for conceiving the absurdly overambitious project he's set up.

This whatsit begins with a prim and proper maiden talking to CGI squirrels and birds before firing a pistol into the throat of an obvious sex offender in the middle of a sunny suburban street.

In what promises to be a dizzying master class in shape - shifting persona swapping, actress Cate Blanchett takes on 13 different roles (including housewife, factory worker, and TV anchor) in German video artist Julian Rosefeldt's experimental whatsit on the inspirational, revolutionary power of the world's most influential art movements.

Yes, it's nice to have makerspaces with «gadgets and gizmos and whatsits galore» (in the words of Ariel from A Little Mermaid) with products like Hummingbird sets and 3D printers and other cool tools that let kids create.

Many manufacturers, whether of widgets or whatsits, equally divide the entire company's overhead equally over all departments.

What a totally and stupendously staggering work of human creativity — got a pile of 3D photo whatsits I still look at now and then.