Sentences with phrase «with gonzo»

«Child caps his steadily building narrative with a gonzo action scene that seems a little heavy for Indiana.»

Lastly there is a super funny and very interesting audio commentary track with Gonzo, Rizzo and Brian Henson.

But the guys behind Cabin delve far deeper into the geek abyss than many viewers will expect, emerging with a gonzo, convoluted send - up that stirs the pot even as it flies off the rails (no spoilers here, kids).

Working with director David Dobkin, Gough and Millar (who previously created «Smallville» and wrote Dobkin's film «Shanghai Knights») cross-pollinate soap - opera melodrama with gonzo hand - to - hand combat scenes.

Based on the book by The Room's star Greg Sestero, it takes a remarkably personal look at the antics of aspiring actor - filmmaker Tommy Wiseau, who is played by James Franco with gonzo charm.

Despite all these stars, the biggest surprise of the night was the appearance of Muppet's legend Dave Goelz with Gonzo the Great.

Blend out with Gonzo and add Sugarpill's Lumi to the inner corner.

But she turned the industry upside - down with her gonzo, feminist take on porn.

The next slide showed O'Leary posing with Gonzo from the Muppets.

Not exact matches

I would ask though that I not be lumped with Stephanie / SCCL — while her critiques of Tony are spot on, she has gone gonzo on those women who dared to also critique Pete and Jay especially during the whole Phyllis Tickle debacle — these three boys» history of on and offline bullying is godawful.

No surprise with Bates, McGovern, Gonzo running with the 1s.

Which is one reason why I'll never be totally on board with conservatism or libertarianism or with the type of liberalism that's gonzo for globalism.

Vice Magazine, a gonzo - journalism publication based in Brooklyn, put up a story yesterday morning proclaiming, «We Are With John McAfee Right Now, Suckers.»

In the years since Chris Columbus «sleepy debut films, the series has had its ups (Alfonso Cuarón «s immaculate «Prisoner of Azkaban «-RRB- and its downs (Mike Newell «s gonzo Bollywood «Goblet of Fire «-RRB- before settling in with its designated auteur, David Yates, who has helmed the last four films including this, the final entry, «Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2.»

In pushing the film into gonzo - style comedy instead of melodrama or pure docudrama, Gillespie successfully navigates a very tricky line — this is, after all, a story filled with domestic abuse and violence, something that shouldn't be played for laughs but is also not the focus of the story.

But there are some spots that transcend the rote nature of the film: Zach Galifianakis» gonzo Alan walks with all the film's memorable moments, from his asking about beeper - friendliness to his speech on the roof, and his Rain Man infatuation to his treatment of the baby they find in a closet.

Some jokes fall flat, a few scenarios seem uninspired, and Arnett's horse does seem strikingly similar to his hilarious man - child / magician Gob in Arrested Development, but this bizarre dreamscape where humans and anthropomorphic animals commingle and cohabitate is filled with promise, providing a fun, delightfully gonzo take on Hollyweird.

The Blu - ray debut features all the supplements of that release: three commentary tracks (one by director Terry Gilliam, one by stars Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro, and one by producer Laila Nabulsi and author Hunter S. Thompson), deleted scenes with commentary by Gilliam, the 1978 BBC «Omnibus» documentary «Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood» (with Hunter S. Thompson and artist Ralph Steadman), the ten - minute featurette «Hunter Goes to Hollywood,» an audio documentary on the controversy over the screenplay credit, a survey of the marketing campaign, selections from the correspondence between Johnny Depp and Hunter S. Thompson (read on camera by Depp), an excerpt from the 1996 audio CD «Fear and Loathing» starring Maury Chaykin, Jim Jarmusch, Harry Dean Stanton, and Glenne Headly, background notes on Oscar Zeta Acosta (the real life activist and attorney who inspired the character of Dr. Gonzo), and galleries of storyboards, stills, and Ralph Steadman art.

DEADLINE — Becca Thomas and Jessica Caldwell are adapting Cheryl Della Pietra's book Gonzo Girl, inspired by the author's crazy experiences while working with the late journalist and novelist Hunter S. Thompson.

When: October 11th Why: The first «Machete» wasn't nearly as entertaining as its gonzo premise suggested, but with Robert Rodriguez taking over full directing duties for the sequel, there's a part of me that really wants «Machete Kills» to fulfill that potential, especially with a rumored third installment («Machete Kills Again... In Space!»)

This gonzo sci - fi outing, set in 2259, proves to be a messy amalgam — a motion picture with the body of a mainstream blockbuster but the spirit of a trendy cult flick.

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The most notable assassin of the bunch — a man who calls himself The Sadist (Togo Igawa) and uses various poisons and acids to torture his victims — is not only a repulsive homage to gonzo Japanese torture porn, but feels completely out of sync with the rest of the movie's more whimsical tone.

One fateful evening, some kind of humanoid aquatic creature arrives for study, hauled in by a nefarious government agent played with controlled gonzo by Michael Shannon.

It's hard to believe that any film that starts so promisingly, with Ryan Phillippe full - on punching Sarah Silverman in the mouth, can go so far downhill, but despite its gonzo and engaging opening half hour, the film soon sinks under its own weight, hampered by thin characterization, ludicrous overplotting and a director way, way too much in love with the prose on the page to bother trying to make it sound like dialogue from a human mouth.

Anyways, with the occasional clip from The Muppet Movie, a bit of footage from the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of The Muppets» Wizard of Oz, and plenty of in - character comments from Kermit's long - time co-stars including Fozzie Bear, Gonzo, Miss Piggy, Statler, and Waldorf, Kermit is profiled in a breezy, semi-entertaining and mostly forgettable manner.

Key to the gonzo conception of Split is the way it reformulates some of its director's best - known work; Kevin is basically the plot of The Village — that is, a community of survivors in conflict over an unseen monster — mashed together with a second film that will go unnamed here in the interest of avoiding spoilers.

But Scott was a real gonzo stylist, and this movie mostly looks like a turd, filled with amateurish, off - putting dissolves and blurry, added - in - post zooms.

Operating out of his own beachside «surgery» — with his very own gonzo lawyer, Fear and Loathing's Benicio del Toro — Doc's odyssey begins when his old squeeze enlists him to find a missing real estate developer suspected of being kidnapped.

But I do think that the best nonfiction writers working today approach their subjects with the same fearlessness and unorthodoxy and humor and personal investment that were all critical components of «gonzo.»

But while movies like «End of Watch,» «Prisoners» and «Enemy» have helped remind audiences why he's one of the best actors of his generation, «Nightcrawler» pushes that envelope even further with what appears to be his most gonzo performance yet.

While I'm not a fan of this franchise, I can honestly say that audiences never know what type of gonzo story they're going to get with each new installment.

The novelty of Baron Cohen's undercover gonzo shtick was still firmly in place with this film; it's been all downhill from there.

It's a macabre and inspired conceit, and one mined for biting social satire by writer / director Brian Taylor on his first solo outing since his gonzo collaborations with Mark Neveldine (the Crank films, Gamer), which similarly provoked and parodied cultural bugaboos.»

The lopsided art style comes with a hefty dose of inspiration from gonzo artist Ralph Steadman, acknowledged via a cameo appearance by a Hunter S. Thompson caricature.

Thompson influenced the past few generations with his invention of Gonzo Journalism.

Recap: The second Muppet movie begins with Animal doing his thing and then Kermit, Fozzie and Gonzo noticing the credits while riding a hot air balloon.

The Blu - ray serves up a few more, including one for what looks like a gonzo Eli Roth pic, Knock Knock, shot with Reeves starring just before the original John Wick revitalized his career.

That said, some of their most recent films I haven't entirely clicked with: «Burn After Reading» was fun, but feels minor in retrospect, while «True Grit» was uncharacteristically straightforward and old - fashioned in the context of some of their more gonzo affairs.

Johnny Depp was good friends with legendary gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson and has played variations on him twice — in Terry Gilliam's 1998 «Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas» and now in «The Rum Diary,» based on a semiautobiographical previously unpublished novel that Depp himself helped get into print in 1998.

Paul ends up an improbable crusader against those interests but not before gallivanting gonzo - style with a pair of newspaper buddies (well played by Giovanni Ribisi and Michael Rispoli) who make him seem almost sane by comparison.

Synopsis: «Lamberto Bava and Dario Argento bring you THE Gonzo Horror movie of the 1980s with Demons, a frenzied slice of gore heavy shock cinema that gives up on logic and instead assaults the screen with a riot of X-Rated violence, face chewing Zombies and pounding Heavy Metal.

The important stuff will be the gonzo set pieces, which include an obligatory barroom brawl — presumably with even more mug - shattering forehead violence — a skiing scene, robot dogs, a henchman missing an arm instead of both legs, and «a massive fucking frankfurter.»

Dead Rising 2 was a huge hit with gamers in large part thanks to the innovative Combo Card system that let players duct tape all sorts of stuff together and create some gonzo weapons.

«To stage The Greatest Muppet Telethon Ever and raise the $ 10 million needed to save the theater, Walter, Mary and Gary help Kermit reunite the Muppets, who have all gone their separate ways: Fozzie now performs with a Reno casino house band called the Moopets, Miss Piggy is a plus - size fashion editor at Vogue Paris, Animal is in a Santa Barbara clinic for anger management, and Gonzo is a high - powered plumbing magnate.»

Shot in stand - alone chapters as it is being financed, screened, and released, Wrong Cops is gonzo film - making with a unique online strategy.

To stage The Greatest Muppet Telethon Ever and raise the $ 10 million needed to save the theater, Walter, Mary and Gary help Kermit reunite the Muppets, who have all gone their separate ways: Fozzie now performs with a Reno casino tribute band called the Moopets, Miss Piggy is a plus - size fashion editor at Vogue Paris, Animal is in a Santa Barbara clinic for anger management, and Gonzo is a high - powered plumbing magnate.

«I, Tonya» At turns hilarious and heart - breaking, this gonzo retelling of the circumstances leading up to the 1994 attack on Olympic figure skater Nancy Kerrigan opens with the claim, «Based on irony free, wildly contradictory, totally true interviews with Tonya Harding and Jeff Gillooly,» suggesting a toxic kind of irreverence toward the scandal it depicts.

To say that this is not a movie to everyone's tastes is to understate the point; Swiss Army Man leans into its vulgar absurdity at every turn, beginning with a triumphant opening scene of Dano riding Radcliffe's corpse across the water like a speedboat — powered, of course, by his ass wind — and only getting more gonzo from there.

And so it is in 2015, though these latest hustlers have simply gone gonzo with performance goodies.