Sentences with phrase «with odd characters»

Peppered with odd characters and melting emojis Hood's paintings evoke Van Gogh's flowing Starry Night — meets the Internet era.

He is obviously infatuated with odd characters who are slightly off center from society.

page, Sarah decided that it would be entertaining to spend an evening with an odd character.

Not exact matches

It may seem odd to carefully craft fictitious clients with names and backstories, but defining these characters and their attributes will help identify valuable types of visitors and customers and enable you to coordinate the efforts of the various parts of your company in extracting maximum value.

The second Story - substitute proposal suggests that moral rights and duties can be squeezed out of the characters themselves, without the aid of any Story - like the odd movie that succeeds with good characters even without the benefit of a discernible plot.

I have never had a problem with the story of Jesus saving the woman... but that last comment of go and sin no more always struck me as odd... so out of character with Jesus previous statement...» Neither do I accuse you».

It seems a bit odd because they are very different characters, with the Chilean being very much like Wenger and the Argentinean being almost the opposite.

Superstars like Allen Iverson, Stephon Marbury and Tim Duncan were paired with mercurial head coach Larry Brown and asked to lead an odd - fitting bunch of characters that included rookies LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony and Dwyane Wade.

The odd start to the evening was designed to be eaten as the film — Trading Places — began, with Dan Ackroyd, one of the two main characters, being delivered breakfast in bed by his butler.

The site design is a little odd with cartoon style characters featuring in the site navigation.

All complete with action of the martial kind, a wafer thin storyline, and some odd characters for Jackie to bash up and now, a partner who is a lovable wastrel.

The less - than - engrossing atmosphere is compounded by a heavy emphasis on Alice's fashion - centric comings and goings, with Curval's odd refusal to provide down - to - earth elements consistently preventing the viewer from connecting to Girardot's character on an emotional level.

Samantha Morton (whom I didn't recognize at first) is amazing as a widow who develops an odd rapport with Foster's character after he informs her that her husband has been killed overseas.

The balance and depth in the game is astonishing, and even the odd characters have their distinct charms... What's really a shame here is that the developer didn't manage to find a way to supplement the core experience with extras that would extend the life of the game by adding some variety to the package.

But like Shadowlands, it isn't hard to get beyond or forgive the stagey qualities of The Odd Couple once we have gotten on board with the characters and begun to laugh (or cry).

Examines 50 - odd years in the life of its eponymous subject — a most compelling character — and in doing so literally provides the viewer with food for thought.

McGregor's character's actions are odd at times, but then you remember what he's dealing with as a son: astounding revelations about his parents, and now they're both dead.

The figurine set is particularly nice, but it comes with a seemingly odd assortment of characters: Spider - Man, Groot, Black Widow, Iron Man, Thor, Star - Lord, Thanos, a new mystery villain, Doctor Strange and Gamora.

** / **** Image B - Sound C + starring Robert De Niro, Michael Moriarty, Vincent Gardenia screenplay by Mark Harris, based on his novel directed by John Hancock by Walter Chaw Almost fatally hamstrung by an appalling score by Stephen Lawrence, John D. Hancock's Bang the Drum Slowly is a character - driven adaptation of a Mick Harris's novel (Harris also wrote the screenplay) that evokes the odd twilit detachment of professional sports in general and baseball in particular with a tale made suddenly popular in 1973 by the success of Brian's Song.

There's an odd plot point late on involving ecstasy tablets that feels unnecessary, but in general Shelton has a good grasp of her characters, and treats them with equal focus.

It's quirky and odd with an outrageous story and over-the-top characters, and that may not sit well with some people, but that's the kind of game Swery is known to make.

Winstead has had a bit of an odd trajectory in her career, going from thin supporting parts in big dumb studio movies to a huge indie breakout with her magnificent performance in Smashed a few years ago that she unfortunately didn't really capitalize on afterwards, but here she gets the best of both worlds by developing a kickass character we can root for in a thrilling genre piece that also has some depth to her.

There also is an odd feel to the make - up of the city itself, nondescript, with an intentional microcosm of different nationalities, races, genders and accents (It is claimed that author Saramago had the producers agree the story not be set in any recognizable city and without named characters, like the novel).

Even though it cuts out a lot of material from the novel by Thomas Pynchon, the film still has a wealth of characters with odd names, many of whom are given pretty breezy introductions.

A nifty implementation is that player characters are cute little totem fellows while computer - controlled battlers are odd cubes with one eye and a pair of wings to boot.

While the characters are endearing in their own ways, the overall conceit is odd, as children would have no frame of reference to things like the Carrie reference in the frat party, with paint and glitter instead of pig's blood.

If Julian's character is revealed most clearly in his silence and the odd fantasies in his mind, Crystal is a collection of her stiff posture, the stern look on her face, and the way she poses with her cigarette held out an odd angle, waiting for her son to light it — refusing to make even the slightest effort to do something for herself when her trusty servant is near.

Clever and irreverent while respectful of the Lego brand, this odd little movie has as much fun with its blocky characters as children do when making their own Lego creations.

The story, with its opposing elements of character drama and action, is blended so well that, as I said before, it feels like an old Hollywood film from some 60 - odd years ago.

Of the 30 - odd movies Allen has made as a writer or director all have shown off his effortless flair for storytelling, formulating rich character studies with subtle (and sometimes not - so - subtle) subtexts, and playing with plot structures.

One who has no experience with the N64 Mario Party titles will find it rather odd how the 12 character roster from Mario Party 9 has gone down to 6 for the first Mario Party.

There were too many awkward pairings and odd characters introduced all at once, which would have needed a movie twice as long to fully empathize with the characters» arcs.

A disjointed script, with odd - ball characters lead to an unrealistic storyline.

The only welcome elision is the revelation that Liev Schreiber's ex-boyfriend character Stuart is related to Hugh Jackman's Leopold, thus sparing us the odd reveal that Stuart has been sleeping with his great - great - great grandmother for the previous two years.

The odd hybrid of small town soap opera and brutal crime thriller builds slowly — maybe a little too slowly for some — but director Richard Fleischer does an impressive job of weaving the stories and character around each other visually, with characters criss - crossing through scenes and Fleischer panning his camera to across the vast canvas to pick out threads of others stories.

The Shape of Water's path to Oscar glory was arguably an odd one from the beginning, a monster movie / melodrama genre mashup starring two main characters who can't talk isn't exactly Dances with Wolves or The English Patient over here.

Director Bob Byington makes a lot of odd films with weird and quirky characters which I truly appreciate.

, while a little gimmicky (Lloyd reprises his librarian character), does manage to provide a good deal of insight into the difficulties of cel animation as well as the odd priorities of the filmmaking team (animation director Maurice Hunt declares, «Animation is the best art form in the history of the world» — a contention at direct contretemps with The Pagemaster's literary ethic).

One of the five, a trophy wife with a Texas drawl named Skyler (Brooklyn Decker), isn't even an important character but a comic foil to the difficulty of the others (Her delivery is literally as easy as sneezing) and an accessory for the odd conflict between one of the women's husbands and his father (It climaxes with a golf cart race).

The overarching plot deals mostly with themes of duality, which is an odd choice for the Shin Megami Tensei series, which usually brands its characters with various levels of moral ambiguity.

It's not hard to imagine Depp as Wiseau, especially with the former's knack for being able to play odd - type characters who are still grounded and relatable - something that would have worked great with the narrative that The Disaster Artist is trying to tell.

It's as if he's fused the uptight consternation of Tony Randall's Felix Unger with the cantankerous flare of Jack Klugman's Oscar Madison, giving us a one - man Odd Couple — a character forever incapable of feeling comfortable in his own skin.

Alfred Hitchcock is undoubtedly one of the oddest characters ever to have had their wicked way with film.

It's an odd character trait but it ties in with the Shakespearean nature of the script and Rathbone pitches his character's absurd line delivery perfectly.

«That discipline of going in and out of character - I've been doing that with Mike for 30 - odd years,» she says.

That's an odd problem, and a nice problem to have, but McCarthy functions better as a supporting player or as an antagonist, as someone relentless and unchanging that another character has to deal with.

The offbeat chats between Aukerman and his guests, both the big ones after whom the episodes are named (typically B - list actors and comedians) and the secondary ones playing odd characters, consistently amuse with their random, free - flowing nature.

Unusually for what is a conventional Hollywood product (and perhaps for legal reasons) the film often lets the audience fill in blanks with odd narrative ellipses and remarks from characters that inevitably, and with a profoundly sad irony, hint at the state of McDonald's today.

The uninvolving atmosphere only grows more and more palpable as time slowly progresses, with Cronenberg's odd refusal to infuse the central character with any compelling attributes surely standing head and shoulders above the movie's many, many problems (ie Syd is about as flat and one - dimensional as one could possibly envision).

It's odd that a movie set in Madrid doesn't include much Spanish music, but Hispanic actors are represented voicing supporting characters, with Bobby Cannavale as Valiente, Miguel Ángel Silvestre, as famed matador, El Primero, and Gina Rodriguez and Gabriel Iglesias as hedgehogs Una and Cuatro.