Sentences with phrase «with ramshackle»

The artwork observes Keen's early experimentations as a filmmaker — blending bizarre narrative, explosive animation and an orgy of surrealist collage with a ramshackle, stop - motion glimpse of film noir.

UNESCO - listed sights, mountains cloaked in rainforests, and streets lined with ramshackle rum bars — holidays to the Caribbean give you a tropical getaway with a twist.

Yes, there are some areas with ramshackle housing and slow - moving canals, but Belize City also has stately colonial - era homes, lively shopping districts, beachfront amusement parks, and a flotilla of graceful sailboats.

Within five years, the neighborhood will be converted from a deserted construction area lined with ramshackle scaffolding to a pristine, cobblestone shopping mall and nightlife hub similar to Old San Juan in Puerto Rico.

With a ramshackle plot that appears to have been cooked up after drawing deep on the Dude's biggest bong, the film pinballs between awol movie stars, red - scare nightmares and Bikini Atoll bomb tests, while raising important questions of whether God is still angry («what, he got over it?»)

Not exact matches

He says this matter - of - factly as you begin walking through a scrubby field to an old white farm house, ramshackled and sagging, in need of paint, but generously proportioned and graced with a wraparound veranda.

She then bustled me off to her ramshackle ambulance with three sisters, insisting I drive them into the streets of Calcutta to look for dying people.

In Bangkok, a city with gleaming postmodern kitchens and good ol' greasy spoons alike, one of my favorite food secrets isn't a restaurant at all, but a ramshackle shophouse selling nothing but curry pastes.

According to city records, that building — a ramshackle, two - story building with missing second - floor windows — is owned by Charles Robinson, the brother of 5th Ward council candidate Mark Robinson.

Its ramshackle dwellings are spread over rolling green hills, with dirt roads winding in between.

Perhaps 10 years ago, the scenario had been what i imagined, with men swooping in, and women keen to swap the hard grind of poverty - stricken ukraine for a new life in the us, even if it was a ramshackle house in a north dakotan town or a sleepy midwestern farm, rather than a manhattan penthouse or la beachfront home.

One would think a woman with three young girls would think twice about bringing a strange man into their ramshackle midst.

Unfortunately, he buys his home with his heart, not his head, and winds up with dilapidated, ramshackle house that, in the long run is cheaper to tear down and build over.

First we have the hapless and ramshackle hunters of the stone age with their clubs and leopard - spotted wrestler's trunks, a group who are happy enough in their hunting ground of the «Valley» (wait — is it actually set in London SE7?)

When her latest boyfriend Warren (Troy Skog) is shipped off to jail for cultivating marijuana and their house becomes an off - limits crime scene, Joleen uproots with her daughter Tera (Anna Sophia - Robb) to the ramshackle apartment of her younger brother, James (Nick Stahl).

Deadline reports that Enos is set to play Vicki Hutcheson, a mother with an eight - year - old boy who lives in a ramshackle house in West Memphis.

I thought about it even more during Black Panther, his globe - trotting Marvel superhero extravaganza that nonetheless begins and ends with sad, streetwise children talking smack on an Oakland housing project's ramshackle basketball court.

Once in the City of Light, the depressed Martin attempts suicide and later accepts an offer to stay with his half - brother Benjamin (Mathieu Amalric) and his roommate Alice, a violinist, in their ramshackle garret.

It turns out that the local schoolteacher is fed up with holding classes in a ramshackle lean - to that barely keeps a roof over the students» heads.

Melissa McCarthy joins that class list in the ramshackle, amiable «Life of the Party,» about a woman, freshly dumped by her husband, heading back to college 20 years after she dropped out with a kid on the way.

It starts with an appetizer that establishes its milieu, a ramshackle island community in the Caribbean.

Base building is also a big part of Metal Gear Survive's gameplay, and there's enjoyment in spending time and resources transforming your ramshackle base into one outfitted with water tanks, areas to grow vegetables and rear livestock, cooking stations, and crafting benches.

Trapped in a ramshackle suburban house with leaking pipes, she's trying to bring up her kids while ex-husband and nightclub entertainer Tony (Edgar Ramirez) lives in the basement and her neurotic mother Terry (Virginia Madsen) permanently occupies one bedroom, where she watches TV soaps 24/7 (Joy's family hell, pictured above).

Featuring two current Oscar nominees (Hugh Jackman and Naomi Watts), two Oscar winners (Halle Berry and Kate Winslet) and many more big names including Emma Stone, Richard Gere, Justin Long and Stephen Merchant, this ramshackle arrangement of one - joke vignettes, each with a different director, is an orgy of bad taste that feels laboured, plotless and dull.

Superbad is a funny, boozy, ramshackle party, but it's more likely to leave audiences with a tingly afterglow than a pounding hangover.

by Walter Chaw Surprisingly, perhaps shockingly, Robots isn't terrible, even though it's a product of the same chowderheads behind Ice Age and even though it's your basic ramshackle kid's flick / self - esteem trope (complete with closing musical number) upon which the Shrek franchise has founded a scatological empire.

A match made in feathered - bangs heaven, the love story is incredibly seedy, beginning with a «meet cute» in a ramshackle hallway as Youngblood wanders around wearing only his jock and proceeds into a rare secondary «meet cute» as Youngblood is caught reading a porno novel at the local drugstore.

Howl is a prince with a castle (a walking ramshackle building) which can open up anywhere.

Deeper down, there are thematic parallels to Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums, with Dustin Hoffman equalling Gene Hackman's performance as a ramshackle but charismatic father figure who boasts refined skill for pressing his children's buttons.

drew almost unanimously positive reviews — but despite its quality, Linklater's purposefully ramshackle comedy about the last weekend before college is probably far too low - key to register strongly with Oscar voters.

Excellent performances bolster this ramshackle tale of a champion boxer trying to make good with his life following the loss of the one thing that always managed to keep him on track, his beloved wife, both orphans who met in foster care as they grew up on the wrong side of the tracks in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen.

In the meantime, Lady Bird's enduring the more pressing challenges of amateur high school plays and ramshackle romances, pivoting between ill - advised romances with the good - natured Danny (Lucas Hedges) and chic rocker Kyle (Timothée Chalamet, a world apart from the gay teen in «Call Me By Your Name»).

I think that for a lot of people, what sticks in their minds about Call Me by Your Name is the sensuousness with which it is shot and its almost fantasy - like setting in a ramshackle villa in Italy — essentially, the beauty and emotion of the film.

The boat and cage may be a ramshackled mess, but Lisa and Kate are outfitted with state - of - the - art scuba gear complete with crystal clear radio contact between them.

There's a self - aware feel to the period pageantry, the alternatingly seductive and kinetic cinematography, and the actor's showcase this ramshackle contraption has been held together with spit and bailing wire to be (for what are con artists and undercover agents if not actors?).

At the same time, the film celebrates the ramshackle branding, hand - drawn shop signs and the sheer array of very specific outlets the area has to offer: during our journey, we are allowed a peek into a shop in which people pay to have their eyebrows massaged with lengths of yarn, and also a Hispanic gay disco.

With beautifully framed shots keeping our interest for nearly two hours, Baker showcases the dichotomy of ramshackle inns littering a town lined with off - brand Mickey merchants and discount stoWith beautifully framed shots keeping our interest for nearly two hours, Baker showcases the dichotomy of ramshackle inns littering a town lined with off - brand Mickey merchants and discount stowith off - brand Mickey merchants and discount stores.

In cities with gleaming skyscrapers and bustling industries, the schools are too frequently ramshackle, run - down, substandard accommodations unworthy of those who seek to learn within their walls.

We're talking about ramshackle schools with mud floors, adjacent to open sewers, where parents pay $ 1 - $ 2 a month in tuition because they are so disillusioned with the (frequently unionized) government schools.

Another aspect of my experiences growing up that you'll see reflected in the book is the sharp dichotomy between the haves and haves - not - the town that's booming with development while just on the other side of the forest there's a village that is crushingly poor; or the skyscrapers going up in full view of ramshackle houses.

But soon after establishing himself in San Francisco - where he alternates between a shoddy garage apartment and the absurdly ramshackle ESL school where he teaches - Aaron sees that real freedom will not come until he has made peace with his memories of Morton, Minnesota: a cramped town whose four hundred souls form a constellation of Aaron's childhood heartbreaks and hopes.

Domenica Ruta grew up in Danvers, Massachusetts, in a ramshackle, rundown, trash - filled house with her mother, a drug dealer and user who raised Domenica on a steady diet of Oxycontin.

Unfortunately, many puppy farmers had little knowledge of canine husbandry and often began their ventures with little money and ramshackle conditions.

It's a slightly ramshackle area yet sufficiently scenic with waterfront kampung houses to the east and jungle to the mountainous west.

Fidel Castro began a long term regeneration of Havana and the result is beautiful architecture in combination with areas that are quite ramshackle, infused with modern 21st - century buildings.

This makes for some luscious outside environments teaming with wildlife offset by the harsh ramshackle shanty towns that make up the majority of the human cities.

But the uncertainty over these games, with eyewitness accounts and research contradicting Nintendo's formal documentation, speaks volumes about the ramshackle nature of the American console market at the time of the NES's debut.

Leading up to his two exhibitions later this autumn at David Zwirner's gallery spaces in London (October 5 — November 17) and New York (November 1 — December 19), I discussed with Tuymans a number of subjects that come out of his two new bodies of work, including the questions they raise around the romanticized life of artists, the recurring issue of otherness in his work, and how a talking parrot in a charmingly ramshackle tapas bar close to his studio inspired the title for a series of new paintings.

He's also returning to music with his forthcoming second album, Mind Trap, which is preceded by the ramshackle indie pop of the first single, You Return.

Smeared with mud, Laure Prouvost's letter of invitation for her exhibition «This is the visit» announced a tea party and an evening of «fond - razing» for her Grand Dad, described elsewhere as «a very close friend of Kurt Schwitters» who is still lost in the tunnel he's been digging to Africa from his ramshackle cabin in England's Lake District.