Sentences with phrase «with schmaltz»

Gaps between «jokes» are filled with schmaltz.

The only let down is the script — following a familiar formula, the ending goes one punch too far with the schmaltz.

Surprisingly superficial for a sentimental message movie laden with schmaltz and mood muzak.

Critic Consensus: Laden with schmaltz and largely bereft of evident narrative purpose, North represents an early major disappointment from previously sure - handed director Rob Reiner.

Critics Consensus: Laden with schmaltz and largely bereft of evident narrative purpose, North represents an early major disappointment from previously sure - handed director Rob Reiner.

If you want to splurge, you can replace the frying oil completely with schmaltz.

In fact cooking any roasted vegetable with schmaltz is an A + move.

This gravy begins with schmaltz, the chicken fat that dreams and matzoh balls are made of.

But you're much too young to have heard that song, so I'll drop with the schmaltz and just say that despite my avoidance of bread, your recipes always look good enough to... um — eat!

Not exact matches

A bastion of calm across the street from Brooklyn's invariably teeming Trader Joe's, this sunny storefront in Cobble Hill offers schmaltz - fried potato pancakes (also available in vegetarian and gluten free), as well as latkes made with sweet potatoes and celery root.

Top that with 1 tablespoon of warmed schmaltz onions, then the pickle slices.

Once the onions are soft and starting to caramelize, add the livers to the pan with the rest of the schmaltz.

we eat them year round cooked in schmaltz (chicken fat) with raw sour cream and homemade applesauce.

Either keep it dairy (with the cheese) and skip the meat and use butter or coconut oil instead of the bacon fat; or you could make it meat and eliminate the cheese but add a larger amount of turkey bacon and use either beef drippings, schmaltz, or coconut oil; or you could make the recipe pareve by skipping both the cheese and the meat and using just coconut or olive oil and some chopped, cooked veggies like cauliflower or broccoli, or even some salmon if you like.

Working in batches and adding more schmaltz and oil to skillet as needed to maintain 1/8 inches fat, drop large spoonfuls of mixture into pan, pressing gently with the back of a spoon or spatula to flatten slightly.

Toss tomatillos, peppers, chiles, jalapeños, onion, scallions, garlic, schmaltz, and oregano in a large bowl; season with salt.

While schmaltz may not be the healthiest of oils (there is some debate on this subject), it imparts an authentic flavor that can't be replicated with vegetable - based oil.

Note: If you're serving latkes with dairy sour cream and want to keep things kosher, do not add the optional schmaltz to the frying oil, or choose a non-dairy sour cream.

Fats such as tallow, lard, ghee and schmaltz (chicken fat), along with other animal fats, are steeped in a rich history of providing nourishment in past generations.

Once the onions are soft and starting to caramelize, add the livers to the pan with the rest of the schmaltz.

We often use it to help fill hungry bellies when the larder is low or money tight, but always prepared with nutritious broth and lots of good - quality butter, bacon fat or schmaltz (rendered chicken fat) added.

For that you want fats with high smoke points like coconut oil, schmaltz, or tallow.

What began two films ago as a deliciously snarky reinventing of fairy tales, done with appropriate, and long overdue, swipes at the purveyors of schmaltz has become the very thing it once made sport of.

The film wastes such formidable laugh - getters as Patton Oswalt (virtually his entire role is in the trailer) and Rob Corddry, while ladling on the schmaltz in a climactic sequence with Martin Sheen as Dodge's long - estranged father.

At only 84 minutes, it never bogs down with needless seriousness or scenes of emotional schmaltz, always seeking to keep audiences smiling with sight gags, allusions that are actually clever, and choice bits of music that accentuates the action instead of just being shoehorned in to hock soundtracks.

The characters and situations may be different, but creator / executive producer Cherry's signature tone of arch cattiness leavened with sentimental schmaltz is unmistakable.

Hollywoodland is a great start if you've been waiting for something with substance, not schmaltz!

Reitman has been stuck in a rut since his last project with Theron (Young Adult) but has demonstrably moved past a mid-life directing crisis, hurdling the ennui of Men, Women and Children's cheap ensemble posturing and the cheesy schmaltz of Labor Day's fetid forbidden love story.

The story could have been a recipe for cheeseball schmaltz, but with a script from Diablo Cody (Juno) and direction from Young Adult director Jason Reitman, Tully is a much darker and incisive story than I anticipated.

Voiced with perfect innocence by Ben Whishaw and gorgeously animated by Framestore, this profoundly likeable bear consistently toes the line of maximum charm without slipping into schmaltz.

The new episodes continue to skimp on the schmaltz, so expect the same joyous balance of the political and the personal, with a couple of family dance breaks — yes, including Schneider (Todd Grinnell), whose new iteration has learned to keep his hands to himself — in between.

T2 will doubtless always be the cinematic franchise at its peak, simply because it blends everything so well — Cameron directs with verve, intensity & emotion; his cast balance drama, comedy & feeling perfectly; the script avoids cheese or schmaltz to touch on deeper themes & be remarkably human & the narrative expands the story logically and satisfyingly outwards.

After all, that one was at least somewhat clever with its humor, a bit relatable to its title character and how having God's powers affects him, and surprisingly effective in bringing a worthwhile theme out of its later schmaltz.

When you see the dead wife's gorilla friend or her dog try to bond with Grace as if they sense her presence, it will probably have you hurling chunks in your popcorn bucket at such nauseating syrupy schmaltz that what should be touching ends up quite laughable.

But unlike P.S. I Love You, which overdid the manipulative schmaltz with sugary excess, Definitely, Maybe doesn't provide too many eye - rolling moments and never gets too touchy - feely or vomit - inducing.

He's trying to make a heart - tugging account of a boy and his horse with all the classical filmmaking techniques that he grew up admiring, but where schmaltz can work when done delicately and with precision, Spielberg and his collaborators have lacquered this baby up in so many shiny coats of manipulative drivel that it borders on spoof.

(She cuts her schmaltz with zest.)

With no moment uncommented - upon by Horner's bank of weeping violins and no lovely Roger Deakins tableau unmarred by Horner's insatiable taste for schmaltz, the picture is a prime example of two things: the prestige picture / Oscar grab; and the film of grand emotions that decides to trust its composer over its cast and screenplay.

With that said, schmaltz has its fans, as evidenced by a few scattered displays of sincere applause by the general public in attendance at my screening upon the overdue arrival of the end credits.

Here, he pushes the boundaries of schmaltz, making his directing debut with a desperately cutesy adaptation of a play by longtime pal Bob Glaudini that reeks of condescension.»

Watching the original — with so many stars, so many stories — you wondered whether they'd drown first in seawater or schmaltz.

It's still better than most rom - coms that grace the silver screen, and per typical Crowe fashion, it has that feel - good ending he always does so well with some humor and schmaltz mixed together.

If you're still conscious after freebasing all that undiluted schmaltz, an unforgivable score (by quintuple threat Amenábar, credited with producing, editing, writing, and directing duties), all soaring violins and, the humanity, bagpipes and Irish fifes, should finish the job.

The obsession with reworking John Denver's hilljack schmaltz classic «Country Road» into an un-ironic ode to the «concrete roads» of the picture's Tokyo - bound little girl protagonist (Shizuku (Youko Honna)-RRB-, for instance, almost by itself renders Whisper of the Heart a Hello Kitty!

The movie, about a boy (Thomas Mann) whose mother (person - we - wish - we - were, Connie Britton) forces him to befriend a former Hebrew school classmate with leukemia (Cooke), may sound like dying - teen schmaltz, but don't dismiss it just yet.

Scoring 8 out of 10 on the schmaltz scale, «This Beautiful Fantastic» makes an unabashed appeal to viewers with a high tolerance for whimsical fantasy.

Insulting your intelligence on a regular basis, the film repeatedly defies logic and tries to divert attention from its failings with some old - fashioned schmaltz.

It's the type of «love of the sport» schmaltz usually reserved for horrible children's books, but in this case was turned into a voiceover (read by Bryant) and animated with highlights from the NBA superstar's career juxtaposed against a small child intently learning the game.

With neither irony nor schmaltz, the film is about what is really important in life, at once ineffable and immediate poetry.

Every year studios crank out dozens of them and they tend to be made for TV schmaltz fests, most filled with force - fed morals and talking dogs that have to make it home by Christmas some way somehow!