Sentences with phrase «with visual wit»

You can, believe it or not, see some of Leitch's affinity for the silent classics in Deadpool 2, a movie that often blends action and comedy with visual wit and efficiency, offering an unexpected new angle to a sequel that returns with the expected load of R - rated snark and in - jokes for movie buffs (Celine Dion sings over the opening sequence, which invokes everything from Bond movies to Flashdance.)

Not exact matches

The pace of Star Wars is rapid fire for most of its hour and 57 minutes, and the script is filled with a verbal and visual wit that has been rare in Hollywood movies since the screwball comedies of the «30s.

Not long ago I had the pleasure of working with Adrian, * a visual artist with a quick wit, easygoing spirit, and creative eye.

Research done by researchers from the Wits School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, partly done at the Monte Casino Bird Gardens in Johannesburg, has shown that puff adders not only camouflage themselves with their highly evolved visual camouflage, but they are also difficult to find by smell.

All the wit in Brent Simons and Alan J. Schoolcraft's script is matched by the sort of painstaking visual ingenuity that makes most live - action production seem lazy with cynicism.

But obviously the real stars are the hundreds of artists and technicians who get this story told with so much visual accuracy and wit.

Nourizadeh, working with a script by Max Landis, plays Mike's bloody violence like visual guitar riffs, and approaches the martial - arts set pieces with heavily underlined wit.

Oddly enough, the wit is still there, but this time it's in the form of homages, both visual and aural, hearkening you back to the 70s schlock action cinema, full of revenge plots, martial arts gusto, and bad - ass mamas who aren't afraid to tussle with the big boys.

With an irreverent wit, a group of anti-hero characters who hated everyone as much as they loved themselves banding together to save the galaxy, and a bright, extravagant visual palette that popped in a way that directly opposed the bland, grey tones of the rest of the MCU, the first Guardians was lightning in a bottle that would be impossible to capture twice.

Lacking, too, is the visual wit that made Mary Harron's American Psycho adaptation so scabrously entertaining, leaving us instead with little more than the depressing sight of a hairy James Corden snorting copious amounts of coke before taking an unmourned early bath.

Like its predecessor, «Paddington 2» is a clever delight of visual invention and wit; this sequel draws particularly from the films of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton for its ingenious slapstick action set pieces, while the screenplay by director Paul King and Simon Farnaby packs the dialogue with fun wordplay and tiny details that pay off in major comic ways.

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The visuals are stunning and unnerving in equal measure, the dialogue balances sharp wit with surreally detached reflection; it is overwhelming, tender, funny and, at times, horribly sad.

As outlined in GameSpot's review, Little King's Story is filled with gorgeous visuals, epic boss battles, and layers of subtle wit and cross-cultural references.

But Baumbach handles this potentially groan - worthy material with verbal and visual wit, the effervescent snappiness that's become his signature.

Hitch liked to play cat and mouse with the audience, to entice us with wit, gloss and visual flair, then slyly expose our delusions and hypocrisies.

Sumptuously appointed even while being critical of class hierarchy, these films — all made with the same corps of collaborators, including the charmingly impetuous star Odette Joyeux — endure as a testament to the quick wit and exquisite visual sense of the director whose name they established.

Big Hero 6 (Disney, Blu - ray, DVD, VOD) is an adaptation of a Marvel Comics title but the filmmakers thoroughly transform it into a Disney feature, complete with issues of loss and family at the center of the creation of a student superhero team, with the spark of Pixar in its visual invention and knowing wit.

In his review from earlier this year, our own A.A. Dowd praised the film's impeccable casting and charming verve, stating, «Baumbach handles this potentially groan - worthy material with verbal and visual wit, the effervescent snappiness that's become his signature.»

Armed with nothing like innovation or intelligence at the script level, Kim lards The Last Stand with several inspired visual gags that culminate in a chase through a cornfield and one frozen, bird's - eye shot that gifts the film with a kind of wit it doesn't deserve.

All that said, this is a satisfying film that takes its characters but not itself seriously, and mixes sequences of wonder, visual wit and pathos in with the world - building and dramatic housekeeping.

The martial arts sequences are genuinely impressive, with Key and Peele director Peter Atencio giving moments such as a terrible action remake of Huckleberry Finn real visual style and wit.

Any movie with the sense, the wit and the visual instincts to introduce Kong the way this one does is fine with me.

I think this is a film for people that do nt like art cinema Its all very visual and cut skillfully with requisite tied up in a bow ending but it has little of the wit of the much superrior «Read my lips» Which this is very much a companion piece as for the acting Marion does needy again and Matthias doe lovable brute... no stetch then its a decent film and you almost want to visit waterworld ooops own goal for Greenpeace

The film, which combines hypnotic digressions into visual poetry with bellicose wit and the youthful energy of abandon and excess, won her a Special Jury award for her directing approach at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival earlier in the year.

< br / > Fans who bring home the Ultimate Cinematic Universe Edition (4K Ultra HD + Blu - ray + Digital) of «Thor: Ragnarok» will experience all the thunderous action and lightning - fast wit in stunning 4K Ultra HD with next - generation high dynamic range (HDR) visuals and Dolby Atmos immersive audio.

Fans who bring home the 4K Ultra HD + Blu - ray version of «Thor: Ragnarok» will experience all the thunderous action and lightning - fast wit in stunning 4K Ultra HD with next - generation high dynamic range (HDR) visuals and Dolby Atmos immersive audio.

Bursting with a rich blend of timely themes, superb voice work, wonderful visuals and laugh - out - loud wit, Walt Disney Animation Studios» «Zootopia» is quite simply a great time at the movies.

Infotainment options — Apple CarPlay wit Mini Radio Visual Boost + MINI Navigation; Wired Package and 360 watt Harmon Kardon Hi - Fi Speaker System with 12 speakers, and an eight - channel digital amplifier.

3 hr., 3 cassettes or 4 CDs Author and illustrator Tomie dePaola narrates this story of his childhood in suburban Connecticut in the 1930's with the same wit, flair, and charm that characterize his visual art.

Rationing supplies and your own wits as you try to figure out how to stay alive, with unnerving visuals and audio that will mess with your mind, choosing to be stealthy and plan safe sleep havens or go in guns blazing and rely on drugs to keep you awake and alive.

Cohen notes «At first [Westfall's] compositions strike the viewer as well - behaved structures of pattern with decorative correlates in the applied arts... But his visual wit goes beyond mere reference to recent abstract art history.

The scenes portrayed with wit and cleverly concise absurdity are less the result of a voyeuristic perspective than an attention to self - representations, roles, fantasies, and desires in everyday life, and which naturally includes the (visual) relationship between man and woman.

Selected group exhibitions include After The Thrill has Gone (Richmond Center for Visual Arts, Virginia, 2016), Re (as) ssisting Narratives (Framer Framed, Amsterdam, 2016), International Short Film Festival (Oberhausen, 2016), When Tomorrow Comes (Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg; Michaelis Galleries, Cape Town, 2015), DIS / PLACE (MoCADA, Brooklyn, 2015), AFIRIperFOMA (Lagos, 2015); What Remains is Tomorrow (South African Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2015), La Fabrique (De L'Homme Moderne, in association with the Lyon Biennale, La Fabric, 2015), Solomon Foundation for Contemporary Art (2015), Foreign Bodies (WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town, 2015), Broken English (Tyburn Gallery, London, 2015), Brave New World... 20 Years of Democracy (Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, 2014),!

Chefs including Jeremy Lieb, Julie Francis, and Stephen Williams use nonpareil ingredients such as fiddlehead ferns, Périgord truffles, and squid - ink fromage blanc to match wits with avant - garde visual artists.

Created with the wit and character of Mr. Power's complex yet simple visual language, it's an exhibition that should resonate with almost anyone.

The first project to explore the visual art, poetry and music of one of America's most inventive yet under - recognized contemporary Native American artists, this exhibition will survey Cannon's highly productive but short career; his development of a unique and hybrid visual vocabulary; and his combination of irony and wit with a reverence for community and tradition to interrogate American history and popular culture; as well as the issues wrought by colonialism, hegemony, and historical amnesia — all through his Native lens.

Teeming with wit, visual energy and old - style bohemian camaraderie, the Brucennial, which is free to the public, seems perfectly attuned to today's 99 - percent moment.

Of special note are two concurrent exhibitions, one by the Romanian artist Geta Brătescu, which in its way shows a variant methodology for combining classicism with cartooning, deploying humor and a stylized visual wit; and another showing never - before seen latter - day works on paper by the iconic Louise Bourgeois.

A tireless visual inventor and improviser, Robert Rauschenberg fused figuration and abstraction just as he married so many other loving couples, from painting and sculpture to performance and installation to art and technology — with wit and ease.