It's the perfect cocktail for an enjoyably awful blockbuster movie.
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Its characters are enjoyably silly in their pretensions and eccentricities.
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Horror doesn't get more unhinged and enjoyably adrenaline-fueled than this.
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That makes for an enjoyably slow buildup to an unexpected ending.
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By 9:15, things have become enjoyably frayed at the edges.
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Its case in her defense is somewhat persuasive and enjoyably anachronistic.
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It is good because it is superbly well-written and enjoyably organised.
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So, pleasure might not only help us to live more enjoyably, but longer.
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The choreography plays enjoyably with the game's silky grace, relay action and formations.
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There are two controllers, which attach through an enjoyably solid magnetic rail system.
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This works easily for family spending on philanthropy (and, less enjoyably, property taxes).
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The performance, which you can see below, is typically urgent and enjoyably grubby.
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There is no other way to enjoyably commingle in tight quarters with so many people.
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The toxic chemistry between mother and son has seldom been more effectively or enjoyably rendered.
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The toxic chemistry between mother and son has seldom been more effectively or enjoyably rendered.
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In just 30 seconds, you can enjoyably consume a viral video or a few Facebook stories.
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Their screens are already sharp enough and bright enough to watch movies and view photos enjoyably.
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But, "theme" might be generous, as its appeal, for me, was how enjoyably meaningless it all was.
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By which I mean they are enjoyably frustrating, comfortably confusing—echoes of the point-and-click past.
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There's something different about Toronto (Canadians, for one), which despite its glitz remains enjoyably down to earth.
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But with that understanding, Beyond Skyline becomes an enjoyably loopy thrill-ride, full of sudden shifts and turns.
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Elaine Sciolino is a graceful, companionable writer, someone who speaks about France in the most enjoyably American way.
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Those are some heavy hills to fight and die on, but the series tackles them skillfully and enjoyably.
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"Girl, Woman, Other" is a warm, humorous and ambitious novel, and one that is enjoyably playful in style.
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A mesmerist and minor magician, he incurs the wrath of a sullen count (an enjoyably villainous Brian Bock).
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Battery life and audio quality is typically good enough that I can listen to music and podcasts quite enjoyably.
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The Israeli director Shemi Zarhin, who also wrote the screenplay, shuffles these modern problems into an enjoyably human mystery.
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By Episode 3, "Wrecked" is what it wants to be: An enjoyably mindless comedy well suited to the carefree months.
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The scares are plentiful and sometimes ticklishly funny in "The Curse of La Llorona," an enjoyably old-fashioned ghost story.
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Everyone in this ballet carries on, enjoyably, as if fate were flinging them together; one tragically rapturous embrace follows another.
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Few can rearrange the world as artfully and as enjoyably as the Incredibles, except of course their creator Brad Bird.
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After all, video games would seem to offer plenty of raw material for great — or at least enjoyably entertaining — movies.
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Predictions are rightly constrained by a sense of probabilities; scenarios can leap enjoyably beyond that, to explore all sorts of possibilities.
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Ranking explanation This is another enjoyably unpleasant story, and a darkly fun twist on the deal-with-the-devil morality tale.
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Where the masa would be, Mr. López makes a sweet, enjoyably gummy mash of green plantains, taro root and kabocha squash.
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As a consequence "Victoria" looks appropriately and enjoyably regal but only fitfully feels stirring enough to expand on the genre's loyal core.
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Surely, no one would need an explainer on one of the most enjoyably surface-level sci-fi analogies of all time, right?
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Editors, most enjoyably the legendary Walter Murch, tear the scene down to its building blocks to examine the meaning of each frame.
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For Taylor, the character of Mark Followill was an enjoyably quirky buffoon whose fabulism could not for a moment be taken seriously.
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All of this is to say that Waze with Android Auto works as simply and as enjoyably as it does on cellphones.
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The first game was solid in combat and enjoyably wacky with its plot, meaning that the second could be a confidently spooky experience.
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You are the sign of the twins, and things are indeed done better (or at least, more easily and more enjoyably) in pairs.
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But I felt like I needed something enjoyably bad to end my day on, rather than the anxiety-inducing nightmare of Yoga Hosers.
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After satisfying that curiosity (but absolutely nothing else), we were craving an enjoyably bad movie in the vein of Wing Commander or Doom.
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A "crunchy, tattered and enjoyably odd" album, it consists of tracks that he recorded in his bedroom at the tender age of 18.
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One of the givens of "Fast and Furious" is that the latest movie will be bigger and more enjoyably ludicrous than the last.
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Mr. McDonagh, our foremost practitioner of the Irish gothic, spins an enjoyably unsightly tale of mother and daughter, no sash or tiara required.
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Fran, who may be the best behaved boyfriend ever, tells Hannah that he thinks there is such a thing as an enjoyably chill wedding.
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The anarchists and blood-crazed mob are absent from the attractive biographical movie "Colette," which takes a light, enjoyably fizzy approach to its subject.
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We also commend Lulu for choosing her own path and taking life by leash, hopefully leading her to much safer and more enjoyably lackadaisical pastures.
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Except for a video showing someone modeling sneakers underwater, from the ankles down, the works in this enjoyably mystifying show have a decidedly scruffy appearance.
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I interviewed him several times over the years, most recently (and most enjoyably, personally) on camera for Noisey as part of my British Masters series.
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But it is enjoyably eclectic, borrowing from disco, jazz, rock and folk, with a shout-out to Tchaikovsky in a "Swan Lake"-ish murder ballet.
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This enjoyably chilling suspense tale by Gytha Lodge conveys both the thrills and the dangers of being a teenager on the brink of adult independence.
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The Jumper, once upgraded, takes the sting out of a lot of acrobatic bonus pickups that would otherwise be mostly annoying, instead of just enjoyably challenging.
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It hovers on a beautiful borderline for viewers: real enough for us to care, but stylized enough to let us stand, enjoyably, at a distance, judging.
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Mostly, it went down fast, a pace that Mr. Spielberg conveys with accelerated rhythms, flying feet, racing cameras and an enjoyably loose approach to the material.
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Assistant promised to create a "personal Google" for everyone on earth that would help them find information, get things done, and live life more efficiently and enjoyably.
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Each one was a badge of honour, a proof that he and Lucha (Luc and Lucha, their names so enjoyably close) were getting on the government's nerves.
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By the time Holt is galloping through flames and Vandevere is threatening to kill Dumbo's mom — matricide being a studio signature — the movie has gone enjoyably bonkers.
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But it clarified as it went along and became an enjoyably outlandish study in the secrets we all keep from one another, including those closest to us.
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The new Bluetooth M240s hew pretty close to that formula, but they relax the sound just enough to be enjoyably lively rather than astringent and in your face.
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Chris Hemsworth gets a haircut and brings out Thor's funny side, while Mark Ruffalo shows up as a more articulate (but still enjoyably angry) version of the Hulk.
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The visual fidelity is frankly stunning considering you're working with a completely untethered connection, and it's good enough that you can watch YouTube and other videos very enjoyably.
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It's set in the late 1970s and uses an enjoyably garish soundtrack and a muted palette that is practically devoid of colors to help capture a grindhouse feel.
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It begins with Galifianakis talking to fellow comedian Jerry Seinfeld before Cardi B abruptly enters and the whole thing goes enjoyably to shit in the show's distinct style.
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In her review for The Times, Janet Maslin commended Moore for being "so enjoyably unflappable that you sometimes have to look closely to make sure he's still breathing."
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"Overindulging will leave you feeling sluggish and likely with a few extra pounds, but if you know how to eat smartly, you can still eat enjoyably," she said.
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All three are great at spitting out hard-boiled dialogue, and the case they investigate in the pilot (the only episode ABC screened for critics) is enjoyably scruffy.
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Brian Truitt, USA Today: While Ant-Man's technically "the star," this is most definitely the Wasp's movie to own, and the smirking, enjoyably no-nonsense role fits Lilly well.
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Watching Infinity War for the first time was an exercise in being enjoyably stressed out, until the snap came along and punched me in my stupid, hero-loving face.
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The episode is now perhaps better remembered for its final reveal — Buffy's brand new sister — but it's an enjoyably lighthearted kickoff to an ambitious season of TV. — TV 22.
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Yet it's an enjoyably absurd diversion, and provides some digital retribution perhaps for those of us who still cringe over Le Corbusier's mural defacement of Eileen Gray's E.1027.
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But in "Argo," he was also embedded in that movie's enjoyably loony complications and upstaged by a couple of world-class scene-stealers in Alan Arkin and John Goodman.
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"Few can rearrange the world as artfully and as enjoyably as the Incredibles, except of course their creator Brad Bird," Manohla Dargis wrote in her review for The Times.
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Mr. Dyer, as the surly top thug, and Mr. Freeman, as his fretful second banana, enjoyably elicit the music-hall rhythms of these squabbling criminals, without milking the laughs.
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I love it but as always... it doesn't give anything major away but it does show things that are most enjoyably seen for the first time in the movie.
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Another friend (male, bisexual), says that—for him—big dick energy is personified by someone "quiet" who would "still happily and enjoyably turn my spine into pâté"— life's rich tapestry.
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It's funny, scary, enjoyably weird (especially in an extended song-sequence involving Flight of the Conchords' Jemaine Clement as an immense evil crab), and as heartfelt as Disney movies get.
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It's an enjoyably meandering compendium of tics, references, and themes (particularly religion, fate, and the movies) culled from their impressive canon and marshaled into a surprisingly coherent, curiously haunting whole.
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I'd have thought that supporting the execution or mass incarceration of women by the millions would put a writer, even one capable of enjoyably caustic prose, well outside those boundaries.
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For the sake of enjoyably bingeing the series, we'll be giving a brief rundown of each season 2 episode, including exactly what the episode uncovered and who the episode focused on.
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This straight-faced but enjoyably silly film deals with fame, power, and celebrity impersonations It's actually a good thing that the filmmakers behind Elvis & Nixon don't take their story too seriously.
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The new film, with its boiler-suited, funny and very capable women is meant as a seismic shift too—but ends up more as an enjoyably forgettable goofball of a film.
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Jeff Grace's wonderfully expressive musical score adds the urgency the plot lacks, and John Travolta, playing a hard-nosed marshal who intuits Paul's traumatic past, has rarely been this enjoyably commanding.
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The Prisoner is meant to be consumed just as enjoyably outside of mealtimes as it is next to a medium-rare duck breast, and has a sense of pleasure for pleasure's sake.
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The small handful of thoughtful moments are far outshined by the show's much stronger focus on steamy hook-ups and romantic drama, and all of it makes for enjoyably pulpy TV watching.
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"What critics said: "Jonah's finding a strong dynamic with the Bots, the riffs are tighter, and the shorter episode order allows for a more eclectic (if uneven) batch of enjoyably bad movies.
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Menu items like the scorching hot chicken wings, dusted with Szechuan peppercorns and chilies, are an enjoyably mouth-numbing experience; so are the chewy green tea noodles, which will caffeinate your appetite.
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The MacBook Air's screen is sharp, bright, and colorful enough to enjoyably watch Netflix and browse photos, and the viewing angles are wide enough to comfortably share your screen with another person.
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After his enjoyably rigorous lecture on macroeconomics, Mr Groom's second taste of his department comes from Ha-Joon Chang, author of popular books such as "23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism".
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Chief executive Ruediger Grube explained in Thursday's WirtschaftsWoche that the logic for the move was that Deutsche Bahn was already promoting its services as allowing passengers to use their travel time productively or enjoyably.
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The supporting cast and their subplots are woven in expertly — my favorite are the struggles of Tom (Joe Hurst), Joy and Alan's high school–aged son, whose efforts to find a girlfriend are enjoyably awkward.
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And although it would be giving far too much away to say exactly how, it's a change, written with Thompson's typical verve and gusto, that's as unlikely and outlandish as it is utterly, enjoyably convincing.
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Set in the years after 1205, it enjoyably wields the weapons of wuxia—traditional martial-arts fiction, with its spectacular combat and pauses for philosophy—to show Chinese identity under threat from foreign and domestic foes.
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"They're different weighted balls that [women] can use to exercise your pelvic floor and your kegel muscles in order to strengthen those muscles and be able to use them more enjoyably during sex," Mistress Couple explains.
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I realize there's a rich history of season-ending cliffhangers on TV. But as with the Glenn thing, I think the story and in this case, Negan's otherwise enjoyably malicious debut, is overshadowed by the trickery.
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There are plenty of moments in season three when the Hawkins gang and their ability to problem-solve gets a little eyebrow-raising, but if anything, that just makes the season a little more enjoyably silly.
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Working with a larger budget, Vaughn and co-writer Jane Goldman build their own enjoyably cartoonish world, including a secret headquarters in a towering distillery and a 1950s-style small-town Main Street hidden among Cambodian ruins.
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One (as in the beer named One) was an enjoyably crisp, golden, medium-strength lager-esque drink, while Two was a slightly lighter version that is also bottled and sold in many other places around the city.
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It's a little rough at the moment, with lengthy delays between fouls and restarts as one of the tiny outfields runs offscreen to retrieve the ball, and the aftertouch isn't as enjoyably exaggerated as the game's spiritual predecessors.
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As befuddled as Jong-su is, the viewer might well believe that they have a handle on "Burning" at this stage: the film seems to have coalesced into an enjoyably awkward romantic comedy about a maddening love triangle.
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And when in doubt, Stiller and his team rely on cameos, from an enjoyably ridiculous opening bit involving Justin Bieber to a tedious climax featuring various real-world fashion icons, shot separately and awkwardly integrated into the same scene.
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Mr. McBurney, who does McIntyre's voice as that of a strapping stoic from a cowboy film, sustains the momentum of his story as tensely and enjoyably as if it were a Rudyard Kipling yarn, albeit of a postcolonial ilk.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson is a cultural fixture; you can find him on the talk show circuit, geeking out over "Titanic" and "Game of Thrones" and clapping back on Twitter, where imitators have poked fun at his enjoyably pompous manner.
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The denizens at Harry's bar — a sheeplike herd of enjoyably varied bleats — include an ineffectual policeman (David Lansbury), and three wilting barflies (Billy Carter, Richard Hollis and John Horton) who are drawn to the place by its owner's notoriety.
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After all, the modern summer blockbuster season is rooted in Jaws, which rewrote the rules of the movie calendar back in the summer of 1975, and enjoyably dumb shark movies have been around right up through 2016's The Shallows.
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For Stone, who directed such enjoyably cuckoo '90s polemics as JFK and Nixon, as well as more (relatively) straightforward current-events films as W. and World Trade Center, Snowden is the latest in a long line of politically minded films.
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David Bowie may have turned in impressive performances in Labyrinth and The Man Who Fell To Earth, but his first ever movie role was starring in The Image, a 13-minute short film that's most charitably described as enjoyably bad.
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Yet what keeps Kingsman's wilder impulses in check, and what makes it such an enjoyably electric experience, is the way it offsets its vulgarity with a distinctly British appeal to manners, competence, selflessness, tact, and propriety — when it's called for.
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"His Kind of Woman" (Friday), with Mitchum as a gambler who is lured to Mexico as a sap, and the auteur purée "Macao" (Thursday), on which Nicholas Ray took over for Josef von Sternberg, are both enjoyably overstuffed Howard Hughes productions.
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Some science-fiction novel that went by pretty quickly and enjoyably, though my brother took it back to the library before I could write down the title and, of course, I forgot the plot beyond space war and math. 7.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads TOULOUSE, France — The tipsy rapture experienced when in close contact with fine timeworn vanitas seems to stem from the discord felt between enjoyably empathizing with the ultimate barrenness that awaits us, and apprehending that barrenness.
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Available on: YouTube The Jewel in the Crown Enjoyably vicious, somewhat overripe soap opera about the members of the British Raj in India during World War II. The most vivid characters here are all rotters: racist, snobby, drunk, self-loathing and kinky.
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There was cult comedy Mystery Men to skewer a superhero movie trend that hadn't even begun yet, or you could dart over to the screen next door for The Thomas Crown Affair, an enjoyably adult, sexy remake of an art heist film.
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"His Kind of Woman" (Friday), with Mitchum (above, with Jane Russell) as a gambler lured to Mexico as a sap, and the auteur purée "Macao" (Thursday), on which Nicholas Ray took over for Josef von Sternberg, are enjoyably overstuffed Howard Hughes productions.
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"Mary Poppins Returns," which picked up four Oscar nominations last week, is an enjoyably derivative film that seeks to inspire our nostalgia for the innocent fantasies of childhood, as well as the jolly holidays that the first "Mary Poppins" film conjured for many adult viewers.
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While brooding over Hargreeves' death, the siblings each find relief in dancing to Tiffany's "I Think We're Alone Now" by themselves, in an enjoyably goofy sequence that culminates in a striking shot of the mansion as if it were a dollhouse the viewers are peering into.
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Perhaps less enjoyably for American listeners, however, there's also a surprising number of mid-2000s British indie bands appearing as guests, including the Kaiser Chiefs and the Maccabees — making AM/PM feel a little like the kind of show the NME would put on around 2008.
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Though it's full of enjoyably hammy, artificially futuristic sounds (tracks like "Out Of My Head" and "Unlock It" are the sonic equivalent of what you see when you type "Y2K" into Depop), Pop 20193 genuinely provides a groundbreaking conceptual blueprint for the possibilities of mainstream(-ish) pop.
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Pitt is direly blank in Meet Joe Black, both as an unnamed young man who has meet-cutes with Claire Forlani and some motor vehicles, and as the incarnation of Death who takes over his body (the movie is not nearly as enjoyably weird as this makes it sound).
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Ms. Dorrance handles multiple areas of the stage admirably and enjoyably (women slide along a horizontal corridor at the back, small groups tap on small surfaces near the front); the sheer changes of dance texture (the five women are in point shoes, then in heeled tap shoes) provide plenty of internal variety.
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Kybele Dance Theater's "Neo Noir" enjoyably evoked a Dashiell Hammett world of murder and betrayal; Mr. Brown's "Box" told the tale of a slave who mailed himself from captivity to freedom; a film excerpt from Janet Roston's "Anaïs, a Dance Opera," incorporated dance, song and projections in recounting the life of the writer Anaïs Nin.
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As usual, the Netflix series -- presumably one of its most popular, despite the service's stinginess about backing up such assumptions -- starts slowly, proceeds along parallel tracks (three pretty distinct ones, in this case) and gradually comes together, yielding an enjoyably derivative eight-episode binge that's plenty of fun, if probably not worthy of all the hype and fuss.
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Most of the works in the show, as with the waggish paintings of Alex Morrison (that evoked the dancing mushrooms in Walt Disney's 83 trip-friendly film Fantasia), Sylvie Fleury's trite fiberglass sculptures, Ghislaine Leung's night lamp "Shrooms" (2016) and Carsten Holler's "Untitled" (2015) perforated digital print, enjoyably depict the impish phallic/hat form that defines a mushroom.
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Instead, you use an enjoyably straightforward trade system to provide bonuses to your empire, you appoint government officials and provincial governors and try and check to make sure they remain competent and well-intentioned, and try and sand away the friction generated by your conquered populations (most often by clicking a button to instantly convert them to your culture and faith).
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The entire plot is intentionally (and enjoyably) convoluted, at one point trying hard to sell the movie as about a viral outbreak — but at the heart of the story is the revelation that the conservatory's director, Anton (Steven Weber), has used the school as a front for his horrific rapes of students, in a system of exploitation that has existed within his family for generations.
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So you'll want to make some space on the couch for rewatching last night's season-three premiere, "2 Chainz," as it's one of the series' most enjoyably breezy yet: A shaggy-dog tale that finds Ilana and Abbi traversing New York City in search of a bathroom, and finding instead a never-ending array of weirdos, from porn-watching truck-drivers to brawling sample-sale shoppers to dong-obsessed artists.
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"I dreamed I went back to study in Cardiff but skipped lectures to go to matches," he admitted, and he stays up into the early hours to watch them play on TV. Although it's concerning to hear about yet another example of freedom of expression being quashed in the arts in China, having a hugely heartfelt Mandarin-language song about a mid-ranking Premier League team is an enjoyably quirky consolation.
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In addition to the basic intra-Britain antipathy, there was increased scrutiny of the behavior of fans after violence earlier in the tournament; heightened anxiety about England's chances for advancement after Slovakia handled Russia, 2-1, on Wednesday; and, most enjoyably, a rousing discussion about the relative passions (and abilities) of both teams after Bale stoked the embers by opining that no one from the England team would be fit to play for Wales.
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