With its slick cast and plot, it looks promising.
Again, no big names here, but a highly professional and slick cast work their way through some tricky material, which could easily be played for melodrama or cheap laughs but somehow strikes the right balance.
And while Vinyl had all the stylish trappings of a win (the billions-of-dollars-in-licensing-fees soundtrack! The slick cast! Baby Mick Jagger!), the hotly anticipated series made one grave mistake.
Larson's ambition was to marry rock and roll to an up-to-the-minute Broadway-musical form, and this show, which has an orchestra of four and a slick, hardworking cast of three, shows him trying to adjust his goals to economic reality.
Choreographer Lorin Latarro, who worked on the immersive theater sensation, "Queen of the Night," was brought in to give the cast slick moves, while Jessie Nelson ("I Am Sam") provided the book.
Owing as much to silent comedy as to demolition derbies, this fast, slick, silly tale casts Mr. Chan, an amiable daredevil, as Jackie, the co-host of a cooking show who finds himself caught between two warring gangs in Melbourne, Australia, because he has come to the aid of a damsel in distress.
The director, Wilson Milam, crafts a slick package, and his cast plays a buoyant game of badminton with the occasionally witty dialogue.
"Ocean's Chapter 11" George Clooney and Julia Roberts head an all-star cast of slick burglars who go to elaborate lengths to break into the safes at Donald Trump's Atlantic City casinos, only to find them empty.
Supersaturated Cibachromes and slick, large-format Polaroids cast a neon glow over the monochromatic auras Kasten presents in her more reserved prints.
Thanks to some slick lens work and a cast on cracking form, Lee proves (perhaps above all to himself?) that playing it straight is not always a bad thing".
He has become the leading candidate for president with the help of a slick marketing campaign that has cast him as a populist friend of the poor.
