On screen his "relentless root-canal humorlessness turns what might have been an enjoyable B-picture throwback into a ponderous drag," Mr. Scott wrote in The Times.
But Mr. Costner's relentless, root-canal humorlessness turns what might have been an enjoyable B-picture throwback into a ponderous drag.
Five was launched in 1997 after a decade-long gestation, and pitched, like a throwback, into an era of digital television; its German-based owner RTL has made no secret of its desire to sell off the UK's weakest terrestrial channel.
Saturday, Mark Reedy and his son, Dan, put on their Nick Markakis throwback jerseys, climbed into a Jeep and left their Baltimore home for the seven-and-a-half-hour drive to Fenway Park.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — As the Jets' pregame warm-up began on Sunday at Giants Stadium, with the blue and yellow throwback uniforms falling into tidy lines, the four running backs assembled for a meeting.
Manolakos's version does what covers ought to do; it picks up a song that has sunken into throwback territory, dusts it off, and treats it like a classic.
Asked about his boss's word preferences, Eric Fehrnstrom, a veteran Romney adviser, responded knowingly: "You mean like 'gosh, golly, darn'?" For Democratic strategists, Mr. Romney's throwback vocabulary feeds into their portrayal of a man ill-equipped for the mores and challenges of the modern age.
Like Martin Scorsese's Hugo, which also featured a young boy at large in an automated world, Jeunet's poignantly playful film uses self-conscious/aware 3D as a mechanical throwback – a way into a lost world of machines (and situations), the complex workings of which are always on view.
The film's release Friday by Warner Bros. spells not just a risk for a Hollywood studio wading into the throwback waters of a character-driven family tale, but a gamble for its director and lead actor, each of whom makes a notable departure from his comfort zone.
Much of the production's throwback charm is built into the 1940s setting of the show, which centers on Carter, whom audiences first met in "Captain America: The First Avenger," and a supporting cast of characters who share Carter's passion for protecting the world from danger.
In fact, it turned out to be something of a first-world-war throwback, with human waves walking into banks of machinegun, tank and artillery fire.
