Adam McKay's maybe best know for directing Anchorman, Step Brothers, and other vehicles for Will Ferrell to "yes and" his way through another comedy, but the auteur has decided to tackle something a little more weighty this time around—a star-studded drama about the 2008 financial crisis based on Michael Lewis's book, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine.
Your body will be even wobblier, your obligations weightier, and time running out more ruthlessly on the gaudiest of your plans.
Those humdrum scenes become weighty markers in time: a wrenching study of before, during and after.
The results were inspiring: a weighty and at times emotional exchange on issues ranging from AIDS to media freedom and violence against children.
The effect is light and weighty at the same time.
Screen International praised the film for being "both breezy and weighty at the same time", though Variety's critic felt it reduced "an immensely disturbing... tale to a series of cartoonish vignettes".
Astronomers have studied many black holes at either size extreme — "stellar-mass" black holes, which are a few dozen times as weighty as the sun, and supermassive black holes, which can contain millions or billions of times the mass of the sun and lurk at the heart of most, if not all, galaxies.
Thankfully, these weighty inquiries are at times lightened by Vanhöfen's sense of humor.
Some young provocateurs wither as the shock value of their work subsides over time and weightier emotions demand to be heard.
Perhaps the weightiest phrase in "The Time Machine," the most disclosive of Wells's ambition and method, is the innocuous-looking "even now".
