Citations:smirkfest

English citations of smirkfest

• 2017 February 1, Gwilym Mumford, Andrew Pulver, Benjamin Lee, Lanre Bakare, “The films our critics walked out on: 'There was no way in hell I was going back in'”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

  Putting aside the two hours of the self-involved smirkfest that was Rian Johnson’s The Brothers Bloom, I can think of no better candidate than an obscure Peter Greenaway film I saw in 1993 called The Baby of Macon.

• 2014 January 1, Neil Daniels, Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers: A ZZ Top Guide, Soundcheck Books, →ISBN, page 67:

  ... smirkfest that feels oddly monochromatic, leading one to conclude that ZZ Top has its collective butt in a rut.” The Continental Safari Tour was launched at the Brixton Academy in London on 14 June 1996 and lasted for four legs and 91 […]

• 2008 December 1, Andrew O'Keefe, O'Keefe, Andrew, Steve Vizard, The Best Australian Humorous Writing, Melbourne Univ. Publishing, →ISBN, page 41:

  ... smirkfest they call the Liberal Party. For God's sake, Tony Abbott's in charge of women's health. Somebody, do something. guy rundle The right wing Hidden in the NBC archives Phwoarr, check out the policies on Julia Gillard 41.

• 2007 January 1, Howard Hampton, Born in Flames: Termite Dreams, Dialectical Fairy Tales, and Pop Apocalypses, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 50:

  ... smirkfest, playing a lesbian Dirty Harry type in Boys Are Easy (1993). The movie is stupefying (apocryphal rumor has it Wong will soon helm Ace Ventura: Enema Bandit for kindred soul Jim Carrey), but as the violent cop who goes […]

• 2013 January 21, Jack Hart, ... Life in a Northern Town: Small Places in a Big World. Big Worlds in Small Places., Trafford Publishing, →ISBN:

  ... smirkfest was all lost in that smirkiless instant. Her jawdropping paralyses eventually turned to dismay, as she nervously calledout to her mother to share inthe shock. She was a ways away, and the woman stumbled away looking.