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Confidently cinematic in classical and modern terms, layered with subtleties but also a straight - ahead, crowd - pleasing comedy, with more witty lines and bits of visual imagination than a dozen regular movies, O Brother is where thou shouldst be.

Made for only $ 9 million, and released in the summer of 2004 the week after The Bourne Supremacy, as rib - nudging counter-programming to the seriousness of both The Manchurian Candidate and M. Night Shyamalan's The Village, New Line's raunchy, pot - driven teen comedy Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle may be one of the more simultaneously unlikely and inspired movies to spawn a spin - off in the past decade - plus.

Though the movie could have easily crossed the line into purely mocking its subjects, Franco and company maintain an underlying empathy for the film's characters, offering key breaks from the comedy that force viewers to question what they've been chuckling at all along, allowing the film and Wiseau himself to ultimately channel sarcastic laughter into genuine love.

ITV4 broadcasts a compelling line up of challenging drama; comedy that pushes boundaries; and movies that won't stick to the mainstream.

Dorsey's movie career ranges from heavy drama (WALK THE LINE), to lighthearted family comedy (JUST LIKE HEAVEN, Disney's GIRL VS. MONSTER, and the American Girl series MCKENNA SHOOTS FOR THE STARS), but her appearance in the Golden Globe ® and Academy Award ® nominated film MONEYBALL established her as a bona - fide star.

In acting categories, Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence scooped up an four nominations, for Best Actress, Best Actress in a Comedy and Best Acting Ensemble all for Silver Linings Playbook, while her turn as Katniss Everdeen also landed her a nomination for Best Actress in an Action Movie.

As a director, Vogt - Roberts has already demonstrated that he can help actors walk an incredibly rewarding line between drama and comedy, which should be useful considering the movie's potentially goofy set up (I'm aware Skull Island is a staple of cinematic history, but it sounds like a rejected proposal for a Disney Parks ride).

This movie was different in the fact that there was a well - written comedy, a great ensemble, and a heartfelt story line.

The movie, which is set in the 1920s, also stars Marcia Gay Harden, «Silver Linings Playbook» actress Jacki Weaver, and Hamish Linklater of the CBS comedy «The Crazy Ones.»

Gag after gag, line after line, there's no more unhinged comedy in the whole of American movies than this genius invention, crafted by director - screenwriters Jim Abrahams and brothers David and Jerry Zucker.

Danny Boyle doesn't usually make comedy movies, but that might not matter now that he's lining up a ringer for the 1960s - set «music - themed» comedy he's developing with writer Richard Curtis.

BLAZING SADDLES was the latest in a long line of cowboy comedies (CARRY ON COWBOY and CALAMITY JANE being other excellent examples), but not only did it send up the canon, it stepped out of the movie, literally breaking the fourth wall, and becomes a comedy about cinema, ALL THE WHILE tackling racism in a subversive, clever and, most importantly, funny way.

Maybe it's a more important movie than I realize, since romantic comedies have been following this line ever since.

Silver Linings is one of the most charming movies of the decade and a delightful throwback to the zany screwball romantic comedies of the «30s and «40s, a better tribute than the previous years Best Picture winner The Artist.

This summer we already have a handful of R - rated movies lined up including Tony Scott's remake of The Taking of Pelham 123, Michael Mann's Public Enemies, and the Todd Phillips comedy The Hangover, plus I'm assuming Halloween 2, Inglourious Basterds and Bruno will all fall into that category as well.

He had been rumoured for a while to be possibly directing a remake of Dario Argento's Suspiria, but he has since lined up a «fantasy comedy» with Danny McBride called Your Highness in addition to writing an animated series for Fox and a movie called Goat.

Its low - rent qualities make it for suitable for TV viewing, and it's entirely possible that down the line the film might gain more fans through showings on TV (this is begging for a movie slot on Comedy Central).

«I kept thinking of the tone of Working Title movies or «Silver Linings Playbook» or good romantic comedies, the ones that I've loved,» he said.

The movie is a superhero comedy and a 3D computer - animated film by director Chris McKay, and it is from the Lego Batman story toy line.

Also, the movie's main shortcoming is that it does not always walk the line between a satire and a screwball comedy, which may not appeal to casual fans of the Coen brothers and sometimes takes away from the clever dialogue.

But as the movie progresses, it picks up a head of steam and hurls itself to the other side of comedy, with lines that made me explode with laughter (there are plenty of memorable quotes to quote).

It takes a while for the main narrative through line to take shape, as a majority of the first act finds its «comedy» in montages of Amy, Kiki, and Carla trashing a grocery store or fawning over a Hollywood hunk while watching a movie.

As the movie walks a fine line between serious drama and satirical comedy, and between topicality and escapism, it beguiles the viewer with...

«Silver Linings Playbook» was a nicely played romantic comedy that was billed as something transgressive or progressive or whatever, but was actually hugely conventional, right down to the «the dance finals are on the same day as the Big Game» trope which I'm almost certain is the climax of at least three «Step Up» movies.

However, for those able to get onto this movie's wavelength, you will find a very rich comedy, moving along the lines of McDonagh's last feature, In Bruges, but taking up to a notch that involves masked assassins, serial killer killers and dog - loving gangsters.

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Rod Steiger's not particularly good, but he's real funny — the movie tries to be a comedy but Shanley wrote it, so it isn't funny... Alan Rickman has a little bit more fun, with only two really terrible lines, which is quite an achievement in this film.

Audiences may be divided over whether this comedy crosses the line as it looks for laughs in racism and homophobia, but the cast and crew just manage to keep the movie's heart in the right place.

Though the movie The Room was released almost exactly 13 years ago, Tommy Wiseau's dark comedy of errors lives on in infamy, immortalized through midnight screenings worldwide during which spoons are thrown, footballs are tossed and lines from the movie are shouted in packed theaters.

And yet, it works, not unlike The Fighter and Silver Linings Playbook, because we meet it halfway with our own awareness of the forebears Russell lightly subverts (whether underdog sports movies, screwball comedies or, now, Scorsese's American crime epics), and we're willing to fill in the blanks to enjoy trappings like Bale finessing Irving's «rather elaborate» combover or Lawrence yammering Rosalyn's way into getting what she wants.

The way in which McDormand delivers her lines or expresses so much emotion and humanity without even uttering a single word is as good as your going to see and her and McDonagh seem like a match made in movie making heaven as they collaborate together too make this heavy bleak drama / comedy a cut well above average.

Jennifer Lawrence won Best Actress last year for Silver Linings Playbook, but David O'Russell's ensemble piece was part - comedy, part - drama, as much a serious exploration of Themes and Issues as it was a dance movie.

The Critics» Choice Awards have lined up with the Oscars in six of the last seven Best Pictures, but it's worth noting that the Broadcast Film Critics Association spread the wealth around with genre awards to the other Oscar favorites, Gravity (Best Sci - Fi / Horror Movie) and American Hustle (Best Comedy).

It's the sort of movie Edgar Wright was born to make, so in line with his strengths as an action comedy director and fine purveyor of the genre arts.

And neither could the movie, which, in some ways, is less another «Grand Hotel,» and more in the line of Jean Renoir's great ensemble comedy - drama «The Rules of the Game.»

Cast: Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro Program: Gala Headline: Off The Meds, Crazy In Love Scott's Take: There's real crazy and there's movie crazy, and in Silver Linings Playbook, the broadly pleasing new David O. Russell comedy, the symptoms of the former are channeled into the latter, giving it an edge that Russell can buff out whenever the story demands it.

Reitman is at his best when there's a fine line being walked between comedy and drama as well as when satire is on his mind, so this is a movie right in his wheelhouse, especially considering the type of brutal satire that Chad Kultgen brilliantly traffics in.

You still have lines like, ``... with magic, motherf * cker» like all it takes for comedy is anachronistic vulgarity, which usually means a movie is going to really overshoot its mark.

The franchise's notoriety as a rebel among superhero movies makes it all the more cooler; Deadpool evolved comedies from a commercial standpoint, for the 20th Century Fox title easily made an estimated $ 53.3 M in its first day (that's including $ 18.6 M Thursday night previews), giving it the highest opening day for an R - rated movie, beating New Line / Warner Bros.» It ($ 50.4 M).

Most of the movie's dramatic thrust comes from his continual harassment of his secretary Alva (Maris Conchita Alonso), which treads the fine line between black comedy and genuinely disturbing.

Leave it to David O. Russell to create a romantic comedy as quirky, dark, funny and surprisingly touching as «Silver Linings Playbook,» because the movie is almost as crazy as its two leads.

Still, the movie, for those who do not need to draw clear lines between villainy and heroism, is a fascinating meld of shocking violence and familial tenderness, a black comedy featuring characters who flip from kindness to cruelty in the span of 20 seconds.

The supporting cast, as has been the custom for the series, is filled with either hunks, babes or actors with comedic talents, though it must be said that, even with the snarky Capt. Sparrow as the lead, it's not a particularly witty movie full of quotable lines or knee - slapping gags, which is a severe detriment in a film that plays up its comedy this much.

After successful collaborations with New Line on the hit comedies «Horrible Bosses» and «We're the Millers,» Jennifer Aniston is in early talks to star in the studio's upcoming movie «Mean Moms,» multiple individuals familiar with the project have told TheWrap.

Running throughout the pleasant - surprise teen comedy «Easy A» is a rib - tickling little gag whereby various characters quote memorable lines from quintessentially 1980s teen movies, from Hughes» «The Breakfast Club» and «Ferris Bueller's Day Off» to «The Outsiders» to «Say Anything.»

Presenting that bad movie feel early on and never shaking it, this joyless teen comedy fantasy perhaps will possess some camp value down the line.

The line between documentary and fictional comedy is flummoxed to trite ends in Ne Me Quitte Pas, a mockumentary buddy movie that revels in the often drunken antics of two withered men living together at the southern edge of Belgium.