Sentences with phrase «room as a comedy»

Did he intend The Room as a comedy or a drama?

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Any Premier League season starring Jose Mourinho, Diego Costa and Zlatan in the same locker room would be more entertaining than The Three Stooges — and probably contain twice as much slapstick comedy.

The film, which hits theaters February 16, is a modern twist on a romantic comedy (boy and girl meet, fall in love, but then break up, and are suddenly reunited, ending up in that awkward stage where they have to debate whether to wave hello while taking out the trash), but it's also a particularly female spin on the coming of age story, the likes of which we're only beginning to see onscreen as more women carve out a place for themselves in writer's rooms and director's chairs.

It can be as simple as in - room - dining by candlelight, to finding events to attend such as comedy shows, movies, plays, or free concerts.

I love music and often dance in my living room, love to cook for others when I have the time and absolutely love being out in nature as well as movies, comedy and the arts.

James Franco stars as mysterious mastermind (of sorts) Tommy Wiseau in «The Disaster Artist,» a sunny comedy about a misbegotten fruit of moviemaking, «The Room.»

Their developing friendship then goes on to form the heart of the film, helping to ground the movie's ample comedy with some genuinely affecting emotion here and there as tempers run high during the making of «The Room.»

As an uberfan of the so - bad - it's - good masterpiece The Room and a solid admirer of The Disaster Artist, The Room co-star Greg Sestero's tell - all book about the making of mysterious vampiric figure Tommy Wiseau's «Tennessee Williams style melodrama as told by an alien who has apparently never seen normal human beings interact» drama - turned - dark - comedy - after - initial - audience - reactions - full - of - howling - laughter, I was a bit reserved in my excitement when I found out that James Franco was going to direct the film adaptation, as well as portraying Wiseau himselAs an uberfan of the so - bad - it's - good masterpiece The Room and a solid admirer of The Disaster Artist, The Room co-star Greg Sestero's tell - all book about the making of mysterious vampiric figure Tommy Wiseau's «Tennessee Williams style melodrama as told by an alien who has apparently never seen normal human beings interact» drama - turned - dark - comedy - after - initial - audience - reactions - full - of - howling - laughter, I was a bit reserved in my excitement when I found out that James Franco was going to direct the film adaptation, as well as portraying Wiseau himselas told by an alien who has apparently never seen normal human beings interact» drama - turned - dark - comedy - after - initial - audience - reactions - full - of - howling - laughter, I was a bit reserved in my excitement when I found out that James Franco was going to direct the film adaptation, as well as portraying Wiseau himselas well as portraying Wiseau himselas portraying Wiseau himself.

Unsurprisingly, word - of - mouth hit Green Room won the Audience Award, followed by the Hungarian comedy - fantasy Liza The Fox Fairy, which I'm still kicking myself for missing and was not made available as a screener.

Shane Meadows» previous film «Once Upon a Time in the Midlands» (2002) was, as its title would suggest, an attempt to transplant the American western onto English soil — but the hybrid which emerged was a disappointing romantic comedy that almost ruined the director's reputation (carefully built upon the improvised do - it - yourself naturalism of his 1997 debut «Twenty Four Seven» and his 1999 follow - up «A Room for Romeo Brass»).

In Room (Grade: B), director Lenny Abrahamson's follow - up to the oddball music comedy Frank, Brie Larson plays a mother who's spent years locked away in a tool shed, a prisoner of the stranger who kidnapped her as a teenager.

Their ensuing black - comedy adventure is grimy, bloody, and ridiculous, as director Macon Blair (best known for his performances in Jeremy Saulnier's Blue Ruin and Green Room) pitches his material as an absurdist neo-noir saga about combatting existential despair.

James Franco directed and stars in this hilarious oddball comedy that tells the true story of Tommy Wiseau, a talentless actor and director who made «The Room,» regarded as one of the worst movies ever made.

It also provides a revisionist take on «The Room's» own transformation from failed Tennessee Williams knockoff to inadvertent comedy, recasting the film's long - delayed premiere as the moment the switch happened.

And Ralph Fiennes enlivens a couple of scenes as a refined gay director trying to direct a cowboy actor in a drawing - room comedy - the studio era described in a single sentence.

In the years since The Room was made, Wiseau has pulled an «I meant to do that» on its perceived shortcomings as drama; «Experience this quirky new black comedy, it's a riot!»

Franco directed and stars in this comedy about the making of The Room, a film so terrible it has deservedly been hailed as «the Citizen Kane of bad movies.»

Brooke, as played by Greta Gerwig in director Noah Baumbach's brilliant indie screwball comedy, Mistress America, is also a freelance interior decorator of at least one hip laser hair removal center waiting room, a plagiarized T - shirt designer, a writer of stories — not short stories, though — an aspiring SAT tutor, and maybe a cabaret singer too, sometimes.

Little brother Dave is charming but slightly unremarkable as Tommy's best friend Greg, and there's a solid supporting cast of Hollywood comedy talent including Franco's own BFF Seth Rogen, but as The Room was Wiseau's magnum opus, this is Franco's — everyone else is a bit player.

But unlike other dark comedies to make the jump («Mean Girls» director Mark Waters» «The House of Yes» comes to mind), Finley displays a natural cinematic instinct, treating the baroque, marble - lined mansion where the film principally unfolds not as a closed - in set, but a kind of tiger sanctuary, prowling the location in long, restless takes — whether it's stalking an SUV up the gravel driveway or lurking behind a door jam, carving knife in hand, while two characters stare each other down in the adjacent room.

It is in this house setting where Baumbach plays with fluidity of comedy, as characters venture off into different rooms to divulge secrets that come to play later.

Director Jack Perez, who previously directed the John Landis - produced Some Guy Who Kills People, cast Dante and Landis in cameo roles in Blast Vegas, and Landis even had an in - joke in the credits for his gangster comedy Oscar, in which Joe Dante is billed as Face on the Cutting Room Floor.

The Disaster Artist: This fact - based comedy, about two friends and the making of a self - financed movie in Los Angeles («The Room»), is the funniest movie in a year of funny movies, with James Franco, who also directed, as Tommy Wiseau, a bizarre and talentless actor who decides to write and direct his own starring vehicle.

As for the limited wiggle room that the public has given Sandler, his and Samberg's latest collaboration, the animated family horror comedy Hotel Transylvania, grossed more in its opening weekend than That's My Boy made in its entirety.

James Franco won Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy for his performance in The Disaster Artist as Tommy Wiseau, the real - life director, writer, and star of the so - bad - it's - good cult film The Room.

The Room fans watched the Golden Globes in awe as James Franco brought things full circle for Tommy Wiseau who came on stage during his emotional speech after winning Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical for The Disaster Artist.

Friday, July 25 «Archer» Fox Booth Signing Press Room: 3:30 p.m. — 4:30 p.m. Panel: 5 p.m. — 6 p.m.: Screening and Q&A: «Archer» is an animated comedy that revolves around the International Secret Intelligence Service (ISIS) and its employees who use every covert operation and global crisis as another excuse to undermine, sabotage and betray each other for personal gain.

Although The Disaster Artist maintains a great reverence for The Room, the film can be seen as a funny comedy about how such true - to - life absurdities can be a catalyst for such a terrible yet mesmerising piece of art.

Bart Got a Room (PG - 13 for sexuality, mature themes and brief profanity) Coming - of - age comedy about a nerdy high school senior (Steven Kaplan) whose search for a prom date becomes increasingly desperate as the big night draws nearer.

Tsui sets his avoidance dances in confined spaces (tiny apartments, backstage dressing rooms), but To's are set out in the open: a fountain in a public park, a street corner, a sidewalk (a similarly choreographed scene plays out as well early in Romancing in Thin Air, itself a kind of compendium of all of To's romantic comedies, where Sammi Cheng and Louis Koo wander outside the grounds of the hotel, oblivious to each others» presence despite occupying the same film frame).

, but horror is perhaps its best fit, with room for some comedy and drama as well.

Franco's longtime comedy collaborator Seth Rogen, who plays the only competent professional on «The Room's» set in «Disaster Artist,» agreed to produce his friend's film through his company that has gotten away with such mainstream movie murder as «Sausage Party» and the Sony hack - triggering «Interview.»

Any further doubts were assuaged with his irredeemably bad Hulu comedy The Neighbors, which was just as indecipherable as The Room but lacked its floundering charms.

Otherwise, there would be room for comedies such as Don't Think Twice and The Edge of Seventeen, which also joined Deadpool as best comedy nominees by the Critics» Choice Awards.

Best actor in a comedy or musical went to James Franco for his performance as the infamous The Room filmmaker Tommy Wiseau.

But the only one that works for me is to see it as a comedy, in which two entertainingly clueless people toss non sequiturs at each other while wearing lovely clothes in beautiful rooms.

As usual, Clouseau bumbles his way through sequence after sequence, allowing Martin and company plenty of room for slapstick humor and broad physical comedy.

At times, the film approaches gallows comedy (as the decision - makers in the room try to refer the ultimate order elsewhere), perhaps a little too much so; at others, it's a tense, chilling look at a seemingly unbearable choice — refreshingly, without telling its viewers what to think.

While filming The Disaster Artist — the comedy about the making of the infamously terrible 2003 movie, The Room — star and director James Franco stayed in character as Tommy Wiseau for the entirety of the shoot.

These include ordering a cultivated director (Ralph Fiennes) to accept a cowboy star (Alden Ehrenreich) as the lead in a drawing - room comedy and asking a multi-faith group of religious leaders to sign off on the script for Hail, Caesar!

Like some sketch - comedy Frankenstein monster made from the cutting - room entrails of «Clueless,» «The Opposite of Sex,» «To Die For,» «Election» and «Heathers,» the puerile social satire «Pretty Persuasion» is stinging only insomuch as its unsophisticated...

Wiseau's film has recently come to mainstream attention following the release of A24 and James Franco «s The Disaster Artist, a comedy that dramatizes the making - of The Room, with Franco turning in a surprisingly fantastic performance as the utterly strange Wiseau.

The 5.1 mix, in Dolby Digital and DTS options on the same platter, is loud (particularly in DTS) yet ineffectual, though it does sport a few room - rattling moments, like the lassoing of the moon; as with most comedy soundtracks, it's monophonic in nature for large chunks of the running time.

Deemed not a good fit for ABC, Gorgeous Morons was taken to the other major broadcast networks who I hear all bought it in the room as there is a very strong interest among the networks in multi-camera comedy at the moment, especially fresh takes on the classic half - hour format.

In the midst of all of the crazy comedy, Wright finds room for a few sobering details: A scene in which Gary chooses to batter his head against a wall rather than revealing some hidden scars is emotionally devastating even as it nods cheerfully to midnight - movie classics like The Thing and Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

Call Me By Your Name and Professor Marston and the Wonder Women were among the Outstanding Film — Wide Release nominees and in the television section, along with Outstanding Comedy and Drama Series nominees for shows that contain regular LGBTQ characters, GLAAD also recognizes shows without a recurring LGBTQ character but had an LGBTQ - inclusive episode such as Room 104 and Legion.

If the idea of a secret government laboratory that lets its janitorial staff wander blithely into asset containment rooms sounds like comedy gold, you're expecting more of a Cabin In The Woods than the earnest fable Del Toro has made — an honest mistake, given the presence of Richard Jenkins, quite touching as Hawkins» closeted, movie - loving neighbor.

We all love The Room, Tommy Wiseau's 2003 romantic - drama that he tried to pass off as a black comedy once it was started being dubbed the Citizen...

Given Altspace's social - centric talents, such as offering live shared room comedy shows in VR, it's easy to see how this new acquisition can help with developing multi-user Cliff House experiences.