Sentences with phrase «watching a comedy film»

Researchers have concluded that after watching a comedy film concentration of HGH has increased by 88 %.

Watching a comedy film or simply having funny friends is thus a great idea.

Watching a comedy film can slash elevated cortisol by 50 %.

Not exact matches

While Sony's controversial comedy The Interview is the embattled studio's most watched online film ever (complete with an $ 18 million opening weekend), piracy certainly is still alive and well.

«In a 2008 study, nearly 120 students were induced to feel amused, neutral, or sad (by watching a comedy video, a nature documentary, or a film clip about cancer).

The participants were randomly assigned to watch an animated film clip intended to induce sadness or a standup comedy clip intended to induce amusement.

As the days get darker and the nights grow colder, one of the most blissful things you can do this time of year is to spend the evening watching a classic romantic - comedy film.

I like most music, the usual soaps period dramas and romantic / comedy films I do not like horror but will watch any.

With the festive season in full swing, what better way to catch a breather than spending an evening on the sofa watching a romantic comedy film!

Offering a solid story from beginning to end, this witty film begs for repeated watching in order to catch all the rapid - fire comedy.

If you're looking for a great family comedy watch Toy Story or The Sandlot instead, Mouse Hunt simply is an empty shell of a film, a film that leaves a lot to be desired.

The film has so many stupidly random piece of (supposed) comedy that do nt fit with the pacing of the story in there that it feels like were watching a TV show and the channel changes.

Watching Greg and the film's crew try their best to deal with Wiseau is the main source of comedy, and it never gets old, as there are always new ways for Tommy to surprise, shock and bewilder those around him.

The film has so many stupidly random piece of (supposed) comedy that do nt fit with the pacing of the story in there that it feels like were watching a TV show and the channel

The characters are all very fun to watch, the comedy that comes from the situation our main character is in is very funny, and is definitely a film people need to see, especially in our environment that's thankfully becoming more tolerant.

The characters are all very fun to watch, the comedy that comes from the situation our main character is in is very funny, and is definitely a film people need to see, especially in our

Watching Bateman and McAdams work together is a real melding of styles and comedy and it anchors the film's performances.

Even if the casting choices in portraying some of iconic talents in Kenney's orbit are occasionally questionable — a detail the film gleefully acknowledges — there's something delightful about watching actors known for comedy now try to capture the sound or energy of the performers who inspired them.

This week, watch new trailers for the Vince Vaughn / Owen Wilson comedy «The Internship,» Danny Boyle's «Trance,» Bryan Singer's «Jack the Giant Slayer,» and more, plus get updates on future projects including Star Wars, Bond 24, Brad Bird's «Tomorrowland,» Michael Mann's next film, and more.

I can't think of anyone who would want to watch a film about the creepy 1980s comedy act Frank Sidebottom, except people really missing Jimmy Savile.

Don't watch this one, you'd be better off watching something else in terms of comedy and The Whole Nine Yards is a bland film definitely not worth your time.

I always fall directly in the middle when I watch this film, because the comedy hits just as much as it misses.

This week, watch new trailers for Will Ferrell's new comedy «Casa de Mi Padre,» the next «Resident Evil» film, and more.

This week, get the latest casting details on the next Superman movie, and watch a dozen just - released trailers for upcoming films ranging from summer comedies to Sundance hits to foreign - language Oscar contenders.

This film fails at being a good comedy and it is not worth watching.

The team of Jill and Karen Sprecher are now written down as filmmakers to watch, following up their terrific office comedy, CLOCKWATCHERS, with a wholly different, but just as well - made second film.

Greta Gerwig who wrote and directed «Lady Bird,» which won Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, noted that «it's been such an incredible year for women in film both as actors and also writers and directors and producers and people who are really coming to the forefront to tell their stories about the world as they know it from where they are standing, and I think that the response to these projects and the support that these projects have gotten and the way that audiences are going to see them or watching them in their homes, I think all of this just makes it so much easier for the next crop of filmmakers who want to tell stories about women.»

The film also includes outstanding additional cast including Corey Stoll (House of Cards, The Bourne Legacy), Bobby Cannavale (Danny Collins, Annie, HBO's The Long Play), Michael Peña (End of Watch, American Hustle), Abby Ryder Fortson (Togetherness), Judy Greer (13 Going on 30, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes), David Dastmalchian (The Dark Knight, Prisoners), Wood Harris (Remember the Titans, The Wire), John Slattery (Mad Men, Marvel's Iron Man 2) and Gregg Turkington (The Comedy, On Cinema) and multi-hyphenate T.I. (American Gangster, Takers).

Written and directed by actress Adrienne Shelly, who also has a bit part in this film, I»LL TAKE YOU THERE is an offbeat black comedy that has many bits and pieces that make it worth watching, but as a whole isn't quite substantial enough to remember long afterwards.

Unlike many of Judd Apatow's comedies, the film never overstays its welcome, nor does it feel like we're simply watching extended unscripted improvisation play out instead of actually moving forward with the story.

The Thunder Buddies return next week with the U.S. release of the comedy sequel Ted 2, and a rather excellent Flash Gordon - inspired poster has arrived online for the Seth MacFarlane film, which you can see right here... SEE ALSO: Watch the latest trailer for Ted 2 Seth MacFarlane returns as writer, director and co-star of -LSB-...]

Had a great time at the TimeOut screening to see this film, a must watch action comedy!

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

It may be a dumb concept, but as it pokes fu at itself, making reference to comedy cliches, «George of the Jungle» ends up a great film to watch.

My favorite classic horror film to watch in the days leading up to Halloween is actually not a horror film at all, but a comedy.

Best described as Home Alone meets Michael Haneke's Funny Games, the sadistic horror comedy [Better Watch Out] is the kind of film that's tough to categorise but easy to enjoy.

It's not quite as awful as Lynch's last effort, the horror - comedy «Knights of Badassdom,» but while the idea of watching a scantily - clad Hayek fight her way through yakuza henchman and prostitutes - turned - assassins may sound like a ton of fun, «Everly» is never able to match its B - movie aspirations, instead forced to flounder in the gutter like the filthy, exploitative grindhouse film that it is.

Even though it's rather corny and sentimental, this colourful comedy - drama holds our interest mainly because it's about a subject we'd never imagine watching a film about.

Every time I watch Taxi Driver, I discover a new aspect to admire: from the film's unexpected comedy (the scenes between Albert Brooks and Cybill Shepherd are positively screwball), to Harvey Keitel's captivatingly creepy pimp.

Good natured, positive and with a fun cast of British actors (yes Chuck Bass is really English) this film is light and frothy entertainment, and sometimes it is nice to watch a comedy that doesn't humiliate people for laughs (rich people do get poked fun of a little, but that seems perfectly fair).

Considering the problems with filming and the fact that so many people were openly attacked on camera, this is like watching Faces of Death, if that was a comedy.

Last week we saw a poster and two TV spots from the upcoming Will Ferrell / Mark Wahlberg comedy Daddy's Home [watch them here] and now Paramount Pictures has released a new clip from the film entitled «Hitting the Cheerleaders».

The whole experience isn't quite as good as actually sitting down and watching a movie with Wright — whose clear enthusiasm for film and gabbing about it is pretty much unquestionable at this point — but it does make for a pretty good excuse to bust out one of our best comedies since 2000 and give it another watch.

Anyone else, unfortunately, will have to watch one of the dozen or more better films this one rips off, including the goofy Michael J. Fox comedy, «The Secret of My Success,» which contains more corporate intrigue in any given scene than in one hour and 40 minutes of Paranoia.

Arriving in limited theaters this week is one of our favorite films from the Sundance Film Festival this year, a coming - of - age comedy called The Kings of Summer, formerly known as Toy's House (watch the trailer here).

The film sees director Kyle Newacheck reunite with his fellow Mail Order Comedy members and Workaholics stars Adam Devine, Anders Holm, and Blake Anderson alongside Aya Cash, Neal McDonough, Cloris Leachman, Chloe Bridges, Blake Anderson, and Marc Brandt; watch it below... In this action -LSB-...]

My requirement for a comedy is that it makes the audience laugh and that was certainly the case when I went to watch this film at the theater.

Earning back its budget several times over, the much - watched, much - quoted film quickly etched a place in the cultural zeitgeist alongside Animal House and The Blues Brothers as modern marvels taking funnymen from «Saturday Night Live» to heights and distances that weekly sketch comedy TV couldn't.

9:35 am — Sundance — A Girl Cut in Two One of the last films from great French director Claude Chabrol before his death, with Ludivine Sagnier as an up - and - coming TV personality faced with choosing between two men — with Chabrol at the helm, you know there's more than that to it, and his touch for black comedy thrillers should make this one an enjoyable watch.

A new trailer has arrived online for Amazon Studios upcoming comedy series Jean - Claude Van Johnson which sees Jean - Claude Van Damme leading a cast that includes Phylicia Rashad, Kat Foster, and Moises Arias; watch it below... Jean - Claude Van Johnson stars global martial arts & film sensation Jean - Claude Van Damme playing «Jean - Claude Van Damme», a global martial arts & film -LSB-...]