Sentences with phrase «age comedies like»

In the footsteps of other raunchy coming - of - age comedies like Superbad and American Pie where teens just want to have a lot of sex comes Blockers, a movie about three parents who will stop at nothing to sabotage their daughters» sex lives.

Not exact matches

The upshot: the EV shift might usher in the age of a bubble - or pod - shaped car like those popularised by the 1960s futuristic animated comedy series, The Jetsons.

You simply couldn't script this whole mess, its like an Ealing comedy of a bygone age, where a bureaucratic nightmare of such proportions should surely only exist in fiction unfortunately the African continent has to contend with as a nightmare of a reality.

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.

On the surface, Submarine sounds like a typical coming - of - age comedy.

The Puffy Chair is the funniest, saddest and most emotionally honest «romantic comedy» to come along in years, even if I've yet to encounter many over the age of about 35 who like the film, or even get it.

This may look like a conventional coming - of - age romantic comedy but there is more to recommend it, including an appealing performance from McAvoy, hilarious moments and a quite painful scene near the end.

Even as he amounts acting gigs — like a major role in Noah Baumbach's latest comedy about aging, art and losing one's edge, «While We're Young» as a 40 - something father who's the opposite of cool — Horovitz is proud to stick to this label of a Beastie Boy (read our review).

Like everyone else in the movie, Alice has to grow up in her own way, and while «Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates» may not be a particularly convincing or memorable portrait of maturation, the fact that Kendrick's character even has an arc is enough to make you believe that bro comedies are finally coming of age.

The Judd Apatow factory, which has refreshed the coming - of - age comedy (for all ages of adolescent men) in comedies like Knocked Up, Superbad and Forgetting Sarah Marshall, has been stretching itself thin (that's my best explanation for Drillbit Taylor and Step Brothers).

But Post, who broke into directing in 1950, managed to build a résumé that could have belonged to a golden - age Hollywood journeyman like Michael Curtiz, who in 1935 knocked out a labor drama, a workplace romance, and an action picture in rapid succession, along with a Perry Mason programmer, a gangster comedy, and part of an Al Jolson — Ruby Keeler backstage musical that somehow burned through three directors.

I liked Driving Lessons, a sharp, engaging, and amusing comedy / drama that does well as a coming - of - age film, family drama, and unlikely friendship tale.

Daniel Scheinert: — a coming - of - age teen comedy about ninth - graders crashing a party that the 12th - graders are throwing, but it has a bit of a Scott Pilgrim videogame aesthetic, where we would try to take that manic energy teenagers have and try to explore it with interactivity, where they're like, «What do I do?

After collaborating on comedies like Tammy and The Boss (both starring McCarthy and directed by Falcone), the pair is at it again with Life of the Party, co-writing this story of a middle - aged mother who returns to college after her husband asks for a divorce.

However, like all Edgar, Frost and Pegg collaborations, the shackles of convention are forcefully removed as they take this ordinary and somewhat touching coming of age drama and lead it down the action / sci - fi / comedy path.

Something like the 2016 coming - of - age comedy The Edge of Seventeen, though entirely fictional, feels authentic in its nuanced, awkward, hilarious, heartbreaking portrayal of what it feels like to grow up.

At the premiere, Akhavan introduced the film as her attempt at a queer John Hughes comedy, and like his coming - of - age classics, it's both sincere about its characters» struggles and aware that maturity will solve most of them.

Lady Bird is something truly special: a coming - of - age comedy so funny, perceptive, and truthful that it makes most other films about adolescence look like little more than lessons in cliché.

Besides «Marshall» director Hudlin, stars Chadwick Boseman, Josh Gad and Sterling K. Brown and producer Paula Wagner, high - profile guests expected at various screenings and events during the festival include Patrick Stewart (subject of an Oct. 25 career retrospective tribute and a conversation with yours truly); Vanessa Redgrave (Oct. 16, presenting her documentary «Sea Sorrow» and represented elsewhere in the festival by a revival screening of «Blow - Up»); Alfre Woodard (subject of an Oct. 21 career retrospective tribute); Michael Shannon (Chicago's own, as the locals like to call him, representing «The Shape of Water» on Oct. 26); Tracy Letts (Chicago's own, as the locals also like to call him, participating Oct. 18 on behalf of Greta Gerwig's acclaimed directorial debut «Lady Bird»); Michael Stuhlbarg (arriving Oct. 25; he gives a beautiful supporting turn in the coming - of - age drama «Call Me by Your Name»); Jon Lovitz (part of the Chicago - sprung comedy «Chasing the Blues,» appearing Oct. 14); and, in an Oct. 23 addition announced after the program went to press, Bill Pullman (getting good notices for the western «The Ballad of Lefty Brown»).

by Sean Rom Richard Ayoade, best known from British comedies like I.T. Crowd and Nathan Barley, has made his directorial debut with coming of age story Submarine.

Sixteen years in, our new millennium looks like a banner age for big - screen comedy, as eclectic as any that came before it.

At times it feels like it's trying to be a romantic comedy for our cynical, burned - out - on - war age, and at others it feels like it wants to be a scathing satire like In The Loop.

Permanent (PG - 13 for profanity, crude humor, sexual references and mature themes) Coming - of - age comedy, set in the South in 1982, revolving around a white «tweener (Kira McLean), new to a town, who ends up ostracized at school after her hairdresser accidentally leaves her with an afro instead of curls like her idol, Farah Fawcett.

Army of One's romantic subplot illustrates why King of Comedy was better off not being weighed down by a half hour of scenes featuring Rupert Pupkin's arbitrary love interest (played by, I du n no, Maria Conchita Alonso) about how, as a woman of a certain age who's been banged around by life a bit, she's lucky to have a good - hearted, if someone eccentric ambitious young show business striver like Pupkin in her life.

The film is exceptionally written — every line of dialogue sounds like something a person might actually say and, as someone who was a high school senior in 2002, it felt so authentic that I thought I was watching a documentary about my generation's coming - of - age instead of a comedy - drama from the co-writer of Frances Ha and Mistress America.

Taika Waititi's coming - of - age comedy is one of the most well - liked films of 2016, landing a stunning 100 % on Rotten Tomatoes and really working for everyone who has caught up with it.

This is hopefully the beginning of a new age for Hill, in which he will flex his comedy muscles and avoid cliché movies like this one.

Like Kathy Griffin, she goes too far in her comedy club shtick about what it's like to get it on with someone twice her Like Kathy Griffin, she goes too far in her comedy club shtick about what it's like to get it on with someone twice her like to get it on with someone twice her age.

But the film has aged remarkably well over twenty years, perhaps because it was even something of a throwback at the time: the imprint of conversation - driven French auteurs like Eric Rohmer is borne proudly by this sharp, sexy and nastily funny comedy of manners, whose dialogue crackles with such cutting truth and wit one wonders why Soderbergh doesn't write more these days.

There is nothing else like The Red Green Show (except maybe Ernest), but Harvey is another comedy about a middle - aged man with no ambition, and Marty features a stuck - in - a-rut, thirty - something bachelor with friends content to keep him there.

Appropriate for a comedy about swelling numbers, NBC's latest venture in the multi-camera arena has a statistical basis: Studies like the one released by the White House's Council Of Economic Advisers in 2014, which found that 31 percent of Americans between the ages of 18 and 34 lived with their parents in 2014 — up from 28 percent in 2007.

Like the original Ice Age, this film is flush with slapstick violence played for comedy.

About a small town that goes to hell when someone starts publicly posting private social - media exchanges and search histories, Assassination Nation looks like an arch, bloody high - school horror - comedy that, sure, could be a Heathers for our age.

No matter what your age, if you like your comedy subtle, even on the dry side, these essays may not be for you.

Huddled under my flower - print bedspread, surrounded by high - school soccer trophies and my homecoming - princess tiara, I felt like a character in a dark comedy about an aging prom queen who returns to her childhood home after flaming out in the big city.

If the 1960s cartoon plumbed comedy from putting the familiar in an unfamiliar context, the comic thrusts contemporary constructs like politics, consumerism, the military, and TV news into a Stone Age setting to encourage a frank reevaluation of perspective.

Creators Drew McCabe interviews Princeless writer Jeremy Whitley, who discusses the genesis of the comic, the rise of all - ages comics, and who he would like to cross over with: «Just from a pure comedy and fun perspective though, I would love to have Adrienne encounter Marvel's Asgard.

It's an awesome opportunity to embrace their inherent potential for comedy and otherworldly weirdness, which have always been big parts of our game, as well as reimagining what all of them would be like as school - aged students from Atillan Academy.