Sentences with phrase «age comedy from»

Not exact matches

I hope that one day we can look back laugh on the dark ages, but today, you and I both know that it is far from a comedy sketch.

Indeed, this show's unique mix of music and comedy appeals to guests of all ages and from all walks of life, and it fits in spectacularly with the vintage showroom atmosphere at The Plaza.

A new comedy from Armando Iannucci, Time Trumpet, looks back on 2007 from the future featuring aged versions of current celebrities, including Tony Blair, David Beckham and Jamie Oliver.

Teenage girl's skeleton found deep in underwater Mexican cave dates from the last ice age 13,000 years ago and is oldest ever 8 Simple Rules (originally 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter for the first season) is an American sitcom comedy television show, originally

An aging hipster finds that there may be more to life than good looks and fast cars in this introspective comedy from first - time director Danny Comden.

When a geeky high - school valedictorian throws caution to the wind by expressing his love for a popular cheerleader during his graduation speech, life finally starts to get interesting in this coming - of - age comedy adapted from the book by journalist / author / screenwriter Larry Doyle.

Landline being a zippy and friendly episodic comedy and coming - of - age story from the director Gillian Robespierre, whose well - received 2014 Obvious Child starred Jenny Slate.

A handful of men and women «of a certain age» pick up the pieces of their lives and look for new love after the loss of their mates in this comedy drama from writer - director Susan Seidelman.

From the age of five on, Lewis occasionally performed in his parents» act, and later quit high school in order to travel with his own comedy routine, which consisted primarily of mocking famous entertainers while their records were played off - stage.

The game - show climax is as exciting and riveting as one might've expected, however, and Starter for 10 finally (and ultimately) establishes itself as a perfectly watchable (yet far - from - memorable) romantic comedy / coming - of - age story.

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.

In films from the age of 17, American actor Ralph Graves was a handsome, strapping young man who was most comfortable in comedy.

Staking claim on her fame with her role in the comedy - horror spoof Scary Movie, Regina Hall has frequented the big screen in roles that far from betrayed her age.

Directed by Nick Park, the upcoming stop - motion animated comedy from the makers of the Shaun the Sheep movie depicts the adventures of Stone Age central protagonist and his sidekick.

-- Claudia Puig, NPR NOMINATED FOR 5 ACADEMY AWARDS ® INCLUDING BEST MOTION PICTURE AND BEST DIRECTING The Critically Acclaimed Coming - of - Age Comedy Arrives on Blu - ray ™ Combo Pack and DVD March 6 from Lionsgate SA... [Read More]

Also screened: Sadako Vs. Kayako (Grade: B --RRB-, an entertaining, teen - friendly marriage of the The Ring and The Grudge mythologies that (thank God) has a sense of humor about itself, even though its final confrontation is less than satisfying; Dearest Sister (Grade: C +), a poetic (and rather slow) meditation on class conflict couched in a ghost story from Laotian director Mattie Do; and Down Under (Grade: B --RRB-, a Superbad - style profane coming - of - age comedy set against the backdrop of the Cronulla race riots that took place in Sydney, Australia in Christmas 2005.

Check out Keira Knightley, Chloë Grace Moretz and Sam Rockwell in the new trailer and teaser poster from director Lynn Shelton's upcoming coming - of - age comedy Laggies — opening in select theaters October 24h!

And the result is a mix of tones that works, with our review from the Venice Film Festival declaring that, «while the film flirts with a number of genres genres — melodrama, comedy, coming - of - age — it ultimately lands closest to being Green's first western by the time it reaches its conclusion.»

From actress turned writer / director Marielle Heller (A Walk Among Tombstones) comes the latest new - age, post-modern, feminist movement film that doesn't accomplish much more than Aubrey Plaza did with raunchy comedy The To - Do List.

The comedy follows a trio of dysfunctional upper class New York siblings who recruit a «New Age deprogrammer» and go on the road to save their youngest sister from a doomsday cult — confronting their deep - seated issues with each other along the way.

This sharply amusing comedy of ageing manners from Noah Baumbach, doyen of elite east coast anxiety, begins and ends with quotable observations about the terror of youth.

And so, from these wonderfully disparate influences we have «Kings Of Summer,» a crockpot of comedy and coming - of - age film without a trace of irony.

I can totally agree with that analogy, because the film's main trio reminded me of a lot of the same type of characters from the coming of age 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.

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Taking the 1983 Vacation and thrusting it into the modern age of high - octane raunch comedy, Vacation (2015) is pretty much the result most would expect: Still filled with laughs, but ultimately a cheaper and more hollow echo of the original film, despite some inspired comedic performances from the cast.

This week on streaming video, we've got Bryan Singer's return to the X-Men franchise, an underseen animated film, an indie comedy, an acclaimed coming - of - age film from Sweden, and a retro space drama currently in theaters.

Following a very long and acclaimed career — which included two Oscar wins, four Golden Globes and countless iconic performances — Hackman retired from acting in 2004, at the age of 74, after appearing in the very poorly received comedy Welcome to Mooseport, opposite Ray Romano.

This largely comes from the unconventional pairing of Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway in the leading roles, an unusual duo who bring a surprisingly wonderful chemistry to the table in this light comedy about working in the modern age, seen from two unique viewpoints — the modern working woman who is looked down on by misogynistic men, and the older male seen by many as past his usefulness simply due to his age.

Other clips included scenes from Prometheus, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Diary of A Wimpy Kid: Dog Days, Ice Age: Continental Drift, Won't Back Down, Taken 2 and a family comedy, Parental Guidance starring Billy Crystal, Bette Midler and Marisa Tomei, which is scheduled to open on Christmas.

ENLIGHTENMENT GUARANTEED (Grade: B --RRB-: The new comedy from German filmmaker Doris Dörrie is a vaguely amusing, vaguely uplifting parable about two middle - age bothers who embark on an off - beat spiritual odyssey to Japan.

The actors engage in the exaggerated performance style of silent movie melodramas and comedies and Maddin digitally «ages» his films with scuffs and scratches and cracks and even distorted frames as if they were from decaying nitrate prints from the 1920s.

FERDINAND From the creators of Ice Age and Rio comes the most love - a-bull family comedy of the year!

«Genevieve» and «Green for Danger»: What a nice night out at the movies - a rare double feature of comedy and suspense from Britain's golden age.

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).

From the hilarious new Chris Rock comedy to a French EDM coming - of - age movie, the fest delivered some unexpected gems

The second season of «SuperMansion,» the stop motion - animated comedy series from Stoopid Buddy Stoodios, follows the adventures of Titanium Rex (voiced by Cranston, who's also the series» executive producer) as he struggles to live with and fight alongside the Millennial - aged, often lackadaisical members of The League of Freedom.

You'll find the way the developers take existing movie dialogue from The Avengers and Avengers: Age of Ultron and transform it into comedy gold hilarious.

Following up its hit comedy «Bad Moms,» STX's coming - of - age dramedy «The Edge of Seventeen» earned $ 4.8 million, down from previous estimates of $ 10 million.

It's an extremely edgy black comedy that chronicles the way Harding endured various forms of abuse and exploitation — from her mother (Allison Janney), her husband (Sebastian Stan), and tabloid media that covered and actively amplified the lurid story, set at the dawn of the Age of Truthiness.

And so, from these wonderfully disparate influences we have «Toy's House,» a crockpot of comedy and coming - of - age film without a trace of irony.

Dirty Girl (R for profanity, graphic sexuality and frontal nudity) Coming - of - age road comedy, set in 1987, about an Oklahoma high school student with a bad reputation (Juno Temple) who runs away from home to L.A. to search for her long - lost father with the help of an equally - ostracized, gay classmate (Jeremy Dozier).

«I only wish to live up to my father's example...» An official US trailer has debuted for an indie coming - of - age comedy titled The Tiger Hunter, starring young actor Danny Pudi best known from «Community».

Baseball has been at the foreground of a diverse group of great films, from the classic drama Pride of the Yankees to the screwball comedy Major League, from coming - of - age tale The Sandlot to Disney's own spiritual family dramedy Angels in the Outfield.

The AFCA also announced its Best Austin Film nominees: two films from director Jeff Nichols, the harrowing period drama «Loving» and the sci - fi thriller «Midnight Special;» Keith Maitland's animated documentary «Tower;» Greg Kwedar's border patrol thriller «Transpecos;» and Clay Liford's coming of age comedy «Slash.»

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The vocal performances range from monotone drone (Romano, Leary, and Goran Visnjic as the evil sabretooth) to spastic (Leguizamo, of course, and Wedge)-- leading me to wonder if Ice Age could be read with more profit as an underground stoner comedy — and the action set - pieces run out of imagination long before they're allowed to fizzle out.

The astringent comedy never strays far from bone - crushing pathos as Oliver experiences his first pangs of true love, his parents drift apart, and the arrival of a New Age guru (Paddy Considine sporting an emphatic mullet) with a shared past with Oliver's mother, all combine to threaten the stability of his moribund home life.

On the complete other end of the spectrum but covering the same demographic, the tiny independent film Old Goats — now available on DVD from Music Box Films — is described on the movie's Facebook Page as «a gentle comedy about the indignities of aging.»

From writers / directors Jay and Mark Duplass (Cyrus) comes Jeff Who Lives at Home, a coming of age comedy for two men who are already well beyond their youth.