Sentences with phrase «big comedies like»
In addition to the films that I've listed here, the brothers are also responsible for other big comedies like Kingpin (1995), Me, Myself and Irene (1998) and Hall Pass (2011).
http://www.johnhanlonreviews.com/ Not exact matches
People go to see comedies based on the actor / comedian, while not many go to big event movies like Transformers to see Labeouf.
Nagasu says that while in general she turns to comedy and laughter to reduce pressure at big events like the Olympics, overcoming the heartbreak of missing the Sochi team was tough.
CBS, home of broad - based hits like «NCIS» and «Big Bang Theory,» is exploring a tie - up with Viacom, which owns Nickelodeon, MTV and Comedy Central, as well as Paramount studios.
Believe it or not, the whole journey is actually like one big comedy, and you will be the main star!
Bitter by - election battles, gaffe - prone juniors, devious whips and one big game of «coalition chess» sounds more like the sober politics pages of a national broadsheet than a fun evening out, but first - time playwrights Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky remarkably manage to marry the two in their new political comedy, Coalition.
I really like to watch movies, I'm a big fan of comedies but I'll watch anything if its good...
I like watching comedy shows like Big Bang Therapy.
it is funny in deed but, when their is someone to cover Sandler's movie their most likely gonna never make a film again Oh look see Denis Dugan and Frank Coraci BOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! you suck stop making adam sandler movies here is the problem they are directors who don't care about cinematography or shots of using the camera all they care is comedy!!!!!!! see Tyler Perry yeah their just like this big joke.
Big dumb disaster movies like 2012 and small indies like The Divide (about an underground bunker full of jerks who fail at survivalism but excel at destroying each other) and the upcoming apocalypse - themed Seth Rogen comedy The End of The World are all surfing the trending death - wave.
Like its a good movie if you base it on Spaceys an Devitos acting and the fact it is wel written in the comedy part wth a few really good laugh out loud moments and the story is ok i understand there after a big sale but i do nt understand why a guy whose really religious would ignore his job and talk about religion?
When the big game gets underway, it resembles something like «A Perfect Getaway,» «The Tourist,» or «The Game» (which are outright thrillers) before taking cues from «Date Night» or the recent «Central Intelligence» and «Rough Night» (which are comedies with thrills).
Our Idiot Brother may be what you expect, but it may also be a big surprise if you go into it expecting a comedy like we're expecting to see come out today.
At a time when half - hour TV comedy is reaching a new level of self - referential daring — you can't fully appreciate the intricate, in - joke pleasures of great shows like NBC's Seinfeld and HBO's The Larry Sanders Show unless you've also watched a lot of really bad TV — The Simpsons continues to emphasize that there's a big world out there that television barely touches upon.
Usually I would be defending the action scenes in a big comedy, but it takes a good director like David Gordon Green or Jody Hill to make it work.
In the second female - led «Hangover» - like comedy of 2017, four lifelong friends (Jada Pinkett Smith, Queen Latifah, Regina Hall and Tiffany Haddish) travel to New Orleans for the Essence Festival, complete with enough dancing, drinking, brawling and romancing to make the Big Easy blush.
More than any other word, that tidily sums up Teller, who pinballs between beloved indies and big - budget fare like Fantastic Four and, this year alone, both a comedy opposite Jonah Hill (War Dogs) and an upcoming drama about PTSD (Thank You for Your Service).
The show had excellent buzz but was surprisingly passed over, reportedly because CBS relies mostly on multi-camera comedy, and as a single - camera effort, the show was thought to be difficult to pair with the likes of «How I Met Your Mother» and «The Big Bang Theory» (this is why network television is nosediving, for the record...).
The raunchy trailer boasts a strong, cross-generation cast, including a very nude Hartley (This Is Us), that could help put a big ribbon over that summer crop of disappointing rude comedies, like Rough Night, The House, Baywatch, and Snatched.
While English comedies of this sort can go the way of cute and light Feel Good Brit Flick (an often way too saccharine genre), they can also produce generally winning films like «Billy Elliot» and «The Full Monty,» and production company Big Talk have an excellent track record, with «Shaun Of The Dead,» «Attack The Block» and «Sightseers» among their triumphs.
The biggest laughs therein result from pedestrian physical comedy that comes off like low - level Farrelly brothers, much of it involving a committed - as - ever Heffernan relishing his return to the land of Farva.
Considering how that film was not exactly a commercial success, this may not sound like a big deal to many of you but as someone who believes that bleak and bruising comedy - drama to be one of the great unsung movies of the decade — the kind of film that the great Billy Wilder might have made once upon a time — I went into the screening with the kind of over-the-top sense of anticipation that many felt as they walked into «Avengers: Infinity War.»
Great comedies keep peaking with bigger and bigger laughs while good ones like «Horrible Bosses» just provide decent ones throughout.
The lanky woman's face is good for comedy, given her wide mouth and her big clouded brow; anxiety radiates off of her like waves from a radio tower.
The Coens vary between dark and violent thrillers like «No Country for Old Men» and Fargo, and quirky comedies like «Raising Arizona» and «The Big Lebowski».
Writer and director Adam McKay made an impressive jump from directing feature comedies like Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy and Step Brothers to the real life The Big Short, even earning an Oscar nomination for Best Director and a win for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Like a romantic - comedy in which the female lead is forced to choose between a lifeless dolt and the man of her dreams, «First Match» is hurt by how it effectively makes Monique's biggest decision for her.
«Big Hero 6» is a heartfelt comedy adventure about robotics prodigy Hiro Hamada, who learns to harness his genius — thanks to his brilliant brother Tadashi and their like - minded friends: adrenaline junkie Go Go Tamago, clean freak Wasabi No - Ginger, chemistry whiz Honey Lemon and fanboy Fre... Read On
He directed the funniest film in the Marvel franchise, Iron Man 3, and the criminally underrated crime comedy The Nice Guys, so a big - budget R - rated sci - fi horror like The Predator doesn't scream «next career step», but here we are.
Around the time of the late 1980s, these young - old body - switch comedies were becoming quite plentiful, starting with 1984's After School Special, Summer Switch, 1987's Big (though no bodies are switched, it's very similar) and Like Father Like Son, and in 1988, there were three more notables, Vice Versa, 18 Again!
Though it grossed more per theater on opening day than everything but the three big aforementioned wide release attractions, the movie could not become the mainstream draw envisioned, like past Rogen - Goldberg comedies had been.
The Nugget is a mild - mannered Australian film that fits right in with the type of comedies they generally make, full of likeably daft little guys that discover they like the simple lives they lead, almost losing it all when something bigger comes along.
But those are all 50 - 75 years old, and I haven't even mentioned my modern - era favorites, like Luis Bunuel («The Exterrminating Angel,» «Simon of the Desert,» «The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie,» «The Phantom of Liberty»), Monty Python («Life of Brian» — greatest comedy of the last half - century), Christopher Guest & ensemble («Spinal Tap,» «Waiting for Guffman,» «Best in Show») or the Coen Bros. («Barton Fink,» «The Big Lebowski»).
But Elgort scored Baby Driver's only nomination at the Globes this year, pushing out folks like Kumail Nanjiani for The Big Sick or Matt Damon for Downsizing in the Best Actor, Comedy or Musical category.
When it comes to this crop of nominees, there seems to be a movement towards bigger, stronger, more popular casting and films like Adam McKay's The Big Short and Alejandro González Iñárritu's The Revenant — the former a dramatic comedy centered around the collapse of the housing and credit bubble of 2008, the latter a brooding take on life on the frontier in 19th century America — epitomize star - studded casts.
After Wedding Singer, Sandler's comedies went way downhill (although I do like Big Daddy).
At the top of the list, the billion - dollar big guns: franchises, superhero movies, animated kid - flicks and single - serving comedies — the whole high - calorie / low nutritional monoculture diet the studios would prefer us to subsist on, like docile teenage boys easily distracted by big bangs and shiny objects.
The 2008 housing market crash was no joke, which is why it might come as a surprise that «The Big Short» was directed by the same man responsible for goofball comedies like «Anchorman» and «Talladega Nights.»
Considering the major arc for star Joel McHale, big guest turns by stars like Jonathan Banks and John Oliver, and an emotional farewell to star Donald Glover, it's reasonable to expect the show to be an Emmy contender in several key comedy categories, including Outstanding Writing.
«The Big Sick» took home the award for best comedy, beating out films like «Girl's Trip» and «I, Tonya.»
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle: A nominal sequel to the 1995 Robin Williams movie, this fun film is more like a mash - up of»80s John Hughes teen films and wrong - body comedies like «Big» and «All of Me.»
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle: A nominal sequel to the 1995 Robin Williams movie, this fun film is more like a mashup of»80s John Hughes teen films and wrong - body comedies like «Big» and «All of Me.»
It's probably a loser's game to ask for better craftsmanship from a movie like Tower Heist, but even crowd - pleasing big - budget comedies would seem to owe both of their top - billed actors a final scene.
The film — which also features the likes of Rachel McAdams, Michael Sheen, Carla Bruni, Tom Hiddleston, Kathy Bates, Marion Cotillard and Adrien Brody — provided Allen with his biggest hit, banking over $ 145m at the global box office, and it will also contest the Golden Globe awards for Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Actor — Musical or Comedy (Wilson).
The winning new teen romp Superbad was written by Evan Goldberg and Judd Apatow's protégé Seth Rogen, and directed by The Daytrippers» Greg Mottola, but it still feels like the concluding film in Apatow's trilogy of raunchy, big - hearted, improvisation - heavy comedies about man - children torn between the pleasures of eternal adolescence and the relentless pull of adult responsibility.
That's a benchmark reserved for very few comedies and only the best of the best like «My Big Fat Greek Wedding» and «Crocodile Dundee.»
Last Summer's biggest gimmick comedies, Year One (Jack Black in animal skins) and Land of the Lost (Ferrell in another dimension), were crushingly bad; by comparison, Forte's MacGruber (if ever a title deserved to be followed by an exclamation point, this is it), seems like a piece of comic genius.
For a time, scraping by in a big city doing improvisational sketch comedy seemed like the new scraping by in a big city playing in an indie rock band.
Twelve trillion words into this entry and I still haven't gotten to my big theory of why it works so well to have Jeff Bridges play what feels like a Tommy Lee Jones role in Hell or High Water, or Molly Shannon working beautifully against type as a dying mom in Chris Kelly's Other People and reminding us that tragedy often feels like an interruption of comedy.
Later in that Vanity Fair interview, he said, «I absolutely love the big, broader comedies that I get to be a part of and I also love something more small and grounded like Cyrus.