Sentences with phrase «budget comedy»

Former indie wunderkind turned big budget comedy king, David Gordon Green returns to his roots with his sweetly eccentric, surprisingly poignant new film, Prince Avalanche.

Late Night Shopping is a low budget comedy made in Scotland that has no plot other than to show the state of mind that generates from the doldrums of life for young men and women on the lowest rung of the social and economic ladder.

The 2.40:1 anamorphic widescreen video isn't the sharpest or most detailed, but that's a low - budget comedy in standard definition from a small studio for you.

Napoleon Dynamite was a quirky, low - budget comedy about a nerdy high - schooler in an outdated small town in rural Idaho.

His final film appearance — in John T. Kretchmer's low - budget comedy Bad Girls from Valley High — arrived posthumously, in 2005.

In the wake of a number of star - studded big - budget comedy features waning at the box office (read Ghostbusters), and once - upon - a-time comedy king Adam Sandler now reaching his core audience on Netflix, A Bad Moms Christmas serves as an example of how feature film economics have also changed in a climate where streaming has impacted theatergoing for mid-and-low budgeted films.

Forget «Little Women» and get out to see «Little Men,» a small - budget comedy with Alfred Molina and Greg Kinnear.

In 2011, a small budget comedy written by actor Jay Baruchel and Seth Rogen's long - tine partner, Evan Goldberg, called «Goon» attracted itself...

Thanks to their connection with the prolific Judd Apatow, they have come into contact with a number of rising and established comedic actors, and it is therefore no surprise to see the vast majority of them make some form of appearance in this $ 32 million budgeted comedy romp.

A couple of the golfing scenes aren't as sharp as others, but most are immaculate and unexpectedly vibrant for a low - budget comedy of this age.

Baghead is the low - budget comedy thriller from the Duplass Brothers, one of my other favorite films from the fest.

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back has elaborate comedic setups; these are tempting for any big budget comedy director, but they fall way short of smaller, punchy jokes (one extended joke about an acronym involving the female body was taken about ten pages too far).

It was a successful piece of counter-programming for Paramount, which used the modestly budgeted comedy starring Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton and Candice Bergen to find older audiences and women while «Deadpool 2» dwelled overwhelmingly on young men.

A low - budget comedy defeating a much - hyped historical drama by Steven Spielberg?

1941, the spectacular, big - budget comedy film, directed by none other than Steven Spielberg, which takes place in the year 1941.

David has made a number of films spanning independent cinema and Hollywood studios, including modest dramas and big budget comedies.

Despite being a low budget comedy, the film doesn't shy away from its horrific roots, occasionally doubling down on gore with fountains of deep red blood.

Shot with an iPhone, this low - budget comedy that focuses on a transgender sex worker out for answers when she learns that her pimp boyfriend has been cheating on her is incredibly executed and the performances are top - notch.

While working on In Living Color, Carey and Oedekerk began knocking together ideas for a character named Ace Ventura, and Oedekerk was credited as a «project consultant» on Ace Ventura, Pet Detective, a low - budget comedy that became a surprise hit and Carey's ticket to the big leagues.

It's the kind of small - budget comedy that earns your goodwill early and easily, even if it isn't breaking new ground or transcending its readily apparent monetary constraints.

Patrick Stewart has a blast playing against type as a soft - spoken white supremacist holding a punk rock band as his temporary prisoners in Jeremy Saulnier's nicely crafted, low - budget comedy - thriller.

When there's no more room left in multiplexes, the low - budget comedies will walk the Netflix.

Written and directed by Ryan Coogler («Creed»), the movie (and its enormous box office success) is a triumph of progress and representation, a full - toned tsk - tsk to the surfeit of Hollywood executives that spent decades confining black casts to relatively low - budget comedies and melodramas.

The central joke in this low - budget comedy should have been a springboard to something either blackly hilarious or more amusingly complex, but the filmmakers seem to have run out of ideas after coming up with...

One of the most unexpected delights of Australian cinema in 2017 was Gregory Erdstein and Alice Foulcher's low - budget comedy That's Not Me, winning audience favourite awards at both Sydney and Melbourne Film Festivals this year and garnering strong, vocal support from film critics around the country.

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.

She began acting in local TV and film productions and eventually made the transition to Hollywood, appearing in the low - budget comedy, «The Utopian Society,» and then as the Christian nymphomaniac wife of a deformed tow - truck driver in the stoner comedy, «Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle.»

Kristen Wiig (writer and star of Bridesmaids) and Amy Schumer (writer and star of Trainwreck) have shown that bigger budget comedies are not a reach for women.

Robbie stars in this dark, low - budget comedy - biopic about the wayward American figure skater, Tonya Harding — and also produced it.

Bad Grandpa is low budget comedy that works so well because of its simplicity.

The Daily Show «s Jason Jones and Samantha Bee costar in this low - budget comedy, which filters the unique torture of holiday familial bickering through the rubric of a Blair Witch - style collection of captured footage.

This low - budget comedy is audacious in the way it portrays a developmentally challenged adult as an insensitive jerk without seeming insensitive itself.

The resulting big - budget comedy (fake - looking CGI giraffe notwithstanding) represents a slight improvement over its predecessor, but Part III is basically another futile exercise in trying to recapture lightning in a bottle.

One does not have to think hard to line up a lengthy list of small - budget comedies and dramas whose primary narrative thrust revolves around the trials and tribulations of a dysfunctional brood.

While sports movies do present a keen opportunity to make use of surrounds for ambient crowd noise, in the early»70s, mono was often the way to go, particularly for a budget comedy like this.

Structurally, it could be compared to Kurosawa's Rashomon for its subjective cross-examination of Nola's loves; but this delightful low - budget comedy, with its all black cast and black humour, is 100 per cent Lee.

This low - budget comedy has passed 100 million dollars at the box office — a feat that seemed impossible a few months ago.

Trailers for mainstream, big - budget comedies can occasionally leave you cold.