Sentences with phrase «caper comedy»

«Going in Style» was a 1979 crime caper comedy that earned a special award at the Venice Film Festival for stars George Burns, Art Carney and Lee Strasberg.

An old - school caper comedy, this goofy romp struggles to surmount its badly contrived screenplay.

It wants to be a caper comedy - drama about angling contest fraud.

There's not much to say about a jerry - built caper comedy, except that this one has timeliness on it side, and some first - rate clowns.

So this caper comedy / romance wasn't going to be that much - needed blockbuster comeback for him.

It's a politically incorrect caper comedy called «Maktub,» which means destiny or fate.

He made his directorial debut in 2004 with Garden State and most recently directed a remake of the 1979 Martin Brest caper comedy Going in Style, starring Academy Award winners Alan Arkin, Michael Caine, and Morgan Freeman.

Bottle Rocket is a caper comedy about a couple of twenty - something Texans (just like Anderson and the Wilsons were when they made the film) determined to become master thieves.

Also new this week: «Tower Heist» (Universal), a caper comedy for the modern economy, stars Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Matthew Broderick and Tea Leoni (Blu - ray and DVD, plus Digital Download and On Demand); «London Boulevard» (Sony), a crime drama with Colin Farrell and Keira Knightly (Blu - ray, DVD and Digital Download, available at Redbox kiosks); «The Son of No One» (Anchor Bay), a cop drama with Channing Tatum, Tracy Morgan, and Al Pacino (Blu - ray and DVD, available at Redbox kiosks); and «The Way» (ARC Entertainment), an inspirational drama with Martin Sheen (DVD and VOD, available at Redbox kiosks).

Ahead of its release on May 4th, we've got an exclusive clip from the star - studded caper comedy The Con is On starring Uma Thurman, Tim Roth, Maggie Q, Parker Posey, Alice Eve and Sofia Vergara.

Plus, the two films make total sense as a double - bill, both of them playful, youthful riffs on the mystery genre: where Chen's frisky, jewel - toned romantic caper comedy prompts thoughts of Stanley Donen dancing with Wong Kar - wai, Katz quietly clothes the ghosts of Raymond Chandler and Arthur Conan Doyle in dirty jeans and doleful wit.

This stylish, star - studded caper comedy stars Uma Thurman (KILL BILL franchise) as Harriet and Tim Roth (THE HATEFUL EIGHT) as Peter, a con - artist couple cooking up a jewel - theft scam in L.A. to pay off sexy gangster Irina (played by Maggie Q).

Add Naomi Watts and Sean Penn in Doug Liman's Fair Game, Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams in Sundance Grand Jury entrant Blue Valentine, Gotham award nominee Winter's Bone and the animated adventure Megamind for the kids, and the more commercial - leaning contingent of entries is well and truly covered, with Welcome To The Rileys (starring James Gandolfini, Melissa Leo and Twilight «s Kristen Stewart) and Brit caper comedy Wild Target rounding out the mix.

A silly crime / heist caper comedy that is pleasing and well presented in the stunning Montana wilderness.

«Budapest,» a captivating caper comedy about a high - level concierge, is up for nine Academy Awards, including three nominations for Anderson — picture, director and original screenplay.

It doesn't feel like an average mainstream romance / caper comedy, and that's maybe the strongest thing about it.

Back when it was planned as an African - American «Ocean's Eleven,» this project might have been edgy, but the script has been whitewashed into a generic caper comedy with pretensions of timeliness.

Will be awesome if... director Brett Ratner gets out of his own way, and doesn't make this the «X-Men 3» of caper comedies; Murphy can channel some of his «Trading Places» - era humor.

Not exact matches

Fortunately, Langdon and his comedic cohorts live on as nearly four generations of admirers have laughed along with their hilarious comedy capers.

In a Rube Goldberg caper like this one, with its roots in glide - through - the - dark - side comedies like «After Hours,» it's all about the execution — about how writing, directing, and acting fuse with a timing just nimble enough to be funny and implausibly convincing.

This crime comedy chronicles what happens when they agree to the crazy caper.

Julia Stiles provides the one shining light in an otherwise dull, unfunny, cringe - inducing comedy caper.

THN has been lucky enough to be invited to the lush surroundings of the famous Savoy Hotel in London, which coincidentally also happens to be a major location in the upcoming comedy caper we're here to find out about — GAMBIT, a remake of the classic 1966 Michael Caine / Shirley MacLaine film of the same name.

Ensemble comedies are a mainstay of classic cinema — from crime capers to family drama - comedies, the sub-genre is a tricky one to get right — but nothing lights up the screen quite like a cast that just click.

Peter Bradshaw: A ridiculously enjoyable caper directed with brio by Steven Soderbergh, who brings off the combination of action and tongue - in - cheek comedy which eluded the Frank Sinatra version

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A scrap - metal caper / anarcho - comedy featuring Jane Fonda, extravagantly coiffed, once again playing a sex worker and co-starring with Donald Sutherland.

A little known and very underrated comedy crime caper.

The Tarantino crime comedy is, in many ways, a lost art — the flood of bloody, witty, ensemble - driven capers in the late»90s gave audiences everything from The Way of the Gun to The Big Hit.

Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams star in theis year's hit comedy mystery caper Game Night.

It doesn't so much re-litigate her case — tried in real court and the one of public opinion — as jazz up the juiciest details: the «motivational» maternal shit - talk that Janney performs like a profane comedy routine; the on - the - ice outbursts, sometimes punctuating Gillespie's robustly staged skating sequences; and every twist and turn of Gillooly's hapless criminal conspiracy, which turns the backstretch of the movie into a dimwit caper, dominated by Paul Walter Hauser's broadly farcical take on Eckhardt and his mouth - breathing delusions of grandeur.

The Golden Globe and SAG - winning actress starred in the 2016 crime comedy caper «The Nice Guys» and has a big role in 2017's «Fifty Shades Darker,» the buzzy sequel to «Fifty Shades of Grey.»

Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy team - up for this sizzling comedy caper.

This weekend you should be heading out to support the original dark comedy crime caper that is The Nice Guys.

Perhaps the best British comedy since the heyday of Python, since John Cleese deliberately attempted to move away from satirical silliness and back to a more inclusive, plot - driven, unmistakably British brand of comic caper.

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It's impossible not to view The Monuments Men in advance as some sort of «Ocean's 14» / Dad's Army comedy caper, and George Clooney's overwhelming presence certainly cements that.

While it does manage some capering, and even surprises with sporadic comedy chuckles, it tends to jump - ship too shrilly into the dramatically saccharine to really feel cohesive overall.

by Walter Chaw The stupid version of Groundhog Day, or, more to the point, the capering warm - up act for Charlie Kaufman's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the latest Adam Sandler vehicle 50 First Dates is just like almost every other alleged comedy released in the first quarter of any year in that lacks pace and energy.

This wouldn't be such a glaring issue were there, in fact, much of a plot to start with, but in an attempt to side - step accusations of retreading old ground, screenwriter Kay Cannon opts to stumble from musical comedy to crime caper and back.

Lucas and Moore also did a movie called Flypaper, a sort of comedy caper that had its world premiere at Sundance.

Jeff Goldblum, who first worked with Wes Anderson on The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, was thrilled to reunite with the director again on his new comedy - drama caper, The Grand Budapest Hotel.

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,» the Coen Brother's genre - busting new comedy crime caper set in 1950s Hollywood, features a terrific cast that includes George Clooney, Josh Brolin, Channing Tatum, Alden Ehrenreich, Jonah Hill, Ralph Fiennes, Tilda Swinton, Scarlett Johansson, and Frances McDormand.

Action - comedy caper RED 2 will see most of the crew from Robert Schwentke's adaptation of the cult graphic novel by Warren Eliis and Cully...

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The happy result was an all - time classic of the caper - comedy genre.

Colin Farrell appears in this black comedy crime - caper from playwright Mark O'Rowe and theatre director John Crowley.

Rian Johnson, who received great critical acclaim for his modern film noir homage, Brick, crafts another genre homage to the old con capers with The Brothers Bloom, mixing the stories you'd find in such films as The Sting with the light comedy you'd occasionally find in a Marx Brothers comic adventure.

What starts out as a smart, sassy comedy about infertility gets bogged down in its own potty humour, ultimately becoming a dull caper romp that's impossible to care about.