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Two classic comedies on 35 mm.
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Starring numerous actors who have gone on to become huge stars, this wacky 1980s - set comedy that looks at the last day of camp has become a cult classic.
However, this year's ceremony was simulcast on 10 different networks, including MTV2, VH1, VH1 Classic, BET, Centric, CMT, Comedy Central, Logo and TV Land.
The crowd laughed nervously when Salome asked for the head of John the Baptist and when Herodias nagged her husband, Herod, about hitting on her daughter — murder and incest not exactly classic comedy moments.
there's comedy value in that, and that means headlines — Crazy Eddie, Unsteady Eddie, The Abominable Snowman, Inspector Clouseau on Skis — which generate sponsors.On a big jump, the classic error is to break the Golden Rule of Ski - Jumping: «Don't let your knees bend».
The Chaser team has since gone on to produce Classic comedy in just about every corner of Australian media, including print, online, radio, television and Christmas crackers.
Based on the classic novel «Vile Bodies» by Evelyn Waugh, this satirical comedy and love story is set in 1930's London.
A sordid tale that resembles many noir classic films from the forties and fifties, where its protagonists are police partners based on the duality of buddy movies but without the comedy.
Either because they were being compared to some of the classics in the horror / comedy genre or, as the consensus on here states, there's not a good enough of either comedy or horror in the film.
It's a film that has the plot of a 90s romantic comedy but the weight and assurance of a Coen Brothers» classic... Burshtein has cemented her status as a filmmaker international audiences should have their eyes on.
On television, he was among the all - star cast of the classic British comedy I»M ALAN PARTRIDGE.
Born in 1937 in West Cliff - on - Sea, England, screenwriter - turned - director Dick Clement cut his teeth on the small screen in his mid - to late twenties, as a BBC television writer and director, including such now - classic programs as the sitcom The Likely Lads (1964), the Dudley Moore and Peter Cook series Not Only... But Also (1965), and the brief Steptoe and Son successor Mr. Aitch (1967), starring Harry H. Corbett.Clement segued into big - screen comedy in 1966, co-scripting (with Ian La Frenais) the Michael Winner - directed picture The Jokers.
Oscar - winners Cary Grant («The Awful Truth,» «North by Northwest») and Katharine Hepburn («The African Queen,» «On Golden Pond») star in this screwball comedy classic about a madcap heiress who upsets the staid existence of a straitlaced zoology professor.
After a string of brilliant comedies, director Wes Anderson for his fifth film turns to a stop - motion animation take on a classic Roald Dahl book.
Goldie Hawn, «The First Wives Club» Perhaps the biggest injustice on this list is that Hawn, a triple threat wildly gifted in the slapstick department, did not win any of the awards her character Elise owns in this classic 1996 comedy.
Reminiscent in tone to classic dark screwball comedies like Ruthless People, director Seth Gordon (Four Christmases, The King of Kong) succeeds by keeping the energy high, the actors flowing naturally with off - the - cuff reactions, and by keeping the tone light, the performances spot on, and the quips lightning - fast throughout, even during the pitch - black comedy moments.
QUEENSLAND, Australia (February 17, 2015)-- Production has commenced on location in Australia on Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer Films» epic comedy adventure «Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales,» directed by Espen Sandberg & Joachim Rønning («Kon - Tiki»), the fifth entry in the blockbuster franchise inspired by the classic Disney Theme Parks attraction, which has reaped $ 3.7 billion in worldwide box office.
The film tells the tale of the making of Hollywood dreamer Tommy Wiseau's dreadful movie The Room, a wannabe serious drama that turned into a certified cult comedy classic on the midnight show circuit — certainly not by original intention.
The film tells the tale of the making of Hollywood dreamer Tommy Wiseau's dreadful movie The Room, a wannabe serious drama that turned into a certified cult comedy classic on the midnight show circuit — certainly not by original... Read
Up until this point, John Cusack had spent almost his entire cinematic career in teen comedies, from Class to The Sure Thing via cult classic Better Off Dead to the misfired Hot Pursuit, Cusack's unique and very human screen persona stole every show he was in - but by 1988, he'd become determined to move on into more serious and adult cinema.
Following the modern cult classic In Bruges, Martin McDonagh fully delivered on that film's vast promise with Seven Psychopaths — a fiery genre cocktail of crime & dark comedy.
Jennifer Aniston is a Golden Globe - and Emmy Award - winning actress, thanks to 10 seasons playing Rachel Green on the classic television comedy FRIENDS.
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Filmmaker Chadha is back with another uneven comedy, although unlike Bride & Prejudice, this isn't actually a Bollywood variation on the Frank Capra classic: it's a London farce about arranged marriage with a ghostly twist.The...
The two are also scheduled to write the scripts for Reynolds» remake of Clue - the classic 1985 comedy based on the board game - and Michael Bay's upcoming film 6 Underground.
Turner Classic Movies and Fathom Events combine to show the film that topped the American Film Institute's list of 100 all - time greatest comedies in 24 Bay Area theaters on Sunday, June 11, and Wednesday, June 14.
In their previous screenplays, Wright and Pegg have very shrewdly thrown genre conventions on their collective ear; they clearly love horror movies and action flicks and buddy comedies, and they understand the structure of those films with such clarity that they can rewrite the rules, scramble up our expectations and wind up with a creation that's both an homage to and a subversion of past classics.
Next week we get Ruby Sparks (very good, unexpected, non-traditional romantic comedy), Killer Joe (William Friedkin's grotty NC - 17 thriller, starring Matthew McConaughey), Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (documentary about the Chinese activist, said to be very inspiring), The Graduate (45th anniversary engagement of Mike Nichols» classic), Farewell My Queen (French period drama, said to be quite good), plus the wide releases of the Total Recall (possibly only for junk food fanatics, but who knows yet), so it's a good weekend to catch up on any holdovers you might have missed.
This smart riff on the Coen brothers» 1996 classic Fargo is is a blend of wonderfully offbeat black comedy and much darker themes involving a central character who seems to be mentally unstable.
Alfred Hitchcock's newly restored silent comedy classic, «Champagne,» will be streamed live at the British Film Institute and online at The Space on Thursday, Sept. 27, at 7:30 p.m. (GMT).
The show comes on the heels of Netflix's 2015 limited series prequel Wet Hot American Summer: The First Day of Camp, which was an eight - episode continuation of the cult classic 2001 comedy.
H. Jon Benjamin on his uniquely loose style of voice acting, and it's roots on his first big voiceover gig on the late 1990s comedy classic, «Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist.»
Even better, the film has been written and directed by a queer woman: Angela Robinson, who directed the lesbian action - comedy classic D.E.B.S., and who's since been a writer / director on TV shows like The L Word, Hung, True Blood, and How to Get Away With Murder.
For Jerry Lewis» daffy version of this tale, try his 1963 comedy classic «The Nutty Professor,» on TCM this week at 8 p.m. (5 p.m.), Thursday, Sept. 11.
In «Peter Rabbit,» Sony Pictures Animation's «irreverent, contemporary comedy with attitude» about the little dude, Peter's long - standing feud with Mr. McGregor (Domhnall Gleeson, who seems to be hellbent on dominating the space of «beloved kid lit classics, reinvented for the big screen» these days) takes on a new dimension when the pair battle over a charming new neighbor (Rose Byrne), who apparently also adores animals.
The disc opens with the traditional 90 - second promo for classic live action Disney films on DVD, highlighting comedies like The Love Bug, The Parent Trap, and The Absent - Minded Professor.
Among his best known roles are Beef in «Phantom of the Paradise» (recently released on Blu - ray), the overly superstitious Jeff in the classic comedy «Used Cars» and Franklin on the animated hit «The Critic.»
Three classic comedy features on 35 mm.
Peter Rabbit is different: an updated take on a classic piece of literature from Beatrix Potter, mixed in with the raging comedy hijinks of James Corden with a huge 360 - fan experience marketing campaign that Sony is known for on its titles like Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and Spider - Man: Homecoming (see details further down).
For his second feature after the gentle teen comedy The Myth of the American Sleepover, writer - director David Robert Mitchell has produced the most unexpected and downright unnerving fright flick in years, a film that riffs smartly on the classics while adding something ineffable of its own.
Dumb & Dumber To, the sequel to Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels» classic comedy movie, has posted $ 38.1 million on its opening weekend at the box - office...
TUESDAY, JANUARY 25th — Park City, Utah — Sony Pictures Classics has acquired US and Latin American rights to the action comedy THE GUARD, written and directed by John Michael McDonagh and starring Brendan Gleeson as an unorthodox Irish policeman who joins forces with a straitlaced FBI agent, played by Don Cheadle, to take on an international drug - smuggling gang.
A thrilling, emotional sequel to a tricky first installment, Sam Raimi's NYC adventure allows Tobey Maguire to give up the suit for a bit (a classic comedy sequence set to «Raindrops Keep Fallin» on My Head»), while allowing the great Alfred Molina to embody one of the genre's most memorable villains, Doctor Octopus.
I know it's not only me, but because of his performance in the cult classic comedy Office Space, I kept internally thinking that he and his family have a case of «The Mondays» on their hands.
Murphy Brown is returning to CBS next fall, 20 years after the classic comedy ended its original run on the network.
The Party is her brisk (71 minutes), brutally snappy take on the classic British drawing - room comedy, and she hauls it right into the 21st century with a cutting takedown of the anxieties and hypocrisies of highly educated, well - off, left - wing Londoners.
DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: Romantic Romp from Woody Allen Arrives on DVD This delightful romantic comedy from Woody Allen is easily on par with the best of the legendary director's battle - of - the - sexes classics made back during the prime of his career.
Pegg and Frost went on to co-write the lackluster extraterrestrial comedy «Paul» on their own (and Pegg appeared in two «Star Trek» pictures) while Wright made the stellar «Scott Pilgrim vs. the World,» a film which failed to connect in its initial release but has become something of an instant cult classic.
Recent Blu - ray and DVD releases include the Italian sex comedy - drama La Seduzione, a Hannah Arendt documentary, the lost German classic Variete and Emmy - winning performances by Harvey Korman on «The Carol Burnett Show.»
We had classic Ealing / Alec Guinness comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets recently, and now here comes The Ladykillers, possibly my favorite Ealing / Guinness comedy, playing on TCM on Monday.