Sentences with phrase «comedic film»

It's often difficult to find real, meaningful character development in comedic films.

Below, we present twelve overlooked comedic film performances.

Draft Day would appear to be the least comedic film he's directed to date.

I don't think I'm good at making comedic films and work mostly in the more dramatic kind of fare.

The A.V. Club's own Ignatiy Vishnevetsky called the The Lobster, the latest surreal, darkly comedic film from Dogtooth director Yorgos Lanthimos, «funny,» «unsettling,» and, «occasionally gruesome» when he watched it at this year's Cannes Film Festival.

It is a delightful little picture about dreadful, vile people, easily one of the more watchable and entertaining comedic films of the year.

10:15 am — TCM — The Man Who Came to Dinner A rare comedic film for Bette Davis, though the film mainly focuses on Monty Woolley as an acerbic newspaper critic forced to take up residence with a midwestern family when he breaks his hip outside their house.

8:00 pm — TCM — The Man Who Came to Dinner A rare comedic film for Bette Davis, though the film mainly focuses on Monty Woolley as an acerbic newspaper critic forced to take up residence with a midwestern family when he breaks his hip outside their house.

As the decades progress, moviegoers have seen the way comedic films have evolved.

He first gained national exposure on Saturday Night Live and later went on to star in a number of critically and commercially successful comedic films, including Caddyshack (1980), Ghostbusters (1984), and Groundhog Day (1993).

Directed by Mark Pellington, best known for the psychological thriller «Arlington Road,» this darkly comedic film follows a depressed man, Henry Poole (Luke Wilson), who buys a house in the mediocre suburbs of Southern California.

The one exception has been Tyler Perry, whose more comedic films have passed the $ 50 million mark and even rose as high as $ 90 M with his drag act Madea in a title role.

Alright, so this probably won't get Nats Oscar ® number two for best supporting actress, nor will it go down in history as the greatest comedic film of our time — but what it will do is make you laugh.

No other comedic film - maker in the past decade has been as prolific, influential and just as damn ubiquitous as Judd Apatow.

Almost Christmas, starring Danny Glover, is yet another example of the shrill comedic films that have been trotted out by Hollywood every holiday season for the past decade.

Inspired by French comedic film Voyage Surprise (1947), directed by Pierre Prévert, the exhibition «explores the idea of traveling in a broader spectrum and its possible associations: dreams, expectations, idealizations, fantasies, escapes, frustrations, fear of the unknown,» according to an accompanying statement by da Cunha.

2015 TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL: There's a point during Patrick Brice «s darkly comedic film «The Overnight» where the humor goes from infectiously enjoyable to awkwardly unnerving.

Suddenly, every comedic film was being compared to The Farrelly Bros., and screenwriters rushed to fill their scripts with gross - out humor.

Allison Janney's performance as Tonya's unapologetically abrasive and filthy - mouthed mother (LaVona Golden) is reason enough to view the dark, yet comedic film.

I've always associated Paul Rudd to rom - coms and comedic films, and honestly, before watching Ant Man I have never thought he would have been able to interpret a superhero, but oh boy, I was wrong.

Raising Arizona is directed by the Coen Brothers who are just amazing when it comes to comedic films, except their most recent which I am not a fan of Burn After Reading.

Nevertheless, audiences find these moments utterly hilarious when we see them happen again and again in a comedic film.

But while Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi has already expressed interest in doing a comedic film centered around Black Widow, the studio should probably opt to make the movie a, pre serious espionage thriller, and it already has the perfect directorial team in Joe and Anthony Russo.

Julianne Moore, Greta Gerwig and producer Damon Cardasis at the Berlinale press conference for their comedic film «Maggie's Plan,» directed by Rebecca Miller.

«A Million Ways to Die in the West» is a comedic film that not only earns its «R» rating for vulgar humor and language, but for it's violent deaths.

He has gone on to direct films in a variety of genres like his horror film Prey, the comedic film True Memoirs of an International Assassin, and the action thriller Non-Stop.

Slapstick violence is a staple of this comedic film with characters being hit, electrocuted, run over, dragged behind vehicles and attacked by piranhas.

Why we're excited to see it: The comedic film, a hit at Cannes, boasts a 91 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Adventurous French director Bruno Dumont will be going to Cannes for the sixth time with this comedic film set in 1910; if it's like his other work, it'll be divisive.

A comedic film has to check a lot of boxes to do any business.

Not one comedic film has won an Academy award since 1977.

Port of Harlem summer program Features «House Maid,» a comedic film about a wife who loses her man to their maid.