Sentences with phrase «comedy damsel»

With just a month to go until it arrives in cinemas, a poster and trailer have been released for David and Nathan Zellner's upcoming western comedy Damsel which stars Robert Pattinson and Mia Wasikowska; check them out here... It's the age of The Wild West, circa 1870.

Magnolia has unveiled the official trailer for the western comedy Damsel, which premiered at the Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals earlier this year.

Performance Greta Gerwig, Damsels In Distress Whit Stillman's characters have always been a little eccentric, but in his»80s - style campus comedy Damsels In Distress, the heroines are downright zany, and possibly mentally ill.

Not exact matches

And in the indie comedy territory, Whit Stillman made a triumphant return with «Damsels In Distress,» while the Duplass Brothers were behind the charming «Jeff Who Lives At Home,» which only missed out on this list by the skin of its teeth.

Damsels in Distress (PG - 13 for sexuality and mature themes) Female empowerment comedy about three college coeds (Greta Gerwig, Carrie MacLemore and Megalyn Echikunwoke) who decide to do something about the chauvinistic environment on campus.

Overrated Damsels In Distress Not nearly as clever as the film, or its adherents, seem to think, Whit Stillman's Damsels In Distress is a tone - deaf attempt to change gears from the observational comedy of his early films to a more stylized, absurdist mode.

Stillman fans may also want to shimmy over to the Cinefamily on June 1, when the director will also be in attendance, for a Q&A following a screening of his latest comedy, Damsels in Distress.

She then moved into a slightly less demanding capacity playing a pseudo damsel - in - distress in Guy Ritchie's throwback action - comedy The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (Admittedly this role hewed much too close to stereotype, though Vikander still made it work).

It's definitely the most ridiculous medieval comedy where there's magic and damsels in distress and we get anal sex jokes from Danny McBride.

Plaza shows impressive range and commitment in a bravura role that takes her from a dainty damsel to the Evil Dead, and allows for both existential anguish and some terrifically silly physical comedy.

«Damsels In Distress «In a decent year for comedy, two femme - centric examples of the genre were battling it out of for this place, and while «Bridesmaids» is certainly the best of the Judd Apatow films to date and as consistently funny a mainstream film as has come along since «Anchorman,» nothing brought me greater joy than Whit Stillman «s return after 13 long years away — «Damsels in Distress.»

And the movie's love story is surprisingly sweet, especially for those first two - thirds (before Morena Baccarin's Vanessa becomes a generic damsel in distress), something that plays into Reynolds's previous success in the romantic comedy genre.

After a a long hiatus over a decade, Stillman returned to filmmaking with the dark 2011 college comedy «Damsels in Distress,» and later made a pilot for Amazon TV called «The Cosmopolitans.»

-- Jane Austen, «Pride and Prejudice,» Chapter VI Lady Susan Vernon (Kate Beckinsale, «Total Recall»), the main protagonist of Whit Stillman's («Damsels in Distress») period comedy Love & Friendship is determined to get what she wants...

Damsels in Distress - Though not as clever as it thinks it is, Whit Stillman's quirky college comedy has its appeal.

Aja Naomi King's movie ascendancy as the slave girl Cherry in Nate Parker's blazing battle cry, The Birth of a Nation (based on the Nat Turner rebellion of 1831), is a complete boomerang from the role that made her television rep.. After an assortment of credits in film («Positive Polly» in Whit Stillman's Damsels in Distress and Rosa in the underseen comedy The Rewrite) and in prime - time series such as Emily Owens, M.D. and The Blacklist, King was whisked aboard the mother ship of Shondaland's How to Get Away with Murder, starring the inviolable Viola Davis.