Sentences with phrase «comedy about a fantasy»

Currently, Mark can be seen on the small screen as the lead in FX's «The League,» a semi-scripted comedy about a fantasy football league.

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Netflix description: «Emma Stone and Jonah Hill star in this remake of a Norwegian dark - comedy series about an institutionalized man who lives a fantasy life in his dreams.»

Part absurdist comedy about the institution of marriage, part paranoid Kafkaesque fantasy, it's a minor - key reverie on the way our own lives can sometimes feel alien to us.

Dave (PG - 13) may be the first presidential comedy that's rooted not merely in a specific administration but in its first 100 days: It's a blissed - out satirical fantasy about the dawn of Clintonism.

But the implausibility of the plan, along with any doubts about whether Jimmy can pull it off, are built into the equation: Logan Lucky is a Robin Hood fantasy and a uniquely Soderberghian lark, an ensemble comedy that's simultaneously effervescent and cerebral.

Taking the year's prestigious Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, where it was acquired by Annapurna Pictures, «Sorry to Bother You» is a fantasy - inflected comedy about Cassius Green, a telemarketer, who discovers a magical key to professional success, propelling him into a strange, dark universe.

A well - crafted musical, an imaginative macabre fantasy, and a subtle, well - observed comedy (though I did wish that a maggot (Enn Reitel) with Peter Lorre's voice whistled «In the Hall of the Mountain King,» just once), Corpse Bride is about love and loyalty — the importance of vows and the eternity of words.

Venice Film Festival If any one title in the Shakespeare library has been sufficiently fiddled about with on screen, it's «The Tempest,» among the most tonally malleable of his comedies, and a fantasy that gifts filmmakers with obvious opportunities for spectacle.

«A consistently entertaining, character - driven comedy... Not since Trekkie fantasy «Free Enterprise» has a homespun geeksploitation comedy plunged so deep into the heart of nerd culture and lived to tell about it.»

* Asked how he feels about going from very small indie films to a massive, effects - driven fantasy / comedy, Green said: «Well, just like probably all of you guys like to see different kinds of movies every week — a little of this, a little of that — it's fun professionally to, like, get in the ring and design creatures and have guys in suits and puppets and just, y ’ know, bring in all this stuff... I remember when I was a kid, and if something like «Behind The Scenes of Return of The Jedi» would come on, I'd just be glued to the screen, wishing that one day I'd be able to get my hands dirty doing something like that.

Steve Rose: The actor on why he's happy inside Frank Sidebottom's fibreglass head for Lenny Abrahamson's comedy about an eccentric band — and his own teenage fantasies of rock stardom

(In Japanese with subtitles) The Lonely Maiden (PG - 13 for profanity, nudity and brief fantasy violence) Crime comedy, set in Massachusetts, about three museum security guards (Morgan Freeman, Christopher Walken and William H. Macy) who hatch an inside job to steal several masterpieces in order to prevent a new curator (Todd Weeks) from transferring their favorite works of art to another institution.

It will also be an interesting compliment to the other fantasy flick she is about to start shooting, the Danny McBride comedy Your Highness directed by David Gordon Green.

This 1982 comedy - drama is a commentary on celebrity and the worship of celebrity, and, the fantasy that everyone who isn't a celebrity has about somehow, someday becoming one or drawing close to one.

What's interesting about filmmaking is that, if it's a comedy, or a horror film, or a melodrama, or a chick flick, or a science fiction film, or a fantasy film, or a Western, it's exactly the same process.

* NORTH - The season's most imaginative comedy spins the unpredictable fantasy of a gifted 11 - year - old named North, who can't figure out why his parents only think about their own problems.

Trollhunter is a wondrous blend of fantasy, comedy and horror, and manages to be about a creature that rarely appears in monster movies.

Memoirs of an Invisible Man is a rather melancholy comedy - fantasy and action picture that for some time has been a pet project of its star, and among the personal traces of Chevy Chase in the conception of this project is, not unimportantly, a certain ambivalence about his own image.

Viz recently raised the prices on their digital manga, but the Google Play store is offering a price break on three titles for this week only: Every volume of One Piece (the best - selling manga in Japan), Demon Love Spell (a romance / comedy fantasy about a shrine maiden who accidentally seals a sexy demon and has to team up with him to fight monsters), and Case Closed (a detective series) is only $ 5.99, a buck off list.

This is the place to find more information about my books that include romantic comedies, mysteries, historical fantasy, and even self - help.

In a previous blog post I discussed a report that gave the following information about ebook market shares: romance 16 %, paranormal 15 %, thriller 12 %, mystery 12 %, fantasy 8 %, science fiction 7 %, young adult 5 %, comedy 4 %.

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