Sentences with phrase «comedy about female»

This is, for the most part, a comedy about female empowerment as viewed through the lens of self - help stuff.

A screwball comedy about female friendship and intellectual - property theft (well, not quite, but we'll get to that), Mistress America breathlessly tags along as Brooke makes wild gesticulations and snappy pronouncements, by way of mentoring the decade - younger Tracy Fishko (Lola Kirke), a shy suburbanite newly installed in the freshman dorms at Barnard.

Not exact matches

In the end, he had to put on the only completely crueltyfree film he could find, a comedy about the Jamaican Olympic bobsled team, but I still managed to cry when they crossed the finishing line and wondered whether this transformation into a pathetic weepy female was permanent.

Show creator and co-writer Tilke Hill describes it as a dark comedy about a search for female friendship that ends up in murder.

Being the self - appointed» Best Female Comedy Duo on YouTube», The Wing Girls actually consists of a crazy crew crafting funny videos about relationships, social media, and girls vs. boys stuff.

The New Adventures of Old Christine is a comedy about a 35 - year - old divorced mom (Julia Louis - Dreyfus, Seinfeld), who runs a 30 - minute female - only gym with Here's a list of my favorite shows of the year, followed by other highlights, a recap of the year and a brief word on each show.

Director Tom Dey's film is yet another by - the - numbers romantic comedy where the same tired escapades ensue, including one character's climactic discovery of the other's secret (in this case, when Tripp finds out about Paula's career as a female Hitch), and their eventual reunion at the end.

«To the Bone» Marti Noxon, a longtime symbol of female empowerment in TV for her work on «Buffy the Vampire Slayer» and «UnREAL,» makes her feature directorial debut with a pitch - black comedy about her own struggle with anorexia.

Co-created by Rae and Larry Wilmore, the HBO hit comedy about the two women navigating work and relationships in south Los Angeles explores the black female experience not really seen onscreen since UPN's Girlfriends.

The result is the best female - fronted Hollywood comedy in years, and a movie that just happens to almost incidentally be about women, if that makes sense.

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.

The male comedy («Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates» with Zak Efron and Adam Devine) cost about $ 13 million more than the female one («Bad Moms» with Mila Kunis and Kristen Bell), which grossed 41 % more its opening weekend, off slightly better reviews.

Netflix releases a brief but bright teaser trailer for GLOW, the upcoming comedy series about the 1980s female wrestling circuit.

Pitch Perfect 3 (Universal Home Entertainment) is the third installment in the musical - comedy franchise about the Bellas, a female a cappella group.

In addition, director Chris Nelson sat down to talk about entering the female comedy world with Wilson and Raphael, and just letting these girls open up a whole can of crazy on the big screen with outlandish fashion and antics.

A cerebral comedy - drama about a woman discovering who she really is, female artists, and the female gaze, based on Chris Kraus's slow - burner novel.

We talked about the importance of making a sex positive comedy, the financial risks of making a sexually active female protagonist and where this film falls in the rom - com timeline.

This is not a comedy about exploring the strength of female sexuality, but a movie where a director gets to show Cameron Diaz parade around half naked for most of the movie.

UPDATE: After some uproar and general disbelief that Sony Pictures was planning a different all - male Ghostbusters to come after the forthcoming all - female reboot of the paranormal comedy franchise from director Paul Feig, Badass Digest did some digging and clarified some details, many of which were just as easily assumed, but are nonetheless comforting for anyone confused or worried about what this meant.

Elizabeth Banks makes her impressive feature directorial debut in «Pitch Perfect 2» as well as produces and reprises her role as an A Capella judge in the sequel to 2012's hit musical comedy about the Barden Bellas, the first all - female group to win a national title.

The actress will play one of the female leads in this spy comedy about a British secret agent forced to team up with his soccer hooligan brother.

With last month's Bridesmaids becoming that rare surprise success with audiences, critics, and box office alike, many have insisted that the female raunchy comedy is about to get a moment in the sun.

in which she plays a therapist who gets mixed up in her client's lives; Kurt Russell & Kate Hudson will star in the TV series Barbary Coast, a period drama about the gold rush in the 19th century; Kate McKinnon may star in the new back - to - school comedy Senior Year; Nicole Beharie, who was so amazing in Shame (2011) and then starred in TV's Sleepy Hollow, will play the lead female role in the remake of 90s thriller Jacob's Ladder; The Golden Globes will take place on January 8th, 2017 this coming awards season.

«Talya Lavie's Zero Motivation, a dark comedy about the life of Israel's female soldiers, took the jury prize for best narrative feature at the Tribeca Film Festival, while Marshall Curry's Point and Shoot, the account of a young American caught up in the Libyan Revolution, was named best documentary feature.

Those signature bits of wordplay are all but guaranteed to show up in this third installment in the surprisingly successful comedy series about all - female a cappella group the Barden Bellas, who reunite for a USO tour hoping to recapture some of their former glory after failing in their initial attempts at post-college life.

GIRLS TRIP: A lot has been made about female - driven crass comedies this year, seeing as we were #blessed with four of them.

The third installment in the popular comedy franchise about an all - female vocal group begins with an explosion aboard a yacht, as Beca and Fat Amy (Anna Kendrick and Rebel Wilson) are shown running for their lives while flames threaten — as if the duo were stuck in an off - brand 1980s cable action flick.

How exquisitely ironic that a would - be Enfant terrible who whines and complains about a more successful filmmaker's female character being improbably, impossibly, glibly perfect and hyper - competent in every way would write, in his universally reviled new Netflix original movie Bright, a sloppy inter-species buddy comedy team where both halves «unexpectedly» turn out to be magical figures of destiny.

Inside Netflix's deluxe new office space on Sunset Boulevard, Alison Brie and Betty Gilpin, the stars of the streaming service's upcoming female wrestling comedy «GLOW» are deep in conversation about the power of women demanding to be heard.

Blending together romantic comedy tropes and a hefty dose of cynicism towards the female - challenged Marvel universe, «Black Widow: Age of Me» is about as refreshing, reflexive, and just plain funny as «SNL» sketches get.

Post-Sundance, both filmmakers are continuing on this path by starting work on similarly female - driven, dramedy projects; with Akhavan is «developing a comedic television series about the women in an inpatient rehabilitation center for eating disorders» and Robespierre is working on «a comedy about divorce.»

«The To Do List» may not be a film of great substance, but this comedy about a young girl's strange, semi-erotic journey from untouched maiden to minx accomplishes something both rare and significant for a teen movie: it places a female character in the central role as unapologetic sexual aggressor.

The actress beat out Kristen Wiig and Gillian Jacobs for the female lead in Sacha Baron Cohen's comedy about a former dictator's trip to America.

Regardless of what you may think about an all female Ghostbusters reboot, the newest film to be included in the classic comedy franchise will be heading into theaters next summer.

Alas, poor Jennifer Aniston — she spent last year being chased around by Gerard Butler in the pitiful «The Bounty Hunter,» and now she's kicking off 2011 as the female lead in an Adam Sandler romantic comedy about an apparently dignity - free woman who agrees to pretend she's the ex-wife of her boss (Sandler) so he can woo someone younger.

Director Paul Feig's female - led reboot of classic comedy franchise Ghostbusters has been in production for several weeks already, and the director hasn't been shy about sharing teases of what's to come.

A League of Their Own Rated PG for adult situations / language Rotten Tomatoes Score: 77 % Celebrating its 25th Anniversary is this classic comedy about a group of women who join an all - female baseball league while the men of the country are off fighting during WWII.

Instead, it's Byrne carrying the female comedy torch with some strong, laugh - out - loud moments that further establish her as a humor gold mine - the same can be said about Efron.

Despite the meager statistics about female directors, women won 3 of the 11 D.G.A. categories on Saturday: Beth McCarthy - Miller of Veep for comedy directing; Reed Morano of The Handmaid's Tale for drama directing; and Niki Caro of Anne with an E for children's - program directing.

She is currently in packaging for The Yogi Trademark — a female - driven indie comedy about narcissism meeting mindfulness in the global yoga arena — working alongside Chris Thomas and Dan Damman, a San Francisco writing / directing team that recently completed a year - long residency at San Francisco Film Society's FilmHouse.

Over the years, medical there have been a variety of crude comedies that try to elicit laughter through gross masturbation sequences and relentless jokes about the male and the female anatomy.