Sentences with phrase «comedy performance right»

And for those comedians and comediennes in training, introduce them to everything from dinosaur jokes to ghost jokes for their own stand - up comedy performance right in your living room.

Not exact matches

Gone are the days of reviewing the stage performances of a play which is not only still being written right in front of you, you sometimes can't tell whether it's a drama, a farce or a comedy.

In 1987, she made her breakthrough film performance in the romantic comedy Making Mr. Right, ideally cast as the high - fashion publicist Frankie Stone opposite the literally robotic John Malkovich.

Critic Consensus: Sweet, smart, and quirky, Waitress hits the right, bittersweet notes through this romantic comedy through its witty script and a superb performance by Keri Russell.

Critics Consensus: Sweet, smart, and quirky, Waitress hits the right, bittersweet notes through this romantic comedy through its witty script and a superb performance by Keri Russell.

Some of the biggest and brightest stars in British comedy appear in this performance film, which documents a revue staged by John Cleese of Monty Python as a benefit for the human rights group Amnesty International.

So many of our most interesting creative voices have dealt with mental illness (certainly a subject in open discussion right now with the recent passing of Robin Williams), and, while Lenny Abrahamson's «Frank» has been billed as a wacky comedy about a guy with a fake head (which it partially is), it's also a dissection of this intersection, driven by a remarkably physical performance by Michael Fassbender.

Running time: 129 minutes Studio: Fox Home Entertainment 3 - Disc DVD Extras: Widescreen theatrical feature film, unrated director's cut, Wolverine theatrical trailer, Valkyrie, S. Darko, The Wrestler, Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy, commentary by director George Tillman, Jr., screenwriters Reggie Rock Bythewood and Cheo Hodari Coker, and editor Dirk Westervelt, commentary by with Biggie's mom Voletta Wallace, and his manager Wayne Barrow, Behind the Scenes: The Making of Notorious, I Got a Story to Tell: The Lyrics of Biggie Smalls, Notorious Thugs: Casting the Film, Biggie Boot Camp, Anatomy of a B.I.G. Performance, Party & [Expletive](never before seen footage), The B.I.G. Three - Sixty, Directing the Last Moments, It Happened Right Here, The Petersen Exit, The Shooting, The Impala, The Unfortunate Violent Act, The Window, 9 Deleted Scenes, 4 extended / alternate concerts, trailers from: Secret Life of Bees, Gospel Hill and Slumdog Millionaire, digital copy.

A wickedly funny, irreverent comedy, featuring a malapropism - peppered performance by Jennifer Coolidge and an impeccable cast of archetypal characters, Austenland hits all the right notes of the Regency era and our curious infatuation with it.

Nominated for 10 Academy Awards, only winning one for Jessica Lange's (The Postman Always Rings Twice, King Kong) nice supporting performance, Tootsie is a case of a romantic comedy where everything clicks just right.

While a comedy with ample kooky characterizations, satirical situations, and lots of other - worldly effects would seem right up Burton's alley, all he can manage are a few scattered laughs, some hammy performances, and lots of oddball narrative dead ends.

What's worse, the plotting of the film and the way it spins out of this fateful performance is just as fake, managing to lift every single romantic comedy cliche right out of Screenwriting 101 on the way to its supposedly grand climax.

What it gets right on paper is immediately apparent: Casting hot - ticket stars against type as crestfallen romantics struggling to cope with mental illness provides two attractive but ostensibly vacuous mainstream celebrities (Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence) the enviable opportunity to prove their worth with conspicuously «revelatory» performances; meanwhile, the fundamental seriousness of their characters» respective arcs, with Cooper hoping to control the outbursts caused by his bipolar disorder and Lawrence attempting to overcome her grief over her husband's recent death, raise the emotional stakes considerably, elevating largely light material from rote comedy to overtly «adult» drama.

Pacino's constant overacting and long monologues overshadow all other performances, particularly Foxx and LL Cool J. Foxx, who is usually forgettable in lowbrow comedies, demonstrates that with the right material, he can actually act.

His movements, while expertly rooted in traditional physical comedy, were abstracted to the point of becoming a kind of performance art gesture in their own right.