Sentences with phrase «comedy subgenre»

Director Michael Mohan (who previously came to Sundance with One Too Many Mornings and the short Ex-Sex) returns to the festival with this genuine, honest story that I wouldn't simply lump into the romantic comedy subgenre.

We're beyond the era of Airplane and The Naked Gun, but even some of the early Scary Movie films had some merit, and then Walk Hard, Black Dynamite, and Wet Hot American Summer are shining examples of the best the comedy subgenre has to offer.

Not exact matches

As a result, Tales Of Halloween is unusually consistent in tone with few missteps, while spanning subgenres from straightforward ghost story to claymation splatter - comedy.

«What We Do in the Shadows» sounds like a bad comedy sketch — a «Real World» - esque reality show with vampires in place of horny millennials — but it's actually a really funny satire of the vampire subgenre that's done in the deadpan style of a Christopher Guest mockumentary.

Neighbors, a new comedy from the director of Forgetting Sarah Marshall, may be the first film of its subgenre to acknowledge how old the freaks of Freaks And Geeks have actually gotten, and to express nostalgia for the days when they could still believably play overgrown adolescents.

Though there's not shortage of vampire - related comedies, What We Do in the Shadows finds plenty of new and very funny wrinkles in the already «long in the tooth» subgenre that make it worthwhile.

It's incredible to think that in the short 10 years since the release of «Shaun of the Dead,» the zombie comedy has practically become its own subgenre, even spawning several «rom - zom - coms» (romantic zombie comedies, a term coined during the marketing for that film) in the process.

But the series spoofs almost every subgenre imaginable, from undercover journalists to corporate thrillers to cross-dressing comedies.

That's a lot of mileage from a few low - budget noirs and one comedy, so it's not surprising that this subgenre is beginning to show signs of exhaustion.

To those not interested in the greater ideas presented in the film, Barton Fink — despite its artsy and meaningful storytelling — should really appeal to anyone with a taste for black comedy (a subgenre the Coens rarely blunder.)

There are many different subgenres of the comedy genus, including screwball, black comedy, parody, anarchic comedy, and gross - out, a subgenre that has become increasingly popular with films like «There's Something About Mary» and «American Pie.»

For those who like the punishment subgenre and want something that falls much more in the realm of dark comedy, «Gravy» will be a hoot.

Better Watch Out Chris Peckover, USA / Australia, 2016, 89m Encompassing three great traditions of horror — the Christmas, home - invasion, and babysitting subgenres — Better Watch Out is a twisted and twisty mash - up of dark delights as filtered through the lens of an»80s teen comedy.

His»90s indie drama The Wackness received lots of praise, as did his cancer comedy 50/50, and he even managed to find new life in the paranormal romance subgenre this year with Warm Bodies.

Per the standards long established in the road trip buddy comedy (a subgenre also embodied by films like Midnight Run and Tommy Boy), the mismatched men of course endure high - spirited adventure and outrageous obstacles en route to their destination.

It's an entire subgenre unto itself: the indie comedy - drama about a guy in his 30s who goes back to his small town to deal with his wacky, dysfunctional family and learn some important life lessons.

The hapless - hero subgenre of comedy has been around for decades, serving as a springboard of funny situations for actors such as Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, W.C. Fields, Bob Hope and Danny Kaye.

In this one, Wright and Pegg take a mere half - hour to distill an entire subgenre of American child - man comedies... Wright is an even better director now, and the last half - hour of «The World's End» is one bravura set piece after another.

WHY: There's a reason why there aren't many comedy Westerns, and even fewer that are any good, and that's because the subgenre as a whole is very difficult to pull off.

WHY: «What We Do in the Shadows» sounds like a bad comedy sketch — a «Real World» - esque reality show with vampires in place of horny millennials — but it's actually a very funny satire of the vampire subgenre that's done in the deadpan style of a Christopher Guest mockumentary.

Obvious Child could be narrowly labeled an abortion themed romantic comedy, which is not a crowded subgenre.

Thankfully, writer and director Leslye Headland (Bachelorette) has delivered one of the treasured romantic comedies that treads familiar territory, but raises the bar with some of the most authentic and funny writing the subgenre has seen in a long time.

Rogen and director Nicholas Stoller («Get Him to the Greek,» «Five Year Engagement») are already intimately familiar with he «manchild» subgenre of comedy, having both milked the set - up of a man who refuses to grow up for pretty much all its worth.

subgenre of contemporary ensemble comedies based on a 2013 Wall Street Journal story.

The term «black humor» — also known as «dark humor» — was coined by surrealist André Breton in 1935 to designate a subgenre of comedy in which pleasure arises from topics generally considered taboo.