Sentences with phrase «comic actors»

It is with the comic actors» absurdist sense of repetition that abstraction reappears in unlikely places.

Comic actors Dave Franco (Neighbors, 21 Jump Street) and Abbi Jacobson (Broad City) take on their first dramatic roles in 6 Balloons.

Vulture's Bilge Ebiri has written a nice piece on the circumstances that have led to Sandra Bullock becoming the year's unlikeliest Oscar contender, citing Bullock's 2009 achievements as a «primer» for comic actors seeking serious Oscar consideration.

Wilson and Forte, two comic actors who often excel when letting themselves go over the top, deliver top - notch turns as the straight - men in their outrageous situations.

It's largely improvised by British comic actors Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon who are playing funny and probably more talkative versions of themselves.

At best here, they're white - bread comic actors; there's nothing that distinguishes them.

On the surface, The Campaign is a wacky, mass - market studio film starring two of America's most successful comic actors.

In Bateman, Sudekis, and Day, however, the film has three hugely talented comic actors, who are able to produce laughs from the sparse material they have been given.

Tribeca always has a fair number of comedies and movies starring comic actors, and this year that extended to a lot of movies by and about comedians — three, assuming I caught them all.

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The sisters are some of the best female comic actors — Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel, Emily Mortimer (who also appeared in Match Point), with Paul Rudd as that idiot brother.

Most comic actors seem desperate to be loved; Reynolds looked as if he couldn't care less.

Vacation, the fourth sequel to and a semi-remake of the 1983 comedy with the National Lampoon brand attached to the title, offers a deep bench of comic actors in bit and cameo roles, as is the tradition with the series.

, the fourth sequel to and a semi-remake of the 1983 comedy with the National Lampoon brand attached to the title, offers a deep bench of comic actors in bit and cameo roles, as is the tradition with the series.

But they know, as great comic actors like Cary Grant and Jack Lemmon knew, that their job in a comedy is to behave with as much realism as possible and let the impossibilities whirl around them.

It's been said often, but it is worth saying again: comic actors never seem to get awards or even nominations for the work that they do, but it seems clear to me that O'Hara, Lynch and Poehler are all working at as high a level of technique and creativity as, say, Cate Blanchett or Kate Winslet without signaling that they are Acting.

It's a marvelous crew of comic actors.

«Stalin» stars a marvelous crew of comic actors, including Rupert Friend, Steve Buscemi, and Michael Palin.

It also showcases a star turn by Rowan Atkinson that other would - be comic actors should study in detail until they understand why the British actor's Johnny English is one of the best comic creations to come along in years.

Netflix is continuing to cast the comic actors of today to play the comic legends of yesteryear, adding a Harold Ramis and a Bill Murray to its upcoming National Lampoon biopic, A Futile And Stupid Gesture.

The comic actors doing voice work, who also include Luke Wilson, Lewis Black, Matt Dillon, J.K. Simmons, Kenan Thompson, and Eddie Izzard, all do their jobs with relish and dispatch, but there's nothing clever - clever about it.

Monkeybone benefits from likeable comic actors like Fraser, who definitely is game for just about anything.

Few modern comic actors have done more for the 4/20 cause than Seth Rogen, and this festive farce may well be his most drug - addled to date.

Peña is just an absolute hoot, still one of the most enjoyable comic actors around.

The guy still hasn't caught a break as a leading man, and though he'll always find work alongside the likes of Will Ferrell and Judd Apatow, it's a major disservice to one of the more overlooked comic actors of his generation.

The former is particularly memorable for featuring comic actors Leslie Nielsen and Ted Danson in dramatic roles played dead straight.

The two stars are not only some of Hollywood's most likeable comic actors, but they tend to make everything they're in more enjoyable.

But, little did home audiences know that in Episode # 15 (airing December 29), they'd be introduced to one of the generation's greatest and most original comic actors: Lily Tomlin.

Having so many talented comic actors vying for screen time stokes a «highly creative, competitive atmosphere,» Higgins said.

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We discuss their long partnership, working with comic actors and what the title really means.

The idea of using strong comic actors was a brilliant casting choice.

But at least this one has the courtesy to offer up a number of gifted comic actors with Black, Jenny Slate, Jason Schwartzman, and Vanessa Bayer on hand to dance through the only - in - America wreckage.

After all, it has a great ensemble of comic actors and a tried and true formula of the debaucherous night out.

Seeing great comic actors like Steve Buscemi, Jeffrey Tambor and Michael Palin all together is a treat, like a comic supergroup.

Whitehouse and Freeman may have cut their teeth and first come to prominence as comic actors, but both possess impressive dramatic chops, the colder elements of their characters delivering jolts when prefaced by the lightest sprinklings of humour.

Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie Rated R for strong crude and sexual content throughout, brief graphic nudity, pervasive language, comic violence and drug use Available on DVD and Blu - ray With the help of Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis, John C. Reilly, Will Forte and many others, comic actors Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim star in this sketch comedy - like movie about two idiot filmmakers that lose everything and are forced to run a mall that has been rundown.

As funny as Nielsen can be, like all comic actors he still needs the quick - thinking jokes and zingy one - liners to be genuinely funny.

Despite the addition of other talented comic actors (Randy Quaid, Michael McKean, and Janeane Garofalo), it was a dismal season, and Elliott was put off by the lack of collaborative spirit among some of the long - term cast members.

Gary Cole, one of the most underrated comic actors working today, has almost nothing to do as the ruthless drug lord, and Rosie Perez is all sass and no substance.

Aubrey Plaza heads up a cast of skilled comic actors in a sex farce that has amusing moments scattered throughout but risks feeling like an extended SNL skit

And Fiennes again proves that, his other talents notwithstanding, he's one of the most gifted comic actors alive.

Among the human players, Cusack alone demonstrates the right energy, proving again that she's one of our brightest comic actors.

They like rewarding predominantly comic actors for taking a darker dramatic turn, even if the degree of difficulty isn't notably higher than in their comedy work.

Efron, who is growing into one of our most charming and reliable comic actors, preys on the same underlying sensitivity that made both of the «Neighbors» films so winsome.

All the characters are fantastic comic actors, too.

But he's an inherently generous performer, which is rare for big comic actors — they need the spotlight like fish need water, and they usually just drink it all.

Pairing the young star with two comic actors 10 years his senior (Jack Black and Steve Zahn), Saving Silverman followed in early 2001; with it, Biggs completed a triumverate of critical and commercial failures.Finding himself in need of a comeback at the ripe old age of 23, Biggs seemed poised to do just that later in the year, beginning with his reprisal of the bumbling post-adolescent Jim in American Pie 2.

But Carrey, like so many comic actors, is still a comedian first, and one with an unquenchable thirst for attention.

And where Hanks is one of the more talented comic actors around, Waring seems to be no more than one more journeyman performer... Macy is a capable comedian, but only Jackie Gleason is Jackie Gleason.