Sentences with phrase «comic films»

Ahead of the gala tonight, McDonagh told me how pleased he was that the darkly comic film seemed to be striking a chord.

Anyone who has sat tearfully and joyfully through Charlie Chaplin's comic film masterpiece, City Lights, will immediately sense the profound relationship between these biblical themes and those of the tradition of comedy and clowning.

Matthew Vaughn's new film Kick - Ass (of which Empire has seen quite a bit; and it more than lives up to the title, by the way) may not be out for a while, but clearly he enjoyed the experience of working with Mark Millar, on whose comic the film is based - because he's about to do it again.

Even Stan Lee, whose brief cameos are almost the one constant of all modern Marvel comic films, doesn't appear until the second half of the season.

The supposedly comic film, Evil Woman, centres on a trio of losers who have been friends since school days, have dead - end jobs and do open - air gigs in car - parks for small change as Diamonds in the Rough, a cover band for their hero, Neil Diamond.

He wrote an appreciation of Allen Baron's film Blast of Silence in Sean Phillips's comic book Criminal (Phillips did the a

In August, Marvel released a short comic film directed by Waititi, which explained what the character was doing during the events of Captain America: Civil War, from which he was absent.

However, if you like any of the actors, or just enjoy serio - comic films about relationships, Lovelife has more ups than downs.

Nanjiani portrays himself in the gently comic film, with Zoe Kazan stepping in to take Gordon's role and her parents getting nuanced portrayals from Holly Hunter and Ray Romano.

Following their sublime «Shaun of the Dead» and the wacky «Hot Fuzz,» comes ther third comic film rendering, «The World's End.»

Patty Jenkins» Wonder Woman earned over $ 800 million at the worldwide box office, far surpassing the recent wave of DC Comic films.

Happily, thanks to the lightly comic film adaptation of Basu's book — penned by Lee Hall, directed by Stephen Frears and starring the indefatigable Judi Dench as the monarch... Read

Swinton's casting as The Ancient One in the Marvel film sparked controversy because the character is an Asian man in the comics

My Cousin Vinny isn't just a great comic film.

The darkly comic film I, Tonya will provide some backstory to the Olympian accused of organizing a violent attack on Nancy Kerrigan, her rival.

So in Québec you have comic films like La Florida [George Mihalka, 1993] or Les Boys [Louis Saïa, 1997], a film about an amateur hockey team.

A comic film noir sketch sending up greeting card poetry that never adds up to more than a sideways Oedenkirk smirk.

Of the crucial ingredients for any comic film, the most important must be humour.

Mena Suvari plays a virgin who agrees to allow herself to be deflowered on pay - per - view television in this nasty and comic film that's an indictment of our prurient and hedonistic popular culture.

But what about the other production companies that can't spare that much cash on a comic film?

While The Big Lebowski is probably the most well - known and perhaps best - loved Coen's comedy, Raising Arizona was their first out - and - out comic film, establishing both the wacky characters and outrageous situations that typify their overtly funny films.

Both the darkly comic film and the HBO limited series ended the night with four wins a piece in their respective motion picture and television categories.