Sentences with phrase «crackerjack comedy»

Of course, it helps that the crackerjack comedy team (one of whom is an avowed Criterion fanatic) launched the anthology series, which features a different documentary spoof each week, with Sandy Passage, a film that looks suspiciously like a certain cinema verité classic in the Criterion Collection.

Of course, it helps that the crackerjack comedy team (one of whom is an avowed Criterion fanatic) launched the antho...

Over on the Criterion Channel, for Super Bowl weekend, we're showing the first football movie ever made, Harold Lloyd's crackerjack comedy The Freshman (1925), and the first rugby - football movie ever made, Lindsay Anderson's heart - pounding dram...

Not exact matches

Hemsworth has a knack for physical comedy, but Waititi seems to be the first Marvel director to really optimize it, sharpening some terrific gags with crackerjack editing.

The actress» debut as a writer - director, «In A World...,» was a movie about Hollywood voiceover artists that was both a crackerjack romantic comedy and a subtle critique of how women are treated in the workplace.

But «The Big Stick» is not one of those semi-awful, schematically spelled out conflicts such as the unfunny «My Big Fat Greek Wedding», but rather features a crackerjack script graced with a marvelous ensemble that mixes melodrama and broad comedy, and comes across like a hilarious memoir based on Kumail's actual marriage to Emily in one of the most beautiful stories of love and its conflicts you may run across in the theaters this year.

THE BLUES BROTHERS Not so much a comedy skit, just two very funny guys (John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd) with a crackerjack backup band paying homage to some classic tunes.