Sentences with phrase «craft film comedies»

Apatow seems to take undue heat for trying to craft film comedies that aspire to something (beyond being funny, which they reliably are).

Not exact matches

Tom and Huck is a failed attempt at crafting an effective family oriented comedy, and there's really nothing memorable about the film.

Mehta's confidently crafted film is more intelligent and serious than your standard romantic comedy.

While the two helped make the film independently, they tirelessly worked to make the comedy thrive on its action sequences, which were powerfully crafted in part by stunt coordinator Jeff Schwan.

Co-written by Pegg and Wright, the films» sharp and hyper - imaginative direction and well - crafted, sincere screenplays gave us all hope that the ancient art of dramatic comedy was undead, at least.

The 100 + episode craft - beer - and - movies podcast series features veteran film critic Cole Smithey and various guests from the entertainment, comedy, and craft beer worlds copiously consuming international politics and culture through the prism of a single film and a different craft beer each week.

As she has expanded her story into a feature - length film, Atsuko has crafted a road movie that manages to balance absurdist bursts of comedy with a probing, at times deeply sad, character study.

Belonging to the drama, comedy and adventure genre, the film opened to generally positive reviews with praises for its out of the box storyline which has been crafted straight from the animal's perspective and not on how we imagine them to be.

It comes off, however, like a half - baked comedy, a flatly crafted horror feature, and a dully - paced, sometimes amateurish film that never lives up to the high points of what the writer / director has given us in the past.

With multiple nominations in the craft categories the film easily topped the 2018 list, followed by Martin McDonagh's black comedy Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and the Gary Oldman - starring Churchill biopic Darkest Hour.

Rian Johnson, who received great critical acclaim for his modern film noir homage, Brick, crafts another genre homage to the old con capers with The Brothers Bloom, mixing the stories you'd find in such films as The Sting with the light comedy you'd occasionally find in a Marx Brothers comic adventure.

And while that film offered a well - crafted overview of the early days of National Lampoon, it didn't really let us get to know any of the madmen who brought this bizarre comedy magazine from the halls of Harvard to the world at large.

Kevin Smith has crafted what he calls a horror film, but what I found to be an engaging thriller with suspense, dark comedy, and quite possibly the best writing in the filmmaker's entire career.

It has an expertly crafted mix of self - reflection, endearing comedy and unsettling dark fantasy that feels reminiscent of films like Spirited Away.

NNancy Meyers (Something's Got ta Give, What Women Want), who excels at crafting just these sorts of romantic comedies for more mature female audiences, delivers perhaps her most original premise for a film.

, Anderson has crafted a delirious, lush, hypnotic, pitch - black comedy; a film that serves as a rebuttal for the prototypical «miserable artist who gets away with treating others like crap because he's so talented» trope.

The lovingly crafted romantic comedy and zombie horror film — a «rom - zom - com,» as marketing called it — remains, perhaps, the most satisfying of any of them.

The film would benefit from a pedal - to - the - metal approach to comedy as well as more careful approaches to crafting a good joke.

Nancy Meyers (Something's Got ta Give, What Women Want), who excels at crafting just these sorts of romantic comedies for more mature female audiences, delivers perhaps her most original premise for a film.