Sentences with phrase «cult comedies like»
Starting out in cult comedies like Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore before finding giant mainstream success with The Wedding Singer and The Waterboy.
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Today, he's a cult hero, appearing in mainstream comedy films like The Hangover.
As a kid of the 80's I personally liked the cult hit as it was a throwback to all the cheesy 80's comedies filled with drinking, bullies, and naked chicks.
The comedy of manners and social mores that ensues has Hollywood insiders predicting a perfectly pitched hit with SJP's cult - like following and an exciting new chapter Stateside for Horgan.
The movie has even drawn some comparisons to «Trainspotting,» even if the pitch - black comedy feels more like another book - to - film cult classic, «Fight Club.»
«Woman moves to New York after being freed from underground cult» sounds like the concept for a gritty documentary, not a sunny comedy series.
I'd also recommend this, but with some reservation, to those who enjoy quirky romantic comedies, off - beat cult films, and those who like foreign, particularly French cinema, with multi-textured storylines whose meanings aren't always evident.
It looks like The Greatest American Hero is heading back to TV screens, with Deadline revealing that The LEGO Movie directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller are teaming with Dope helmer Rick Famuyiwa for a single - camera comedy remake of the cult 1980s TV series for 20th Century Fox TV.
Written by Jon Ronson (The Men Who Stare At Goats) and Peter Straughan (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Men Who Stare At Goats), Frank is a fictional story based on the memoir by Jon Ronson and loosely inspired by Frank Sidebottom (the persona of cult musician and comedy legend Chris Sievey), as well as outsider musicians like Daniel Johnston, Captain Beefheart and Harry Partch.
The hilarious 2003 cult comedy BAD SANTA saw Billy Bob Thornton as a Grinch - like department store Santa Claus, who alongside his dwarf sidekick (Tony Cox), used their position to rob the store of its expensive contents and annual takings.
Before hitting it big with his smash hit Three Kings, writer - director David O. Russell made his mark with small indie comedies like Spanking the Monkey and this cult gem, Flirting with Disaster.
Waititi, 42, is a veteran of the cult comedy series «Flight of the Concords» and has previously directed largely offbeat irreverent indies like the deadpan vampire tale «What We Do in the Shadows» and the oddball outlaw comedy «Hunt for the Wilderpeople.»
The endurance of each moderately overshadowed the freshmen, like Amy Schumer's «I Feel Pretty» and the sequel to the 2001 cult comedy «Super Troopers,» either one of which nonetheless controlled to search out their very own area of interest audiences regardless of in large part destructive evaluations.
Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Latest Mike Judge Comedy Misses the Mark While Mike Judge may be best known as the creator of the MTV animated series Beavis and Butthead, he also has a cult following of devoted movie fans who love his live - action masterpieces like Office Space and Idiocracy.
A cult favorite for many, Swingers is an amiable and fun comedy that entertains immensely, even if it seems like it isn't going anywhere in particular for the duration.
From his start at Disney, to his background in baseball, his wacky comedies, insane list of cult classics, and current resurgence, it feels like there's nothing he can't do.
The hilarious 2003 cult comedy BAD SANTA saw Billy Bob Thornton as a Grinch - like department store Santa Claus, who alongside his dwarf sidekick (Tony...
It is a fictional story loosely inspired by Frank Sidebottom, the persona of cult musician and comedy legend Chris Sievey, as well as other outsider musicians like Daniel Johnston and Captain Beefheart.
WHY: Christopher Landon's «Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse» desperately wants to be the next great horror / comedy, but while it boasts some great gore effects and inventive kills, the film is disappointingly short on laughs, despite being clearly influenced by cult classics like «Shaun of the Dead» and «Zombieland.»
Rian Johnson's back - catalog hardly reads like a collection of tongue - in - cheek buddy movies or intergalactic comedies; his cult breakout Brick was a film about heroin abuse.
But, like a secret handshake among comedy connoisseurs, it's long since become a quotable cult hit.
• Tony Smith (1912 — 1980), sculptor who bridged AbEx and minimalism (dad of Kiki) Mel Kendrick (b. 1949), formalist process - based sculptor Chris Wilmarth (1943 — 1987), sculptor of steel, bronze, and etched glass Joel Shapiro (b. 1941), minimalist sculptor who flirts with figuration Christopher Wool (b. 1955), Neo-AbExer with a taste for graffiti and repetition Alex Hubbard (b. 1975), rising master of painterly materials and abstract coloration Josh Smith (b. 1976), Factory - like painter of great expressive volume Jacob Kassay (b. 1984), mirrored - painting - wunderkind - turned - sackcloth artist • Andy Warhol (1928 — 1987), Pop maestro and appropriationist world - changer David Robbins (b. 1957), artist and «Concrete Comedy» theorist David LaChapelle (b. 1963), lush photographer of celebrity decadence Ronnie Cutrone (1948 — 2013), Factory personality and East Village cult figure George Condo (b. 1957), Neo-Picassian painter of the grotesque Mark Dagley (b. 1957), Op abstractionist • Richard Serra (b. 1939), grand master of process art and the post-industrial sublime Grégoire Müller (b. 1947), painter of current - event appropriations Philip Glass (b. 1937), «Einstein on the Beach» composer Lawrence Chandler (b. 1951), composer, musician, and sound artist • Sol LeWitt (1928 — 2007), father of conceptual art, multitasking artistic outsourcer Adrian Piper (b. 1948), performance art innovator Mark Williams (b. 1950), monochromatic minimalist painter