Sentences with phrase «death for a comedy»

While this would be well and good in a straight drama, it's the kiss of death for a comedy — if indeed, this is a comedy.

Not exact matches

Chris McGrath, the GOP candidate for the Republican ex-Majority Leader Dean Skelos» Long Island seat, is drawing heat from women's rights groups and others for bankrolling two R - rated sex comedies that include gratuitous nude scenes — «Surf School» and «Death to the Supermodel.»

Chris McGrath, the GOP candidate for the Republican ex-Majority Leader's Long Island seat, is drawing heat from women's rights groups and others for bankrolling two R - rated sex comedies that include gratuitous nude scenes — «Surf School» and «Death to the Supermodels.»

8 Simple Rules (originally 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter for the first season) is an American sitcom comedy television show, originally The Hennessy clan — mother Cate, daughters Bridget and Kerry, and son Rory — look to one another for guidance and support after the death of Paul, the

Some employees of an international arms dealer go out into the Hungarian wildeness for a weekend company retreat, only to find themselves menaced by a group of militants who don't like having them around their territory in this modestly budgeted dark comedy / horror film from Christopher Smith, who also directed Black Death (with Sean Bean).

He tackled two of his last assignments in the 2006 omnibus picture Paris, je t «aime and the 2008 comedy - drama Looking for Palladin, prior to his death at age 86 in early February 2012.

In 1968, he began adapting the British comedy series Till Death Do Us Part for American consumption; the result, which premiered in 1971, was All in the Family, which, in addition to winning a warehouse full of Emmies, literally changed the face of TV comedy.

That moment, and so many others that deal with death in a lighthearted way, dabble in dark comedy in ways that feel fresh for Pixar.

The following year she had some success for her supporting role in Neil LaBute's remake of Frank Oz's black comedy Death at a Funeral, in which she co-starred with Danny Glover, Peter Dinklage, and Martin Lawrence, among others.

Check out the latest movie stills from the comedy «The Hangover Part II» by director Todd Phillips (Due Date, The Hangover, School for Scoundrels) and starring Zach Galifianakis (Bored to Death, Dinner for Schmucks, American Dad!)

(In Portuguese with subtitles) Death at a Funeral (R for profanity and drug use) Offbeat British comedy about the relatives of a recently - deceased family patriarch who hope not only to bury the body but also a dark secret about the dysfunctional dearly departed.

eOne and Armando Iannucci (In The Loop) have delivered the very first trailer for the upcoming feature comedy The Death Of Stalin, which is set to arrive in UK cinemas from October 20th.

Friended to Death (R for profanity and crude sexual references) Dark comedy revolving around a social media junkie (Ryan Hansen) who fakes his own death online just to see whether any of his supposed friends come to the funDeath (R for profanity and crude sexual references) Dark comedy revolving around a social media junkie (Ryan Hansen) who fakes his own death online just to see whether any of his supposed friends come to the fundeath online just to see whether any of his supposed friends come to the funeral.

Happily, Bruni Tedeschi never applies a heavy moralising touch to the proceedings, preferring to opt mainly for gentle, slightly dark comedy, even when death and mourning are involved.

Wingard and Barrett play that character's death for black comedy, but it's not a one - off experience.

Bored to Death: The Complete First Season Available on DVD and Blu - ray Jason Schwartzman, Zach Galifianakis, and Ted Danson star in this freshman HBO comedy about a mystery writer who is so bored that he posts an ad on the internet lending his services as a private detective in order to pass the time and maybe get a few ideas for his novel.

Those unaware of his death often listen to him raging against the machine of the George H.W. Bush years and the first Iraq war (or, on a lesser note, the soulless comedy of Jay Leno) and mistake it for a direct response to the ailments of more recent years.

That's The Death of Stalin for you, a slapstick tragedy — and for the funniest, fiercest comedy of the year so far — from the fertile mind of Armando Iannucci, the British political satirist behind the HBO's Veep and the sensational, Strangelovian In the Loop (2009).

The Death of Stalin By Lauren Kaminsky History becomes cathartic farce in Armando Iannucci's comedy - all - star retelling of the political backroom battle for succession in postwar USSR

For a movie that opens with a wife confessing her rape fantasy to her husband, there is no reason why the Australian sex comedy The Little Death should work as well as it does.

It is a commonly held standard that the death knell for comedy is trying to be funny.

9:35 am — Sundance — A Girl Cut in Two One of the last films from great French director Claude Chabrol before his death, with Ludivine Sagnier as an up - and - coming TV personality faced with choosing between two men — with Chabrol at the helm, you know there's more than that to it, and his touch for black comedy thrillers should make this one an enjoyable watch.

Previously on the small screen, he starred in the HBO comedy BORED TO DEATH with Jason Schwartzman and Ted Danson, which ran for three seasons.

I don't want to ignore the life - affirming pleasures of Greta Gerwig's teen comedy Lady Bird or the delicate, almost airy touch of Kamila Andini's death - themed The Seen and Unseen — two movies that, along with Zhao's and Grisebach's, contributed to an extraordinary showing for female directors this year.

Leaves of Grass (R for violence, drug use and pervasive profanity) Mob comedy about an Ivy League Classics professor (Ed Norton) who is lured home to Oklahoma by a false report of his pot - dealing, identical twin's death only to end - up embroiled in a cockamamie scheme to topple his rival drug kingpin (Richard Dreyfuss).

As the acclaimed The Death Of Stalin is released on DVD, director Armando Iannucci tells NME about how the reality of politics in 2018 is too «absurd» for him to turn into comedy for VEEP and The Thick Of It.

The various other genre awards are won by Christopher Willis his Russian - inspired music for the satirical comedy «The Death of Stalin»; and Theodore Shapiro for his anarchic but wonderfully sincere score for the animated super hero parody «Captain Underpants: The First Epic Adventure».

Pictures released this HD movie trailer for the upcoming comedy «The Hangover Part II» by director Todd Phillips (Due Date, The Hangover, School for Scoundrels) and starring Zach Galifianakis (Bored to Death, Dinner for Schmucks, American Dad!)

This may not be a death sentence for an Oscar nom, though, assuming ten nominees, Gone Girl would certainly get more love than a few of the nominations for Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy.

Hardly any of the new releases, which also included the thriller The Hurricane Heist (8th place, $ 3.2 million) and the dark action comedy Gringo, (11th place, $ 2.6 million) were well - reviewed going into the weekend, save for the limited release independents like Thoroughbreds, which made $ 1.2 million from 549 locations, and Armando Iannucci's The Death of Stalin, which opened in four theaters to $ 181,000.

Check out the latest international movie poster for the upcoming comedy «The Hangover Part II» by director Todd Phillips (Due Date, The Hangover, School for Scoundrels) and starring Zach Galifianakis (Bored to Death, Dinner for Schmucks, American Dad!)

Check out the Wolfpack TV spot for the upcoming comedy «The Hangover Part II» by director Todd Phillips (Due Date, The Hangover, School for Scoundrels) and starring Zach Galifianakis (Bored to Death, Dinner for Schmucks, American Dad!)

Verdict: There is «political farce» and then there is Armando Iannuci's The Death of Stalin, a comedy so black as to almost absorb one's capacity for laughter.

The movie features a bevy of hot young actresses, a streak of black comedy and more than a few grisly death scenes that almost make up for the fact that the film's very existence is completely unnecessary.

(Played for comedy, the priest «s death seems an ugly and unnecessary violation of the film «s compassionate perspective).

«The Little Death,» an Australian sex comedy that takes its title from the French idiom for orgasm, bops around between various couples exploring their fetishes and fantasies.

An appreciation for Robert Zemeckis» 1992 dark comedy «Death Becomes Her,» now available on Blu - ray from Shout!

The cast of Death at a Funeral should be commended for nearly pulling off a seemingly impossible task: They make a rehash of an only three - year - old comedy funny in its own ways.

2:00 am (10th)-- TCM — Kind Hearts and Coronets In one of the zaniest of the zany comedies that Alec Guinness was best known for in his early career, he plays eight, count»em, eight characters — all relatives in line to receive a duke's massive fortune upon his death.

«Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» (Nov. 10): Martin McDonough, who won an Oscar for his screenplay for «In Bruges,» returns with another dark comedy, this one starring the always terrific Frances McDormand as a woman so angered by the law's half - hearted investigation of her daughter's death that she paints exactly what it says in the title to take on the police chief, played by Woody Harrelson.

And both the romance and comedy are underplayed for most of the film, leaving us with a drama that never takes itself too seriously despite dealing with death and healing.

Russia's culture ministry has withdrawn permission for the release of Armando Iannucci's black comedy The Death of Stalin, after officials and top arts figures labelled the movie offensive and extremist.

It might be 14 years since the original romantic comedy, Love Actually, hit our screens but for some actors the death of one of the film's pivotal...

With its mix of comedy and horror, it's a work ripe for the big screen, and writer / director Burr Steers (Igby Goes Down,, The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud) take promises to be a rollicking adaptation.

But the fact that Happy Death Day addresses the groundhog in the room is part of its self - aware, played - for - comedy charm.

Watch three brand new TV spots for the upcoming comedy «The Hangover Part II» by director Todd Phillips (Due Date, The Hangover, School for Scoundrels) and starring Zach Galifianakis (Bored to Death, Dinner for Schmucks, American Dad!)

As he's proven time and time again from geek favorites like Firefly and Con Man, to films like Death At a Funeral (one of my favorite movies for absolutely no reason), not to mention his facility with rooster voices, Alan Tudyk is very much at home with nerdy comedy.

This time, my friend David Park — an actor, comedian and improv guru — joins me at the ArcLight Hollywood for a screening of «Happy Death Day,» a horror comedy in which a vapid college student (Jessica Rothe) keeps living the same day over and over again and keeps getting killed at the end.

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