Sentences with phrase «different kind of comedy»

That the Farrelly brothers are intent on making a different kind of comedy in «Hall Pass» - a departure from the gross - out farces that they're known for («There's Something About Mary,» «The Heartbreak Kid»)- is apparent from the second laugh line.

This is a different kind of comedy than we're used to seeing these two produce.

Not exact matches

First time director Jeff Baena tackles the zombie movie with a different kind of twist in Life After Beth, and the result is a comedy that mixes in dramatic elements alongside the impending zombie apocalypse.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

It's the kind of lesser known film you might find through the film festival circuit (had it's premiere at Sundance Film Festival) that's made up of a different brand of comedy or drama than your used to from a typical blockbuster, strong performances from B or C - list actors, and overall much to offer.

The Lincoln Lawyer represents a slightly different, incongruously clothed vehicle for McConaughey, but like so many of his recent romantic comedies, it's agreeably mediocre, a cinematic paperback novel transformed into the kind of fare folks mindlessly consume on planes and forget about before touching down.

What you get with this film is a very different kind of horror comedy.

And Linklater has actually tried many different kinds of movies, including the wicked black comedy «Bernie,» the musical romp «School of Rock,» the nostalgic period piece «Me and Orson Welles» and even a couple of animated films.

This is entirely different from the phenomenon of the romantic comedy with fake charm, the kind that's convinced, against all evidence, that it has chemistry and amusing banter and meet - cute likeability by the bushel.

The network has unleashed trailers for a slew of new shows they're hoping will catch your eye, including a different kind of superhero show (MacGyver), another film - to - TV remake (Training Day), a new Jason Katims drama (Pure Genius), a new Joel McHale comedy (The Great Indoors), and two separate, unrelated comedies about working - class men forced to spend time at home (Kevin James «Kevin Can Wait and Matt LeBlanc «s Man With a Plan).

* Asked how he feels about going from very small indie films to a massive, effects - driven fantasy / comedy, Green said: «Well, just like probably all of you guys like to see different kinds of movies every week — a little of this, a little of that — it's fun professionally to, like, get in the ring and design creatures and have guys in suits and puppets and just, y ’ know, bring in all this stuff... I remember when I was a kid, and if something like «Behind The Scenes of Return of The Jedi» would come on, I'd just be glued to the screen, wishing that one day I'd be able to get my hands dirty doing something like that.

**** Zachary F November 29, 2012 this movie is sooo funny Jon C November 29, 2012 a fun, crude, and hilarious comedy two girl roomates formulate a plan to make their own sex hotline in order to make ends meet hijinks and raw laughs ensue between two very different people who embrace their sexuality via telephone the performances from both Graynor and Miller are pretty damn fun to watch the dialogue is insanely funny and gratuitous there's a very strange cameo in here too by Nia Vardalos Justin Long adds a nice touch being the supporting gay best friend mentoring these two girls it's just very awkwardly humorous listening to these people talk in this kind of film, there's interestingly no actual sex happening on screen, no boobs, no ass, no exposed body parts the plot mainly focuses on the bonding relationship bewteen the two leads which is a good break from the usual norm we're used to I can't help but feel though that the filmmakers didn't have anything left at the end, some of it felt unfinished and unresolved for all those problems, «For A Good Time, Call..»

A wonderfuly dark and ridiculous comedy that gives us a slightly different kind of thriller.

A different kind of stretch comes from Wes Craven, who awkwardly marries a thuddingly ineffective ghost story (apologies owed to Oscar Wilde) to an otherwise frisky romantic comedy between Rufus Sewell and Emily Mortimer.

Drama, you have comedy, you have sexuality, you have relationships, you have all kinds of different detailed stuff.

Kinnear effortlessly generates his usual sympathy, even if his uncharacteristic trysts seem borrowed from a different comedy, the kind where a montage of trying on different outfits to wear for an online dating profile photo isn't quite as random and dumb.

The flick works best is when it is putting a twist on the drug - fueled comedy with the holiday spirit, most notably with Michael Shannon portraying a drug dealer selling three different kinds of weed for the occasion, built around the concept of past, present, and future, effectively making him out to be a fun take on the ghosts we are familiar with.

Beginning almost literally with an Easter egg shout - out only hardcore comic book fans will get at the start of a winning «I wish I'd thought of that» opening credit sequence that will be the envy of Hollywood comedy writers and producers, 20th Century Fox's Deadpool makes quick work of announcing it's a different kind of superhero movie... in a good way.

It's the kind of romantic comedy that could easily be remade today if you could invent a reason for having the couple take different forms of transportation to go from New York to Florida.

It sometimes feels that the British film industry only makes about three or four different kinds of movies: dreadful gangster films that rarely get a release abroad, gritty social realism pictures, period costume dramas, and semi-quirky comedies with a tearjerking side, exemplified by something like «Billy Elliot» or «The Full Monty,» but more often turning out like «Calendar Girls» or «Song For Marion.»

A different kind of invention was at work in the Finnish black comedy Iron Sky in which a colony of surviving Nazis prospecting gas on the dark side of the moon decides to return to earth to «cleanse» it.

«In a lot of different entertainment industries now, sole ownership is kind of becoming the new standard,» Howey says, citing Louis C.K., who self - produced his latest comedy special.

The film has been generating substantial buzz as a completely different kind of movie — a funny, edgy, hip romantic comedy... about abortion.