Sentences with phrase «early film comedy»

For fans of early film comedy, this discovery is roughly the equivalent of Moby Dick swimming ashore carrying the Holy Grail.»

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The dark comedy Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri won big at the Golden Globes earlier this year, but the film has also seen a sustained backlash from critics over its questionable ending and a perceived failure in fleshing out the movie's non-white characters.

«It was actually back in our early original content days and the red envelope entertainment, it's all we did was produce original stand - up comedy and acquired documentaries and foreign language films.

After his action - comedy vehicle Double Take was a January 2001 washout, Jones was poised to team with Ivan Reitman for the latter's summer 2001 sci - fi comedy Evolution.Still, Jones retired as 7 - Up's pitch man in early 2002, and would spend the 2000's nurturing his film and TV career, appearing in Runaway Jury and Drumline, as well as TV shows, like The Adventures of Chico and Guapo and Rules of Engagement.

We're beyond the era of Airplane and The Naked Gun, but even some of the early Scary Movie films had some merit, and then Walk Hard, Black Dynamite, and Wet Hot American Summer are shining examples of the best the comedy subgenre has to offer.

If Pedro Almodóvar, especially in his early days, had directed this film, he might have brought out the black comedy inherent in the piece, which would have made both the blackness and the comedy more fully resonate.

It can be overindulgent at times and Myers» over-the-top lens through which he projected his early comedy films can seep into the narrative and produce some overbearing results at times, though «Supermensch» feels like a work of minimalist restraint compared to films like «Wayne's World» and «Austin Powers».

After a three - year hiatus from acting, Robbins returned to the screen in 1997 with the comedy Nothing to Lose; he soon announced plans to mount a film adaptation of Cradle Will Rock, the Marc Blitzstein play first staged by Orson Welles six decades earlier.

Then there's the host of familiar comedy faces peppered throughout the film, including Alison Brie, Megan Mullally, Hannibal Buress, Nathan Fielder, Seth Rogan, Joe Mande, Casey Wilson, Lauren Ash, Brian Huskey, and John Early, who lend a good deal of goodwill to the proceedings, not to mention the slew of big names — including Kristen Bell, J.J. Abrams, Adam Scott, Keegan - Michael Key and Kevin Smith — the film uses in a prologue to explain the appeal of The Room to newcomers.

Tandy Cronyn's earliest film appearance was in the obscure agit - prop comedy Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition (1970); she has since been seen in such productions as All Night Long (1981), Once Upon a Time in America (1984), and the made - for - TV The Story Lady (1991), in which she co-starred with her mother, Jessica Tandy.

The documentary is accompanied by a number of interesting films: three shorts made at the Champion studio from 1910 to 1913, an early documentary short about Fort Lee by Theodore Huff and Mark A. Borgotta, a feature called The Danger Game starring Madge Kennedy, an early Mack Sennett comedy short, and a 31 - minute version of Robin Hood released by Éclair America in 1912.

This hilarious film is part history lesson, part succession drama, and part comedy of errors set in the upper echelons of the Soviet Communist hierarchy in the tumultuous early 1950s.

«To Rome With Love «is Woody Allen's most comical farce — his most straight ahead surreal comedy since his early 70s films.

He dropped out of film school in the early»90s to make a documentary about the notorious punk rocker GG Allin, and by the end of the decade he was making his first mainstream comedy, the American Pie - lite college romp, Road Trip.

The comedy is broad, and this is certainly more multiplex - friendly than Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, however, so those who hold that earlier Black film in high regard might be left feeling a bit unfulfilled.

Sure, nostalgia must help, but the 1980s strike me as the apex of comedy films, with their many entertaining works often populated by early «Saturday Night Live» cast members.

It's more like a late -»80s / early -»90s Woody Allen film, after Allen stopped separating his comedy and drama.

It's a routine comedy of secrets and deception that only offers an intuitive and inspiring ending the earlier part of the film doesn't deserve.

Although it'll technically be the only film opening on that day, Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained and the Seth Rogen / Barbra Streisand comedy The Guilt Trip are due out earlier that same week on the 25th.

Aardman Animation's stop - motion adventure - comedy film Early Man (Lionsgate) debuted in seventh place with a meagre $ 3.1 million over three - days.

Murphy had scored a big hit just a few months earlier in his film debut, the buddy cop action / comedy 48 Hrs.

The new film has been described as a screwball comedy, but the Brothers» earlier Raising Arizona, despite its contemporary setting, had a better claim to that description.

Leonard's early films were comedies, often starring Leonard himself as a «boob» or an ethnic Swedish caricature.

Early in the film, we are taken through every crevice of the gay comedy genre clichés, the Ethel Merman remarks, the exercise regimes, the Judy Garland show tunes.

Cox's style is a step beyond camp into a comedy of pure disgust; much of the film is churlishly unpleasant, but there's a core of genuine anger that gives the project an emotional validation lacking in the flabby American comedies of the early 80s.

The first film to accomplish the very rare feat of sweeping all five major Oscar categories (best picture, best actor, best actress, best director, and best screenplay), It Happened One Night is among the most gracefully constructed and edited films of the early sound era, packed with clever situations and gags that have entered the Hollywood comedy pantheon and featuring two actors at the top of their game, sparking with a chemistry that has never been bettered.

This weekend, Mike Leigh's 1990 comedy Life Is Sweet will screen at the Trylon microcinema in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as part of a monthlong retrospective of the director's early films.

Mike Leigh's 1990 comedy Life Is Sweet, showing at the Trylon microcinema as part of a monthlong retrospective of the director's early films, presents an intimate portrait of working - class life in Thatcher - era north London.

Battle: Los Angeles» early 2011 release date positions it before competing alien invasion films such as the comedy Paul (if that even counts), Jon Favreau's Cowboys & Aliens, Michael Bay's Transformers 3 and the August release of The Darkest Hour.

But it's still a cut above the majority of family entertainment, and director Paul King, who got his start helming the surreal cult comedy series The Mighty Boosh, continues to prove himself a confident and comparatively sophisticated stylist, employing cutaway sets, Rube Goldberg slapstick, animated sequences in different styles, and loads of visual gags to create the film's dollhouse - storybook world; the aesthetic influence of Wes Anderson is especially pronounced in the scenes set at the prison, where an early mishap involving a red sock and the prison laundry dyes the convicts» uniforms a Grand Budapest Hotel shade of lavender pink.

The early 1970s to the late 1980s was a unique moment in Australian cinema history; a time when censorship was reigned in and home - grown production flourished, resulting in a flurry of exploitation films — sex comedies, horror movies and action thrillers — that pushed buttons and boundaries, trampled over taste and decency, but also offered artistry within their escapism, giving audiences sights and sounds unlike anything they had seen in Australia before.

Other films playing are It Follows, which caused a stir earlier this year at Cannes; Jermaine Clement & Taika Waititi's vampire comedy What We Do in the Shadows; Kevin Smith's Tusk; [REC]: Apocalypse, the fourth entry in the hit Spanish franchise, and Big Game, the new film from the director of past TIFF film Rare Exports starring Samuel L. Jackson as the president.

«Liberal Arts» is a light and lively comedy of manners about college, literature and a midlife crisis that hits earlier than expected.The bookish group at the heart of this talky film — Josh Radnor, Elizabeth Olsen, Richard Jenkins, Zac Efron and...

Although there are moments of extremely dark comedy early on, after a certain point, the humor stops and with it any form of release from the almost unbearable tension of the film's third act.

Overrated Damsels In Distress Not nearly as clever as the film, or its adherents, seem to think, Whit Stillman's Damsels In Distress is a tone - deaf attempt to change gears from the observational comedy of his early films to a more stylized, absurdist mode.

They aren't all masterpieces, of course, but they do offer a history of the evolution of film comedy through the silent era to early sound films.

Payne's new sci - fi comedy - drama Downsizing, about a man who decides to shrink himself, was announced as the festival's opening film earlier this month.

He was seen on screen earlier this year in the Steve Carell comedy «The Incredible Burt Wonderstone» and, according to the Internet Movie Data Base, has two more film projects being released posthumously.

We already had early signs that the Golden Globe nominations would be... shall we say, interesting, when Get Out, Jordan Peele's tremendous horror film about being a black man in America, was inexplicably classified in the Comedy category.

Managing expectations also proved fruitful for Kay Cannon's hard - R teen sex comedy Blockers; the film's $ 21 million, third - place opening was $ 4 million above that of Game Night, which similarly debuted to positive murmurings from surprised critics earlier this year.

When: March 16th Why: The movie is a Holy Trinity of things that I hate — TV - to - film adaptations, Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum — and yet early buzz for the action comedy has it tipped to be the first breakout hit of the year.

This criminally underrated comedy from the early 1990s is also one of the funniest heist films of all time.

He was most memorably charming back in his «Cheers» days, but he clearly made an impression early on; Harrelson had his feature debut in the 1986 sports comedy film «Wildcats» starring Goldie Hawn, which also happened to be Wesley Snipes» first film too.

Tsui sets his avoidance dances in confined spaces (tiny apartments, backstage dressing rooms), but To's are set out in the open: a fountain in a public park, a street corner, a sidewalk (a similarly choreographed scene plays out as well early in Romancing in Thin Air, itself a kind of compendium of all of To's romantic comedies, where Sammi Cheng and Louis Koo wander outside the grounds of the hotel, oblivious to each others» presence despite occupying the same film frame).

While he too has had success in dramatic films like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, his recent batch of comedies hasn't struck gold as they did in the»90s and early 2000s.

If vaudeville was a ripe feeding ground for comedy teams in the early sound days, the silent film comedians also spawned generations of teams that were not reliant on dialogue.

The movie is set to be directed by Todd Phillips (The Hangover), with Martin Scorsese producing, and is said to be «a gritty and grounded hard - boiled crime film set in early -»80s Gotham City that isn't meant to feel like a DC movie as much as one of Scorsese's films from that era, like Taxi Driver, Raging Bull or The King Of Comedy.»

In his early work Wyler already showed a tendency to hop from genre to genre, presiding over John Barrymore's most controlled film performance, in the taut legal drama Counsellor at Law (1933), and an early comedy script from Preston Sturges, The Good Fairy (1935).

«I wouldn't actually call it a «musical comedy» — there are movies within the movie, and those movies might have comedic music, but the movie we're making is actually not comical,» composer Carter Burwell said earlier this year about the film.

The film's tone swings wildly between brutal, dark action and whimsical comedy throughout, which is apparently partly thanks to an early, comedy - heavy trailer.