Sentences with phrase «end on comedies»

Women don't only get the short end on comedies, of course.

Not exact matches

On camera, she played Jim Carrey's prisoner in this Farrelly brothers police comedy; off camera, she ended up dating her co-star for 18 months.

In the end, he had to put on the only completely crueltyfree film he could find, a comedy about the Jamaican Olympic bobsled team, but I still managed to cry when they crossed the finishing line and wondered whether this transformation into a pathetic weepy female was permanent.

It is hard to say just what Moby - Dick, Melville's greatest and most famous work, really is: a metaphysical Romantic tragedy about Captain Ahab's sexual obsession with an enormous white whale; an immense picaresque comedy about sailing; or a serio - comic grand opera that begins with the narrating Ishmael bored by the streaming crowds of New York and ends with him alone in the ocean, floating on the harpooner Queequeg's coffin.

Makes me think of the Rat Race movie where that guy is transporting a live human heart for a transplant and it accidentally gets tossed into some weeds and a dog finally ends up chewing on it... That has got to be the funniest comedy movie of all time!

If you're putting unrealistic mythical expectations on your relationship, it might end up more Greek tragedy than romantic comedy.

But at the end of the day when everyone is going home, I take some intentional steps to release the character from me,» she tells us over the phone while promoting her new YouTube Red comedy, Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television.

It was a comedy of errors — we went on the wrong train after many failed attempts to hail a cab, missed empty cabs on the other side of the street, and ended up walking back to the hotel an hour and a half later only to catch a cab a few blocks away.

The film, which hits theaters February 16, is a modern twist on a romantic comedy (boy and girl meet, fall in love, but then break up, and are suddenly reunited, ending up in that awkward stage where they have to debate whether to wave hello while taking out the trash), but it's also a particularly female spin on the coming of age story, the likes of which we're only beginning to see onscreen as more women carve out a place for themselves in writer's rooms and director's chairs.

The leading comedy club in Luton only rolls around on a monthly basis, with some special events as a bonus, but if you are looking for a funny date night where you laugh from beginning to end, this is likely to be the night out that is best for you and your date.

Watch Internet Dating 2008 Full Movie Free OnlineReleased: 30 December 2008 Genres: Comedy Director: Master P, D Kat Williams works at a subway end up falling in love with a worker but during his time he goes on a dating site to find a partner.

In the end, this is again a very good horror comedy which needs to focus less on the main characters (lets face it, they are cliches and the interest of this whole movie is to the idea behind it) and more on the variety of monsters that were created for this film.

For a student film (Parker worked on this during his time at the University of Colorado) it's really professionally cast, the effects aren't altogether sloppy, and the plot, though sporadic near the end, actually has a resounding action, and is historically accurate though stretched to involve dark comedy.

Beginning where most romantic comedies usually end, you can't fault «The Five - Year Engagement» for trying to deliver a fresh take on the genre, but although it boasts some really funny moments, like most Judd Apatow productions, the movie doesn't know when enough is enough.

A blue chip cast is wasted in the painfully unfunny ensemble comedy Niagara Motel, about a gaggle of self - absorbed nitwits struggling to make ends meet on the Canadian side of the tourist mecca.

A New York stand - up comedian (Pete Holmes) ends up couch surfing at other comedians apartments after discovering his wife cheating on him in this comedy from Holmes and Judd Apatow.

The film also includes outstanding additional cast including Corey Stoll (House of Cards, The Bourne Legacy), Bobby Cannavale (Danny Collins, Annie, HBO's The Long Play), Michael Peña (End of Watch, American Hustle), Abby Ryder Fortson (Togetherness), Judy Greer (13 Going on 30, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes), David Dastmalchian (The Dark Knight, Prisoners), Wood Harris (Remember the Titans, The Wire), John Slattery (Mad Men, Marvel's Iron Man 2) and Gregg Turkington (The Comedy, On Cinema) and multi-hyphenate T.I. (American Gangster, Takerson 30, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes), David Dastmalchian (The Dark Knight, Prisoners), Wood Harris (Remember the Titans, The Wire), John Slattery (Mad Men, Marvel's Iron Man 2) and Gregg Turkington (The Comedy, On Cinema) and multi-hyphenate T.I. (American Gangster, TakersOn Cinema) and multi-hyphenate T.I. (American Gangster, Takers).

Unless you're one of those people that is taken completely by surprise when you see a flock of birds in a film and they end up pooping on someone, usually as the punctuation to a scene to embarrass or get revenge, this is scraping mighty low in the gag department to turn this into a comedy.

John Dies at the End, a horror comedy from writer / director Don Coscarelli (The Beastmaster, Phantasm, Bubba Ho - Tep), follows John (Rob Mayes) and David (Chase Williamson), college drop - outs who can barely hold out jobs, but who soon find themselves on a journey to save humanity from an otherworldly invasion.

Not that his comedy stuff isnt great, i love This Is The End and him in it, but Moneyball then this... goood on ya Jonah

Except for The Martian anyway, which was on the receiving end of many jokes, including a look of confusion from director Ridley Scott while accepting the film's Best Comedy award.

With echoes of Don McKellar's Last Night (a brilliant little film if you've never seen it) blending with a Steve Carell comedy and American indie sensibilities, Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World promises two things: a road trip with Keira Knightley and a title that most cinemas will have trouble fitting on their marquees.

Its greatest crime isn't that its one joke is tiresome from the thirty - minute mark on, it's that at the end of the day the picture doesn't particularly convince as a romance, tickle as a comedy, or score as a satire of any kind.

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.

Too many romantic comedies witlessly hone in on the differences between men and women to create a heightened - stakes backdrop in which every interaction with the opposite sex is imbued with some sort of grand, gender - statement significance, which is of course then supposed to be neatly resolved and tidily put away by the time a paired - off happy ending rolls around.

That isn't meant to give too much heft to a fairly silly and overly episodic comedy about a Manhattan couple, Linda (Aniston) and George (Rudd), whose careers dead - end on the same day.

Pixar's keystone franchise takes on the tone of its more serious recent films (Wall - E and Up), mixing comedy, action and emotion in a way that's pure magic: we end up laughing, frightened and crying tears...

steers the discussion towards apologia as the likes of Daniels and producer Bradley Thomas reflect on the societal importance of comedy, sounding a lot like Joel McCrea at the end of Sullivan's Travels in the process.

As a romantic comedy, Safety Not Guaranteed works remarkably well, and even if the resolution leaves a few unanswered questions, the film certainly ends on a high note.

The World's End: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Edgar Wright on their apocalypse comedy - video interview

Still, a comedy like this could have and should have been better than what ended up on screen.

Even so, as a comedy, it has a trickier run at recognition (though depending on which category Dench and Thompson end up in, she might end up winning the Golden Globe for Comedy / Musical, which could comedy, it has a trickier run at recognition (though depending on which category Dench and Thompson end up in, she might end up winning the Golden Globe for Comedy / Musical, which could Comedy / Musical, which could help).

The Eye net on Wednesday handed series orders to Cedric The Entertainer «s Welcome to the Neighborhood as well as an untitled comedy starring Damon Wayans, Jr. (New Girl, Happy Endings).

The World's End is a highly entertaining science fiction / comedy hybrid that constantly fires on all cylinders.

Rogen seems to be on quite a humour high at the moment, especially after the success of ensemble comedy THIS IS THE END.

He said it had taken him six years to make «Delirious,» a (mostly) comedy about a low - end paparazzo (Steve Buscemi) who takes on a homeless kid (Michael Pitt) as his assistant.

That opening would be on par with the 2014 R - rated comedy «Tammy,» which opened with $ 21 million and ended up with $ 84 million domestically.

The Band's Visit (PG - 13 for brief profanity) Cross-cultural comedy about the hijinks which ensue when an Egyptian police orchestra gets lost on its way to a concert in Israel and ends up stranded in a tiny town where everybody learns a touching lesson in tolerance.

Included on the list are Woody Allen's recent critical darling Blue Jasmine, the raunchy Seth Rogen comedy This Is the End, and, surprisingly, the critical and commercial flop The Lone Ranger.

Wright didn't reveal any deep, festering secrets about his adaptation of Bryan Lee O'Malley's beloved slacker / video game comedy (outside of the not - wholly surprising revelation, also discussed on the film's commentary track, that test audiences were super torn on the movie's end).

After The Larry Sanders Show ended in 1998, Shandling took on occasional acting and writing gigs, including writing the screenplay for Mike Nichols» 2000 comedy What Planet Are You From?.

Craig Robinson, one of the actors in some of Hollywood's most popular ensemble film and TV comedies, including «Hot Tub Time Machine,» «This Is the End,» and «The Office,» will be the main star of his own comedy series, «Mr. Robinson,» this summer on NBC.

The five films in this eccentric collection are the hipster youth generation satire Getting Straight with Elliot Gould; the Jeff Goldblum psychics - on - the - run comedy Vibes (notable as the feature debut of Cindi «She - Bop» Lauper); Stephen Frears» first film Gumshoe with Albert Finney; and the first - ever home video releases of Arch Oboler's 1951 end - of - the - world drama Five and Carol Reed's 1959 spy satire Our Man in Havana.

I am just back from the cinema and I am still imitating the lines from blak thunder.The touch of ethan cohen make the sense of the film spread in so many ways.He must to had drunked at least one night with Stiller and decide to make the film that represent the sbluf hollywood production system and his stars.The first scene that comes on mine mind in this moment is the «Appocalypsis Now» scene with Stller and Downey at the end and the quasi-phycological dialog.Wonderfull for a men who was searching for a good comedy, my lastone good comedy was Burn After Reading, before that The Boss of it All fromm LArs von Trier.

For what it is, Caveman is a refreshingly inventive comedy that took a chance on a unique concept, and it has enough good gags to carry its hit - and - miss comic momentum up to the very end.

Brosnan might be known for his heroic roles in multiple Bond flicks but more recently taken on villains in Edgar Wright's sci - fi action comedy The World's End and played a terrorist assassin in Survivor.

It's not that HTTM is a terrible movie — there are moments of great comedy and interesting bits, for sure — but that it really took the lazy way out and decided that gross - out gags, extreme profanity and the mere concept of the plot was enough to carry it on through to the end credits.

While it has a fair amount of lively comedy and exciting spurts of full - on action, one can't help but feel that The World's End is dragged down by its intentional repeating of certain elements, especially with its central twist of mass - chaos.

The latest evidence that some people just have funny bones is Damon Wayans Jr, the son of comedy legend Damon Wayans («The Last Boy Scout «-RRB-, and the latest offspring of the prodigious Wayans family to head towards the big time, thanks to his hysterical role on ABC sitcom «Happy Endings.»

Zippy, kinetic and brashly funny, «The World's End» comes to the U.S. from its native England hard on the heels of «This Is the End,» an American comedy about ordinary mortals (comedians, actually, so maybe not so ordinary) manning up to deal with...