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Writer and director Adam McKay made an impressive jump from directing feature comedies like Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy and Step Brothers to the real life The Big Short, even earning an Oscar nomination for Best Director and a win for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Not exact matches

Show to Watch for: Cable news provider CNN and Internet comedy / meme site BuzzFeed are investing heavily in a collaborative channel, which will feature future programs like «10 Clips of Anderson Cooper that Will Make You Want Gray Hair.»

Christopher Guest is getting his band of improv» ing geniuses (featured in comedies like Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman and A Mighty Wind) back together for another mocumentary, this time exploring the world of mascots.

The play also featured other vibrant actors like, Foster Romanus, Clemento Suarez, Kojo Delong, Robert KM Ahlijah, Pearl Korkor Darkey, the sensational comedy duo «2 idiots» — General Ntatia & Dr.. So, Fred Amugi, Shaka, Rifkata, Jennie, Vivian and Mawuli Jasparo.

In the meantime, when he wasn't earning Emmy nominations for South Park or teaming with longtime partner Parker for the mock - patriotic puppet comedy Team America: World Police (2004), Stone was racking up producer credits on projects like How's Your News — a documentary series featuring disabled reporters exploring various topics — the short - lived political satire That's My Bush, and Kenny Vs. Spenny, which featured two hyper - competitive best friends taking part in a series of outlandish challenges.

I loved it, I like how it features satire, blue comedy, and the sitcom format.

While much of it is quite funny, the film ends up feeling like a good comedy sketch stretched out unnecessarily to a feature - length.

A Lot Like Love is one of those romantic comedies that features characters so annoying that one hopes they break up and save the gene pool irreparable damage.

Comedy troupe Broken Lizard returns with their fourth feature, which like its predecessors is funnier in concept than execution.

With a cast featuring the likes of Steve Carell, Megan Mullally, Jennifer Coolidge, Donal Glover, Jennifer Garner and Dick Van Dyke, we're hoping the movie will be an amusing, single - day comedy with heart and message underneath.

Aaron Godfred's feature film debut, Little Blue Pill, is a raunchy indie comedy about a young man who accidentally takes Viagra like pills and experiences all the side - effects that comes

Like another recent film, «Moonwalkers,» it features a pretty high level of gore and violence for a comedy.

After securing the 2013 Sundance Film Festival's Screenwriting award, a slot on the National Board of Review's top ten list of indie films, and the vocal support of critical heavy hitters like A.O. Scott, Lake Bell's pitch - perfectly precise comedy In A World... announced itself as one of the more confident debut features in recent memory, let alone from an actor - turned - director / writer.

The feature film debut of Ian Edelman, who created the two - season HBO dramedy «How to Make It in America», Puerto Ricans in Paris looks like it might be a really lowbrow and broad comedy of shenanigans abroad.

Also at the festival are under - the - radar pictures like the Clive Owen / Juliette Binoche film «Words And Pictures,» Andre 3000 - starring Jimi Hendrix biopic «All Is By My Side,» comedy - drama «You Are Here,» the feature debut of «Mad Men» creator Matthew Wiener, Biafra war film «Half Of A Yellow Sun» with Chiwetel Ejiofor, the James Corden - starring «One Chance» (which has the Weinstein Company «s backing, but seems more «Unfinished Song» than «Silver Linings Playbook «-RRB- and, perhaps most importantly, Stephen Frears ««Philomena,» which could see Judi Dench being in contention.

For some reason, he'd like to: Free Fire, a too - pleased - with - itself action comedy, features a bunch of trigger - happy goons in a 1970s warehouse having a violent close - range showdown over constant wisecracks and a briefcase of cash.

Like the trailer, the new spot, which is set to the strains of «It Takes Two,» features a good amount of light - hearted comedy — although the new villain, Ghost, looks to be up to some ghastly business.

When: August 13th Why: Writer / director Luke Greenfield must be a fan of the Fox series «New Girl,» because in casting Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans Jr. opposite each another in this buddy comedy, it feels like a spinoff featuring their characters from the show.

The second feature from director Robert Zemeckis and co-writer and producer Bob Gale, Used Cars comes right out of the screen comedy culture of the late 1970s and early 1980s, when the underdogs snubbed their collective noses at authority, propriety, property and privacy laws and anything else that crossed their paths in slobs vs. snobs comedies like Animal House (1978), Caddyshack (1980) and Ghostbusters (1984).

Grand Jury Award: Carlos Puga, All That I Am Best Feature: Denis Henry Hennely, Goodbye World Best Documentary: Lucy Walker, The Crash Reel Best Animation: Eoin Duffy, The Missing Scarf Best Short Comedy: Michael Neithard, Alive feeling like a buck seventy five Best Short Drama: Michael Tyburski, Palimpsest Audience Choice — Documentary: Sean and Andrea Fine, Life According to Sam Audience Choice — Feature: Brant Sersen, SANATORIUM NH Feature of the Year: David Gordon Greene, Prince Avalanche NH Short Film of the Year: Sophia Savage, Empyrean Best NH Documentary: Todd Kwait, Tom Rush: No Regrets Best NH Performance: Morganna Ekkens for Only Daughter New Hampshire Film of the Year: Aaron Wiederspahn, Only Daughter Van McLeod Award: Lisa Muskat

Of the six features on this set, all but Playtime make their respective American Blu - ray debuts and two appear on disc for the first time in the U.S.. From his debut feature Jour de Fête (1949) to the birth of both M. Hulot and the distinctive Tati directorial approach in his brilliant and loving Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953) through the sublime Playtime (1967) to his post-script feature Parade (1974), this set presents the development of an artist who took comedy seriously and sculpted his films like works of kinetic art driven by eccentric engines of personality.

The film — which also features the likes of Rachel McAdams, Michael Sheen, Carla Bruni, Tom Hiddleston, Kathy Bates, Marion Cotillard and Adrien Brody — provided Allen with his biggest hit, banking over $ 145m at the global box office, and it will also contest the Golden Globe awards for Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Actor — Musical or Comedy (Wilson).

Much like their previous feature film Manborg, The Editor contains a lot of comedy.

And that's where the Love the Coopers trailer comes into play, showing off a new Christmas comedy featuring the likes of Ed Helms, Olivia Wilde, Diane Keaton, Amanda Seyfried and more.

The sensation of being caught in an endless loop is reinforced by the main musical theme, by Kitano regular Joe Hisaishi, a piece of treacle featuring piano and orchestra that's repeated so many times it drills its way into your skull, like one of the elevator - music themes of a comedy by Jacques Tati (or, perhaps closer to the mark, Ryuichi Sakamoto's main theme for Nagisa Oshima's Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, which featured Kitano's first film performance).

Or maybe not, if the trailer for go90's new series Drive Share is anything to go off of: the promo features comedy ringers like Natasha Leggero,...

Audiences could be forgiven for fearing the worst, especially with sub-par family comedies featuring crudely anthropomorphised computer - generated protagonists like The Smurfs and Garfield still painfully fresh in the memory.

Isle of Dogs is a stop - motion animated comedy written and directed by Wes Anderson, featuring voiceovers from the likes of Bryan Cranston, Scarlett Johansson, Bill Murray, and Tilda Swinton, to name a few.

It comes off, however, like a half - baked comedy, a flatly crafted horror feature, and a dully - paced, sometimes amateurish film that never lives up to the high points of what the writer / director has given us in the past.

Lovesick also marks the feature film debut for its writer Dean Young, though he has honed his skill over 25 years in television comedy, where he has written and produced the likes of «Mad About You», «King of the Hill», and «Community.»

Reason: With his last two features, Your Highness and The Sitter, it seemed like director Green was still on a goofy comedy high from his success of Pineapple Express.

And the above - pictured Private Lives, which is a treat if you like early 1930s comedies, and the Lena Horne - featuring Cabin in the Sky on Friday.

For its 25th Anniversary, Def Comedy Jam 25 features a host of black comedy giants — like the quartet pictured above — many of whom got their big break on a DCJ special, for a comedy blowout / Comedy Jam 25 features a host of black comedy giants — like the quartet pictured above — many of whom got their big break on a DCJ special, for a comedy blowout / comedy giants — like the quartet pictured above — many of whom got their big break on a DCJ special, for a comedy blowout / comedy blowout / party.

This dark comedy, action crime thriller mainly features «inventive blackmail schemes, flamboyant gangsters, power politics, greed, evangelicals and sex,» which sounds like fun.

Writer / director John Michael McDonagh (making his feature debut as director) is brother to Martin McDonagh, who teamed with Gleeson and Colin Farrell on the underrated dark comedy In Bruges, and The Guard definitely looks like it has some of the same genes, maybe with even a touch of a less over-the-top Hot Fuzz in there.

Featuring iconic shots from dramas like the «Star Wars» films and comedies like «Bruce Almighty,» as well as short deliveries from the likes of Edward Norton, Scarlett Johansson,

If that sounds a little like every romantic comedy to be released in the wake of When Harry Met Sally, take solace in the fact that the second feature written and directed by Leslye Headland (Bachelorette) actually earns the comparison.

Featuring iconic shots from dramas like the «Star Wars» films and comedies like «Bruce Almighty,» as well as short deliveries from the likes of Edward Norton, Scarlett Johansson, Dustin Hoffman, Sam Rockwell, Leonardo DiCaprio, Uma Thurman, Will Smith, Clint Eastwood, and others, this video proves as entertaining as it does nostalgic.

Cedar Rapids - This witty indie comedy feels like a feature film cousin of NBC's «The Office» back at its very best.

Although it features a recognizable cast, Getting Played plays out like a modestly - budgeted, straight - to - video release, indistinguishable from many romantic comedies that come out on a regular basis at your local video store.

I appreciate screwball comedy but the genre can also feel like I'm watching Looney Tunes for a feature length.

But «The Big Stick» is not one of those semi-awful, schematically spelled out conflicts such as the unfunny «My Big Fat Greek Wedding», but rather features a crackerjack script graced with a marvelous ensemble that mixes melodrama and broad comedy, and comes across like a hilarious memoir based on Kumail's actual marriage to Emily in one of the most beautiful stories of love and its conflicts you may run across in the theaters this year.

Repeated viewings of the comedy — which opens with a scene in which a deer urinates in Sandler's face, and goes downhill from there — has forced the two to get creative in their weekly ruminations, with segments like «Paddy Schwartz Party Time» (parsing out moments from the brief appearances by featured player Patrick Schwarzenegger) and «Steve Buscemi Mystery Tour» (in which they attempt to investigate the never - explained injuries sustained by Buscemi's character).

To bring the guest reviews to a conclusion, I would like to feature Rob from the prolific MovieRob and his take on a comedy classic.

Like most comedies, they start with one clever idea, yet can't figure out how to rally that into a full - length feature.

Based on a simple plot description, it sounds, of course, like another «down - market,» slapstick - laden comedy — a movie perhaps destined to play as part of a late - night, cable TV double feature with 2006's drab Employee of the Month, which starred Jessica Simpson as the mutual object of affection for a pair of feuding retail warehouse workers played by Dane Cook and Dax Shepard.

Hollywood's first decade with sound gave rise to a number of staple genres like the screwball comedy, which featured rapid - fire dialogue laced with wit and whimsy, and lavish musicals.

As often is the case with projects involving «Saturday Night Live» performers, this does seem like a one - joke premise when you first hear of it, and to some extent it is the stuff of skit comedy stretched to feature length, but writers Jeff and Craig Cox, with rewrite assistance from John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky, manage to find enough angles in these eccentric characters and funny premise to not lose steam throughout.

Also, that song was featured in the 1985 sci - fi comedy adventure «Real Genius,» which including a reclusive, child - like genius character!

Army of One's romantic subplot illustrates why King of Comedy was better off not being weighed down by a half hour of scenes featuring Rupert Pupkin's arbitrary love interest (played by, I du n no, Maria Conchita Alonso) about how, as a woman of a certain age who's been banged around by life a bit, she's lucky to have a good - hearted, if someone eccentric ambitious young show business striver like Pupkin in her life.