Sentences with phrase «featuring great comedy»
Zootopia is a thrilling and eye - opening cinematic experience featuring great comedy (a scene at the DMV is one of the funniest scenes I've seen onscreen this year) and a tremendous script.
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Show to Watch for: The Meyers - created animated comedy The Awesomes, which debuted in August, features the voices of SNL alum Kenan Thompson, Bill Hader and Taran Killam as members of the world's (former) greatest superhero team.
In April of last year, Abdul - Jabbar traveled to New York City to appear on The Late Show with David Letterman in a comedy skit featuring former great athletes.
You may have seen it featured in the hit comedy «The Hangover» starring Zach Galifianakis: the BabyBjorn Baby Carrier is a really great carrier for dads of all sizes.
Expect to see some great documentaries, performances, music, films and topical features as well as some cracking drama and comedy.
If this would have been a slightly longer feature, with a bit more depth to its sheer ridiculous plot, then Blood Car would really have been a great horror comedy.
Joe Dante's a great filmmaker, but I wish he had made his return to features with a movie better than Burying The Ex, a glib, EC Comics - influenced horror comedy that would probably work better as a short chapter in an anthology film.
This is a great way to approach a raunchy comedy, to not only feature the gross out but also simply clever, humor with a great sense of timing.
As you can see in this short special feature from Criterion's release of The Great Dictator (out next week on Blu - ray and DVD), which compares Charles Chaplin's 1940 masterpiece with his brother Syd Chaplin's 1921 silent comedy King, Queen, Jo...
Animated feature «The Croods» «Despicable Me 2» WINNER: «Frozen» «Monsters University» «The Wind Rises» Action movie «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» «Iron Man 3» WINNER: «Lone Survivor» «Rush» «Star Trek Into Darkness» Actor in an action movie Henry Cavill — «Man of Steel» Robert Downey Jr. — «Iron Man 3» Brad Pitt — «World War Z» WINNER: Mark Wahlberg — «Lone Survivor» Actress in an action movie WINNER: Sandra Bullock — «Gravity» Jennifer Lawrence — «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» Evangeline Lilly — «The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug» Gwyneth Paltrow — «Iron Man 3» Comedy WINNER: «American Hustle» «Enough Said» «The Heat» «This Is the End» «The Way Way Back» «The World's End» Actor in a comedy Christian Bale — «American Hustle» WINNER: Leonardo DiCaprio — «The Wolf of Wall Street» James Gandolfini — «Enough Said» Simon Pegg — «The World's End» Sam Rockwell — «The Way Way Back» Actress in a comedy WINNER: Amy Adams — «American Hustle» Sandra Bullock — «The Heat» Greta Gerwig — «Frances Ha» Julia Louis - Dreyfus — «Enough Said» Melissa McCarthy — «The Heat» Sci - fi / horror movie «The Conjuring» WINNER: «Gravity» «Star Trek Into Darkness» «World War Z» Foreign language film WINNER: «Blue Is the Warmest Color» «The Great Beauty» «The Hunt» «The Past» «Wadjda» Documentary feature «The Act of Killing» «Blackfish» «Stories We Tell» «Tim's Vermeer» WINNER: «20 Feet from Stardom» Song «Atlas» — Coldplay — «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» «Happy» — Pharrell Williams — «Despicable Me 2» WINNER: «Let It Go» — Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson - Lopez — «Frozen» «Ordinary Love» — U2 — «Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom» «Please Mr. Kennedy» — Justin Timberlake, Oscar Isaac and Adam Driver — «Inside Llewyn Davis» «Young and Beautiful» — Lana Del Rey — «The Great Gatsby» Score WINNER: Steven Price — «Gravity» Arcade Fire — «Her» Thomas Newman — «Saving Mr. Banks» Hans Zimmer — «12 Years a Slave&Comedy WINNER: «American Hustle» «Enough Said» «The Heat» «This Is the End» «The Way Way Back» «The World's End» Actor in a comedy Christian Bale — «American Hustle» WINNER: Leonardo DiCaprio — «The Wolf of Wall Street» James Gandolfini — «Enough Said» Simon Pegg — «The World's End» Sam Rockwell — «The Way Way Back» Actress in a comedy WINNER: Amy Adams — «American Hustle» Sandra Bullock — «The Heat» Greta Gerwig — «Frances Ha» Julia Louis - Dreyfus — «Enough Said» Melissa McCarthy — «The Heat» Sci - fi / horror movie «The Conjuring» WINNER: «Gravity» «Star Trek Into Darkness» «World War Z» Foreign language film WINNER: «Blue Is the Warmest Color» «The Great Beauty» «The Hunt» «The Past» «Wadjda» Documentary feature «The Act of Killing» «Blackfish» «Stories We Tell» «Tim's Vermeer» WINNER: «20 Feet from Stardom» Song «Atlas» — Coldplay — «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» «Happy» — Pharrell Williams — «Despicable Me 2» WINNER: «Let It Go» — Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson - Lopez — «Frozen» «Ordinary Love» — U2 — «Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom» «Please Mr. Kennedy» — Justin Timberlake, Oscar Isaac and Adam Driver — «Inside Llewyn Davis» «Young and Beautiful» — Lana Del Rey — «The Great Gatsby» Score WINNER: Steven Price — «Gravity» Arcade Fire — «Her» Thomas Newman — «Saving Mr. Banks» Hans Zimmer — «12 Years a Slave&comedy Christian Bale — «American Hustle» WINNER: Leonardo DiCaprio — «The Wolf of Wall Street» James Gandolfini — «Enough Said» Simon Pegg — «The World's End» Sam Rockwell — «The Way Way Back» Actress in a comedy WINNER: Amy Adams — «American Hustle» Sandra Bullock — «The Heat» Greta Gerwig — «Frances Ha» Julia Louis - Dreyfus — «Enough Said» Melissa McCarthy — «The Heat» Sci - fi / horror movie «The Conjuring» WINNER: «Gravity» «Star Trek Into Darkness» «World War Z» Foreign language film WINNER: «Blue Is the Warmest Color» «The Great Beauty» «The Hunt» «The Past» «Wadjda» Documentary feature «The Act of Killing» «Blackfish» «Stories We Tell» «Tim's Vermeer» WINNER: «20 Feet from Stardom» Song «Atlas» — Coldplay — «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» «Happy» — Pharrell Williams — «Despicable Me 2» WINNER: «Let It Go» — Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson - Lopez — «Frozen» «Ordinary Love» — U2 — «Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom» «Please Mr. Kennedy» — Justin Timberlake, Oscar Isaac and Adam Driver — «Inside Llewyn Davis» «Young and Beautiful» — Lana Del Rey — «The Great Gatsby» Score WINNER: Steven Price — «Gravity» Arcade Fire — «Her» Thomas Newman — «Saving Mr. Banks» Hans Zimmer — «12 Years a Slave&comedy WINNER: Amy Adams — «American Hustle» Sandra Bullock — «The Heat» Greta Gerwig — «Frances Ha» Julia Louis - Dreyfus — «Enough Said» Melissa McCarthy — «The Heat» Sci - fi / horror movie «The Conjuring» WINNER: «Gravity» «Star Trek Into Darkness» «World War Z» Foreign language film WINNER: «Blue Is the Warmest Color» «The Great Beauty» «The Hunt» «The Past» «Wadjda» Documentary feature «The Act of Killing» «Blackfish» «Stories We Tell» «Tim's Vermeer» WINNER: «20 Feet from Stardom» Song «Atlas» — Coldplay — «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» «Happy» — Pharrell Williams — «Despicable Me 2» WINNER: «Let It Go» — Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson - Lopez — «Frozen» «Ordinary Love» — U2 — «Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom» «Please Mr. Kennedy» — Justin Timberlake, Oscar Isaac and Adam Driver — «Inside Llewyn Davis» «Young and Beautiful» — Lana Del Rey — «The Great Gatsby» Score WINNER: Steven Price — «Gravity» Arcade Fire — «Her» Thomas Newman — «Saving Mr. Banks» Hans Zimmer — «12 Years a Slave»
An all new feature film from the twisted minds of cult comedy heroes Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim («Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job»)!
Mel Brooks, who made jaws drop with the audaciously tasteless «Springtime for Hitler» musical number at the climax of his 1968 slapstick comedy The Producers, will be on hand at Los Angeles's Aero Theatre this Saturday, May 5, to discuss both that film and Charlie Chaplin's wartime burlesque The Great Dictator, which are showing as a double feature.
A Chinese star who grew up in England (which accounts for her excellent English) and who's appeared in almost 70 films since 1984, including most of the features of Wong Kar - wai, Cheung is exceptionally gifted when she's doing comedy (as in the 1989 The Iceman Cometh) and pantomime (as in her great performance as the silent Shanghai film actress Ruan Ling - yu in Stanley Kwan's 1991 masterpiece Actress).
It also allows for the actors to take part in some self - deprecating humor (there is a nerdy, never been kissed teenager stuck inside Dwayne Johnson's statuesque features, and it makes for great comedy).
Over ten years before Rob Reiner («All in the Family», This is Spinal Tap) would direct the great romantic comedy, When Harry Met Sally, he wrote this very similar piece for ABC television, which featured a very similar premise of two best friends of the opposite sex that develop feelings for one another, but are unsure whether or not they should stay friends or take it a step beyond.
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Say Anything features a very well - developed love story mixed with great comedy and serious drama, but also never seems uneven in tone, astonishing for a first - time director.
Rather than just another raunchy R - rated comedy featuring women instead of men, the film had a great deal of sympathy for its beleaguered trio of mothers played by Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell, and Kathryn Hahn.
A slapstick comedy featuring a host of great clowns, CADDYSHACK boosted the career of «Saturday Night Live» alum Bill Murray and revived the sagging fortunes of the wonderful Rodney Dangerfield, whose opening scenes are some of the funniest on film.
DreamWorks Animation's musical comedy Trolls, featuring the voices of Anna Kendrick and Justin Timberlake, powered its way to a great $ 45.6 million opening weekend for # 2, while Mel Gibson's critically acclaimed World War II drama Hacksaw Ridge took third with $ 14.7 million.
Also valuable and worth noting is «La Vie En Rose» which of course featured a spectacular turn by Marion Cotillard that was unexpectedly celebrated by Oscar, Zoe Cassavetes «severely underrated, wry and sweet, «Broken English,» which includes a very winning and charming turn by Parker Posey; Susanne Bier «s Danish drama, «After the Wedding» and perhaps surprisingly equally engaging, her underrated survival and recovery drama, «Things We Lost In The Fire,» which is made great by Benicio Del Toro (and even Halle Berry evinces that she's capable of good work in spots), Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul «s always mysterious and bifurcated, «Syndromes And A Century» (which has elements of both sci - fi and comedy).
Featuring a heap of great performances from Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Ben Whishaw, and Olivia Colman, The Lobster manages to thread the needle between dry comedy and an intelligent meditation on the way we socialize love.
Opening Feb. 12, AWFJ's Movie of the Week is How To Be Single, the new female - centric comedy from director Christian Ditter (Love, Rosie) featuring a stellar ensemble cast of some of today's greatest young actresses.
The Darjeeling Limited: Criterion Edition Rated R for language Available on DVD and Blu - ray Wes Anderson's film about three brothers (Owen Wilson, Adrian Brody and Jason Schwartzman) traveling through India to visit their missionary mom is getting the ultimate collectors touch with this new Criterion set which contains tons of great special features and everything you would ever want to know about what went on in the making of the surreal comedy.
Great cinematography, a memorably terrific supporting cast featuring Hector Elizondo (Beverly Hills Cop III) and Ralph Bellamy (Amazon Women on the Moon), and a perfect balance of fluff comedy and serious drama.
(2015) dir Jamie Babbit w / Judy Greer, Natasha Lyonne, Aubrey Plaza, Malcolm Barrett, Ron Livingston, Allison Tolman, Fred Armisen [85 min; DCP] This black comedy from director Jamie Babbit (But I'm A Cheerleader) features the great Judy Greer — finally in a starring role — as Shannon, a fresh - out - of - rehab sex addict, whose optimistic sister Martha (Lyonne) lands her a job as a maid at Fresno Suites, the local hotel.
In typical 1980s teen film fashion, the film features a great deal of inventive visual energy, a nonstop hit soundtrack, and plenty of goofing around (including the breaking of the fourth wall to clue us in on the comedy).
Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie Directed by: Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim — Starring: Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis, John C. Reilly, Robert Loggia, Jeff Goldblum, Will Forte, William Atherton, Erica Durance An all new feature film from the twisted minds of cult comedy heroes Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim («Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job»)!
The raunchy but heartfelt story showcases Schumer as a hilarious leading lady and the film's great ensemble cast (featuring a nearly - unrecognizable Tilda Swinton, a perky Vanessa Bayer and a memorable LeBron James) helped make this a strong and unique comedy.
«Vacation,» a sequel, if you will, to a series that includes «National Lampoon's Vacation» (voted the 46th greatest comedy film of all time by Total Film magazine in 2000), features Ed Helms in the leading role of a pilot on a low - rent airline shuttling people from South Bend, Indiana to Chicago in eighteen minutes.
From film noir to screwball comedy to the roman - tic classics, here are some of the greatest films of Hollywood's Golden Age featuring cocktails in unforgettable supporting roles.
My Best - Friend's Wedding: One of the greatest romantic comedies of all time, featuring such classic comfort elements as: Julia Roberts, giant cell phones, multiple musical numbers, Carrie Preston and Rachel Griffiths as slatternly bridal cousins, scheming, a chase, and a fantastic ending.
Other Grooms films include: The Big Sneeze (1962), a hand - drawn comic filmed by Rudy Burckhardt; Before an» After (1964), a sadomastic comedy that casts Mimi Gross as part dominatrix / part healthclub operator; Fat Feet (1966), a collaboration with Mimi Gross, Yvonne Andersen and Dominic Falcone that begins where Shoot the Moon ends; Tapping Toes (1968 - 70), which uses his first sculpto - pictorama City of Chicago (1967) as its set; Conquest of Libya by Italy (1912 - 13)(1972 - 3), a black and white animation that spoofs that era's newsreels; Hippodrome Hardware (1973), based on Grooms» 1972 live performance of the same name, whose main character Mr. Ruckus is played by Grooms; Grow Great (1974), a live - action short that features Mimi Gross as the household consumer; Little Red Riding Hood (1978), which features his daughter Saskia; and Man Walking Up (1984).