Sentences with phrase «film comedy»

That says something about the roles for women on TV vs. in film comedy.

A good film comedy needs more than just funny lines and humorous situations to work well from beginning to end.

For better or for worse, a certain type of filmmaking has come to dominate American film comedy.

His first film is a model of what a modern film comedy might be.

Ultimately, good intentions aside, the only point that You Don't Mess With the Zohan really proves is Newton's Law of Gravity; cowriter Judd Apatow has been THE dominant voice in American film comedy for the last three years (and I'm even counting the underrated Drillbit Taylor), but this movie proves that even HE had to come down some time!

Bianca Del Rio, the Queen of Mean, wants to star in a feature film comedy about a teacher who is fired for being gay.

In many ways, Simon Pegg is the Quentin Tarantino of British film comedy; there are so many throwaway gags that it'll take multiple viewings to spot them all and I'm sure that the majority of the film references will be lost on a...

Jonathan Bouknight mixes elements of silent film comedy and nightmare in his video installation Nightingales, currently on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia through September 12.

Deadline is reporting that director Barry Levinson is teaming with Billy Crystal for a new feature film comedy entitled Revival, which has been scripted by Phil Primason (5 Doctors).

Back and wilder than ever, the sequel to the smash hit television and film comedy troupe, Trailer Park Boys, is finally...

This year he will star in This is Forty and The Sapphires and Chris is currently filming comedy series Moone Boy at Ireland's Ardmore Studios which he developed and co-wrote for Sky television.

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

New film comedy is a missed opportunity for its talented star, with a story that pulls its punches too often, delivering a tepid comedy that is only mildly diverting.

According to Jamie Perry, vice president of brand and product development for Jet Blue, the airline made the short film a comedy because you can't preach to people but you can be irreverent and humorous to get the same point across.

He bumbled and stumbled around in several youth - oriented film comedies, notably as Vincent Price's dimwitted assistant in Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1966) and Elvis Presley's careless sidekick in Tickle Me (1965).

His offbeat, emotionally charged film comedies — which also include As Good as It Gets (1997) and Spanglish (2004)-- like his television shows, are always distinctive, humanist panoramas of group dynamics, swelling and flowing with themes one could call Renoirian: that folks are inconsistent, that one man's comedy is another woman's tragedy, that shared experience can isolate individuals just as easily as it can connect them, and that conflict is rarely resolved by the closing credits.

Apatow seems to take undue heat for trying to craft film comedies that aspire to something (beyond being funny, which they reliably are).

He wants to film the comedy before he takes on Bond, which could present some scheduling conflicts.

The closest that Hollywood film comedy has come to dealing with a post-crash world is The Internship (Shawn Levy, 2013), which is essentially a mash - up of Wedding Crashers and a commercial for Google.

by Jefferson Robbins To sample three Blu - ray editions fresh out from discount distributor Mill Creek Entertainment, you'd think film comedy in the late 1980s and early»90s was at a tipping point.

If you're not a giant film comedy or acting buff, see «Natural Born Killers» instead.

Such a turn is to be lamented because Allen can, when he's being careful and craftsmanlike, compete successfully for laughs and meaning along the physical dimensions that film comedy requires.

RT to win Warner Bros.» 20 FILM COMEDY COLLECTION feat.

In the first film the comedy was very well - blended and with the sequel it was more laugh - out - loud, which I felt didn't work with the tone of the film.

But it indicates what much film comedy has become: a slightly sourish cocktail of bad behavior, wry observation, and commentary on how difficult modern life can be, especially for characters who feel entitled to a better one.

«The New Guy,» apparently, is following the new school of film comedy established by «The Sweetest Thing» in which continuity is discarded for random gags.

Here at The A.V. Club, we're pretty big on the movies director Edgar Wright has made with star and co-writer Simon Pegg — so much so that all three of them appear on our list of the best film comedies since 2000.

That's why I find smart film comedies are generally ranked below smart non-comedies on Imdb.

On October 30, Cruel and Unusual Comedy from the Desmet Collection of the EYE Film Institute, The Netherlands comprises revelatory and even shocking early European film comedies that center on themes of sex, violence, madness, and science fiction, with original music performed live by award - winning composer Donald Sosin and his NYC Eclectic Electric Band.

These were years when the artist tutored himself in painting, taking inspiration from sources including Surrealism, Mexican folk art, American comic strips, and silent - film comedy as he developed his distinctively guileless, heart - on - sleeve storytelling style.

When two best friends team up to film a comedy about getting revenge on bullies, the exercise takes a devastating turn when one of them begins to think of i...

Won't be the comeback Schwarzenegger fans may be hoping for, but there are enough funny moments in Killam's directorial debut to augur a promising future in film comedy.

Wanda constantly turns up on critic - and user - generated lists of the best film comedies of all time.

Joyce Redman, a two - time Oscar - nominated Irish - born actress whose erotically charged dinner - eating scene opposite Albert Finney was a highlight of the bawdy 1963 British film comedy «Tom Jones,» has died.

Sarris once said that much of Agee's famous Life essay on silent film comedy — his evocation of Chaplin's walk or a Keaton gag was gorgeously irrelevant, if you'd seen the films.

Back and wilder than ever, the sequel to the smash hit television and film comedy troupe, Trailer Park Boys, is finally here.

The march of the remakes continues with The Pink Panther, MGM's resuscitation of Blake Edwards» popular eight - film comedy series.

No word on a release date, but Wareheim's confidence is high: «It really is a benchmark in the timeline of American film comedies.

In his introduction, Mankiewicz reminded the audience how «Animal House» and cinematic progeny like «Caddyshack» (1980) «forever changed the face of film comedy.»

In this film, Kevin Hart does not play the «wild short man» which has become a kind of trademark in his film comedy.

He made his screen debut in 1983 in the film comedy Baby It's You, and won the Venice Film Festival's Best Actor award that year for his work in Robert Altman's Streamers.

A stint on Garry Shandling's breakthrough HBO series The Larry Sanders Show (for which she was nominated for an Emmy award in 1996) soon followed, and in 1994 Garofalo reunited with Stiller in the film comedy Reality Bites, a role which earned her the much - despised tag of «Generation X comedian.»

There is terrible comedy, and incoherent plot, characters are not clearly defined or very stereotypical contributing nothing new what so ever to the film

Here's why not: When you make something, whether a highbrow literary novel or a shoot - em - up video game or a film comedy, you should try to do as good a job as possible.

Since it's a comedy, and we see a lot of funny moments during this nearly 2 - hour long movie thanks to Sandler's commitment to his character, were i a film

Stewart decision to make a drama about the imprisonment of Iranian journalist Maziar Bahari — who fielded questions alongside him, as did the Mexican actor who plays him, Gael Garcia Bernal — was instigated when an appearance Bahari made in a filmed comedy sketch on «The Daily Show» was used against him when the Islamic regime accused him of being a traitor and American secret agent.

,» after Ronny / Nicolas Cage declares his love, went into the annals of film comedy and she won an Oscar with a sensitive but stylized performance.