Sentences with phrase «funny film about»

The goal of a film like «Cold Rush» is the viewer will be at a cocktail party a couple days later, someone will mention «bio-prospecting,» and the person will say, «Oh, I just saw a funny film about that — I got that it's about making money off bacteria in the Arctic, but how exactly does that work?»

The follow - up to his festival favourite Force Majeure — in which a cowardly father abandons his family during an avalanche, causing them to look at him with suspicious new eyes — The Square is another wryly funny film about the gulf between a man's actual deeds and his lofty ideals.

It's that kind of anxiety first felt by the leads in Patrick Brice's sophomore feature, The Overnight, a dizzying, debauched, excruciatingly funny film about knitting new connections through discomfort.

Mike Leigh's breakthrough is a funny film about serious things, and an emotional and slyly political take on consumer culture.

is a winning and funny film about gutsy, punk - loving teenage girls

The not so good news is it's in a very long and not very funny film about mops

If you can overlook the morally difficult subject matter, The Diary of a Teenage Girl is a provocative, candid and funny film about the transition from female adolescence to womanhood and, more importantly, the value of self - worth.

A very funny film about a playwright who enlists a gangster to help him bring life and reality to his play, it was one of Allen's best works with hysterically funny performances from John Cusack, the -LSB-...]

«He's not evil, he's just young,» we hear in passing in Noah Baumbach's wickedly funny film about the growing pains that affect us at every stage of life.

● SIGNATURE MOVE, by Jennifer Reeder, finds common ground between a closeted Muslim lawyer (Fawzia Mirza) and a free - spirited Chicana bookstore owner in this heartfelt and funny film about how modern romance can arise from a path steeped in tradition.

This is a smart, warm, relatively innocent and surprisingly funny film about how boys become older boys on their way to eventually becoming men.

John Landis directs this funny film about a pampered African prince named Akeem who, not happy about being in an arranged marriage, and getting tired of a pampered lifestyle, heads to America to try living like a regualr guy and find a wife on his own terms.

Not exact matches

He recently starred in a «Funny or Die» short film about «How to be a Terrorist - in Hollywood.»

The year's funniest movie is probably The Big Sick, a heartwarming romantic comedy written by Kumail Nanjiani and Emily Gordon, who tell their own life story in this film about an interracial couple dealing with their cultural differences.

While a film about unwittingly ordering raw steak on the first awkward date with his now wife was sweet and funny, my favourite film was about an old family tradition involving pie.

a great music film this is the words which i can say about Justin Timberlake + the Tennessee Kids great work by Jonathan demme and great performance bt Justin Timberlake is this movie a history is counted they show the people the history not just the concert i love how jonathan direct this and i love the edition i love how justin timberlake is humble and lovely funny smart with everybody i'm more in love with him.this deserves an emmy and a grammy for best music film at grammys 2018 everybody should watch this movie is amazing congrats justin timberlake netflix and jonathan demme great music film truly amazing maybe we have this film in dvd soon i will love if its happen i» ll love some extras yes i will.

it is funny in deed but, when their is someone to cover Sandler's movie their most likely gonna never make a film again Oh look see Denis Dugan and Frank Coraci BOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! you suck stop making adam sandler movies here is the problem they are directors who don't care about cinematography or shots of using the camera all they care is comedy!!!!!!! see Tyler Perry yeah their just like this big joke.

The really funny thing about this film is that as the kids, Laurel and Hardy don't behave much differently as they generally do as adults.

Heder scored better on all fronts by voicing Reginald «Skull» Skulinski in the Steven Spielberg - produced, CG - animated family film Monster House, a spooky and funny romp about a home that begins devouring trick - or - treaters, and the three youngsters who set out to stop it.The November 2006 release School for Scoundrels returned Heder to live - action material.

I have said before and I'll say again I do like his antics, he is a funny fella and his films are nice feel good films where you can forget about any troubles you have.

a funny, touching film about the foibles of desire and the dreams of stardom shared by both the young and the old

Yet the more I think about the film's twisted scenarios, the funnier I think they are.

To me, it all seemed that the filmmakers didn't care about the end result of the film, and this is a film that is not worth your time, and should be avoided if you're looking for something funny.

Sure it's still quite funny, but the laughs no longer come from the main characters, the trend began in the second film and now the Shrek series is entirely about how funny you can make the extras.

What funniest about this film is that they try to call Vancouver, the Himalayas.

District 9 is partly presented as a faux documentary (rather than a mockumentary, which is what Roger Ebert wrongly labels the film... there is nothing funny about this movie), detailing how 20 years earlier, a huge alien spaceship (think Independence Day) parked itself over Johannesburg and... sat there.

Love, Simon is a very funny and very touching film about the fear of not being accepted in society.

Stories We Tell explores the elusive nature of truth and memory, but at its core is a deeply personal film about how our narratives shape and define us as individuals and families, all interconnecting to paint a profound, funny and poignant picture of the larger human story.

The Puffy Chair is the funniest, saddest and most emotionally honest «romantic comedy» to come along in years, even if I've yet to encounter many over the age of about 35 who like the film, or even get it.

The only real thing I liked in this film was the scene with the three little pigs being bad mercenaries, but the funny thing about it is that Cheech marin plays one pig and Chong plays another, and I found that pretty funny actually, but the rest of the film is just crap, and Is undoubtedly the worst film I've seen this year.

The film was funny, had well paced action sequences, and good dialogue, but once the ending came around, which goes on for about twenty minutes more

«Game Night,» about game - loving partiers who get drawn into a web of danger, is a raucously funny film that has a knack for going right up to the edge of nastiness.

Saoirse Ronan and Laurie Metcalf are terrific in this funny, charming and grounded film about growing up a girl from a modest family discovering herself and aspiring to more than what is expected of her, and parents making hard sacrifices and letting go.

«On Chesil Beach,» which premiered on opening day of the Toronto film festival, is an adaptation of Ian McEwan's 2007 novella about two young Brits on their honeymoon in 1962, and it's a lyrical and rapturous film — a repressed passion play, funny, delicate and heartbreaking.

But still, you wonder about any of their judgements if they thought this film was funny.

I have no problem at all with Harry loving or hating the film, but does he have to make a joke about thinking underage sex is funny?

By the end, the film becomes a brilliant philosophical inside joke about itself that gets funnier every time.

In the film's funniest scene, a klatch of patients laugh off their absurd therapies while bragging about their advancement in various games.

It seems to me that this isn't an entirely original comic concept - Steve Martin did a very funny two - people - in - one - body film about twenty years ago - but it still works great.

For once a comedy in the Animal House school that knows what it's was about: the vulgarity of the gags matches the vulgarity of the subject, and this 1980 film becomes a fierce, cathartically funny celebration of the low, the cheap, the venal — in short, America.

Funny man Jim Carrey is a leader in the business, and this film may follow the success of «There's Something About Mary» and be a big hit.

This year's biggest downer — which is not to take away from the qualities of the film — «Amour» represents a change for director Michael Haneke, whose «Funny Games» is a remarkable thriller about the takeover of a household by two psychopathic youths and whose «The White Ribbon» looks at mysterious goings - on in a feudal village in Germany prior to World War I.

While the film's melodramatic conclusion threatens to undo the goodwill of its first two thirds, it's mostly an intelligent, engaging, and sometimes darkly funny drama about the process — and cost — of 21st century warfare.

It's just one of those quirky «locked in the closet» films that isn't so much about watching people tearing down the walls but bouncing around them in such a funny manner it works.

The middle hour is mostly filler, so devoid of substantive comic bits, that it almost feels like they brainstormed every morning about what might be funny and just rolled film, rather than go with a polished, finished script.

Although there have been many films about pregnancy and the fears involved in having a baby, there are angles here not often taken before in comedy, including what goes through a man's mind when having sex with a pregnant woman («I don't want that to be the first thing the baby sees», etc.) that is funny (because it probably actually does go through a man's mind).

Mike Birbiglia's sensitive, funny, sad, honest film Don't Think Twice, which has more affection for and understanding of a certain kind of comedy person than perhaps any piece of fiction that's ever been written about them.

He has an affability and grace that makes him interesting to watch, but Silberling's film is the equivalent of a funny 20 - minute short that is dragged out to a full - length feature through music interludes and montages involving Paz Vega getting dressed, washing her car, or Freeman learning about Target (the department store).

... Another comic book movie reboot is gearing up to go into production this year in Spawn, and creator and director Todd McFarlane has been chatting about how the title character will communicate in the film, as well as speaking about its hard R - rated tone: «It's funny in Hollywood, if you say you want to do an R - rated movie, they go like «Oh like Deadpooland like Logan?»

In a phone interview from their Brooklyn home, the London - born, crisply funny Ms. Blunt, 33, talked about filming while pregnant and life with another actor.