Sentences with phrase «great comedy about»

It's a great comedy about this young Irishman who's not just dealing with his own demons with what he's done, but also his general misery as he has to live in Bruges for the next few days.

Good but not great comedy about an inoffensively self centered man who doesn't really seem to mind much the gradual downward spiral his life becomes once he strays from his stable family life.

Not exact matches

CF: Like a great comedy performance, a great presentation is all about communication.

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.

In some sense, indeed, Kierkegaard's life could be written as a kind of dark comedy; despite his premature death, and a great number of sadnesses that afflicted him along the way, there was something enchantingly absurd about his character, a certain benign perversity that often prompted him to make himself willfully ridiculous, and a peculiarly touching element of the ludicrous that clung to him all the way to his early grave.

Great comedies might have you think about new ideas, but

If we engage in the «de-mythologizing» of the Revelation to St. John the Divine, as we must also «de-mythologize» the creation stories in the book Genesis in the Old Testament, we realize that what is being said is that as human existence and the world in which that existence is set has its origin in the circumambient, everlasting, faithful Love that is nothing other than God — we recall Wesley's hymn, quoted a few paragraphs back, that «his nature and his Name is Love», and Dante's great closing line in The Divine Comedy about «the Love that moves the sun and the other stars» — so also the «end» toward which all creaturely existence moves is that very same Love.

Lol David — I don't intend to be insensitive in laughing, rather, to laugh at the silliness of it, a comedy tutor once said to me that comedy is about alchemising what has been pain into passages of great beauty.

Reminds me of what a comedy tutor said about comedy having in common with other art forms of alchemising pain into passages of great beauty.

I thought it would be great to catch up with him about why he's vegan, what's up with all his vegan comedy, what he thinks about time travel and the like.

Clean & sober I have a great work ethic, physically fit short stature enjoy movies comedy pro sports love to laugh been a widower about 9 months just looking to go out and have some fun

But while that film hit every clichéd note you'd expect, despite its good intentions and great ensemble cast, «Other People» breathes new life into the formulaic, dark comedy about death.

Host David Steinberg interviews a trio of comedy greats about their early encounters with show business legends: Billy Crystal talks about his memories of opening for Sammy Davis Jr., Martin Short recalls meeting Jerry Lewis, whom he has often imitated, and Brad Garrett reveals the innocent joke that got him exiled from opening for Frank Sinatra.

Great screwball comedy about the transformation of a plain and repressed girl (splendidly played by Irene Dunne) into an eccentric and loving woman.

There is, no doubt, a great screwball comedy to be made about adult children who won't leave home, and the mothers and fathers who collude in the arrangement — and not just for reasons of economics.

Lancaster and a fine cast are wasted in this comedy about a man assigned to protect a liquor shipment crossing the Great Plains.

«Following in the tradition of great romantic comedies like Notting Hill, Four Weddings and a Funeral and The Proposal, The Pre-Nup is a wholly original romantic comedy of errors about what happens when you mix Brits and Americans, marriage and family, and money with love.»

Put together, this is one of the great dialogue comedies, with far more verbal acuity than most movies about campus life — or most movies, period.

Released: April 14 Cast: Jason Schwartzman, Reggie Watts, Maya Rudolph, Lena Dunham Director: Dash Shaw Why it's great: The scraggly sketch style of acclaimed graphic novelist Dash Shaw comes to life in a teenage dream comedy about a coastal town high school that cascades off a cliff, drifts out to sea, and provokes a student - body class war.

Deathtrap Pinole Community Players present Ira Levin's dark comedy thriller about a once successful author who goes to great lengths to produce new work amid a bout with writer's block.

Somebody obviously likes David Byrne and Brian Eno, but to have every song of the movie sung by them felt like a bad 80's comedy starring Dudley Moore, not a contemporary movie about the financial crash that had such a great impact on all of our lives.

Considered one of the greatest films ever made, The Rules of the Game (La règle du jeu), by Jean Renoir, is a scathing critique of corrupt French society cloaked in a comedy of manners in which a weekend at a marquis» country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois acquaintances.

The Last Days of Emma Blank Matt P. [LIKED] Great black comedy set up, about a rich and empathy impaired superbitch using her fortune to make everyone around her behave how she wants them to.

Despite a promising trailer and a great cast, this French - American comedy - thriller is a complete misfire because Luc Besson seems unclear about how to create a black comedy.

The great recession of» 08 - 09 has gained blanket coverage in just about every form of media and it's only fitting that it now has its very own romantic comedy.

Payne has often been likened to the great Preston Sturges, and a generous reading of this movie's unwieldy structure might position it in the spirit of Sturges» classic 1941 comedy «Sullivan's Travels,» with its nutty hairpin turns, earnest doofus hero and sincere if sanctimonious moralizing about What Humanity Really Needs.

«The great romantic comedy about first - world power has yet to be written,» McFeely jokes.

With new Ben Wheatley movie Free Fire on release this week, Sean Wilson chats to one of the director's closest collaborators Dan Martin about the art of great practical effects... Blasting onto screens in a hail of gunfire, mismatched accents and some choice 1970s costumes, Free Fire is the riotously entertaining new black comedy from -LSB-...]

When: October 24th Why: I was originally going to write about Lynn Shelton's sweet coming - of - age comedy «Laggies,» but after hearing so many great things about «John Wick» after its debut at this year's Fantastic Fest, it seemed crazy not to highlight that film instead.

Four Lions (R for sexual references and pervasive profanity) Jihad comedy, set in Great Britain, about the hapless antics of an inept, home - grown terrorist cell comprised of a quartet (Adeel Akhtar, Kay Van Novak, Nigel Lindsay and Riz Ahmed) of discontented Muslims bent on wreaking havoc with explosives.

Although The Disaster Artist maintains a great reverence for The Room, the film can be seen as a funny comedy about how such true - to - life absurdities can be a catalyst for such a terrible yet mesmerising piece of art.

The great Walton Goggins (Justified) and Shea Whigham (Boardwalk Empire, Agent Carter) have joined the cast of Danny McBride's HBO comedy about the inner workings of a high school.

What we are excited about: Ed Helms and Owen Wilson have plenty of great comedies on their resumes.

Though Curtis has recently announced that «About Time» will likely be his final film as a director, the movie represents everything that's great about the kind of romantic comedies Curtis excels at maAbout Time» will likely be his final film as a director, the movie represents everything that's great about the kind of romantic comedies Curtis excels at maabout the kind of romantic comedies Curtis excels at making.

It examines three specific films in which Charlie Chaplin explored the topic of war and the evolution of his personal views and his use of dark comedy, spanning almost thirty years from being pro-war in Shoulder Arms (1918), a pacifist and anti-war in The Great Dictator (1940), and Monsieur Verdoux (1947) is about the individual's war against society and business interests that provoked international wars.

His other books include «The Dream Team - The Rise and Fall of DreamWorks: Lessons from the New Hollywood» (2006), «I'll Have What She's Having: Behind the Scenes of the Great Romantic Comedies» (2008) and «Jar Jar Binks Must Die... and other observations about science fiction movies» (2011).

Every time I watch Noah Baumbach's Frances Ha (at this point, the number has to have climbed into double digits), I become more convinced that it's one of the great comedies of the 21st century, not to mention one of the great films, period, about postgraduate life.

It is, of course, dark comedy, but it's comedy nonetheless, and it's about as far on the other side of the spectrum from No Country as they could get while still maintaining everything that is uniquely Coen: twists, unexpected carnage, and a cast that elevates a really good movie into being a really great movie.

The network has unleashed trailers for a slew of new shows they're hoping will catch your eye, including a different kind of superhero show (MacGyver), another film - to - TV remake (Training Day), a new Jason Katims drama (Pure Genius), a new Joel McHale comedy (The Great Indoors), and two separate, unrelated comedies about working - class men forced to spend time at home (Kevin James «Kevin Can Wait and Matt LeBlanc «s Man With a Plan).

Not only is this a great comedy and a relatable story about adjusting to a new life in a new place, but it's also a rather beautiful story of two strangers whose bond becomes bigger than the one that their parents are about to share together.

She starred as Estella in the BBC adaptation of Great Expectations in 2011, and as Joanna in Richard Curtis» romantic comedy About Time in 2013.

How about the movie lots of folks think is Hollywood's greatest comedy — 1959's «Some Like It Hot,» a funny film with a film - noir pedigree.

(Grade: A --RRB-: This touching, profound and gently humorous German comedy / drama — about a teenage boy, circa 1989, who goes to great lengths to keep his invalid mother from learning communism has collapsed in East Germany — encapsulates the emotion and drama of that epochal event in such a satisfying way it seems destined to become a classic.

He deserves to be remembered as one of «the greats» and if modern audiences watched The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, even though it's about 70 years old, they would find that the comedy holds up remarkably well.

He had made great films such as Harold & Maude and The Last Detail, but this is a satirical comedy film and it will leave you with a lot of inspiration and ideas about philosophy coined by Heidegger.

«' The Room» has been playing for 14 - and - a-half years, sort of like the new «Rocky Horror Picture Show» but, like, even worse,» Franco, 39, chuckles about the ineptly written, acted and directed tale of romantic betrayal that novice director Wiseau thought would be a Tennessee Williams - style, Oscar - contending drama, but since its laughed - at premiere has agreed with the world that it is a so - bad - its - great comedy.

A gag - filled romp about a bunch of prank - loving Vermont state troopers starring the comedy troupe Broken Lizard, Super Troopers is one of the great comedies of the new millennium, endlessly quotable, and just as funny today as the day it was released.

Robespierre's follow - up, a 90s set comedy about a family dealing with two separate instances of infidelity, may not have accrued the same cult following, nor is it likely to pock as many end of year favorites lists, but the dramedy has tonal and directorial elements similar of a budding Noah Baumbach, who has since gone on to great acclaim.

MASH is illustrative of the fact that a great comedy can be about any subject matter, even one as grotesque as an Army field hospital where soldiers are dying.

«Dan in Real Life» is not a perfect movie by any means, but right when you're about to give it credit for not being an unwatchable wreck (ahem, «Along Came Polly,» the definitive «Everybody Hates Ben» movie), you remember that it also had the potential to be both a great family comedy and a great romantic comedy.