Sentences with phrase «great comedy doubles»

Final Verdict: It is good to see that clever writing trumps visual gags, especially coming from two of Britain's great comedy doubles.

Richard Jenkins and Bradley Whitford make a great comedy double act as a pair of senior technicians working for a company that simulates horror movie scenarios as part of a sinister grand plan.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

The Thin Man comedies, which follow the sleuthing, smart - talking private eye Nick and his heiress wife Nora, remain one of the enduring delights of vintage Hollywood, but the Academy saw fit to nominate only one half of the double - act (William Powell) that made the series great.

It's also we get a Marvel movie that doubles as a weird buddy comedy that pairs Thor with Mark Ruffalo's Bruce Banner / Hulk, who spend much of the film stranded on an alien - junkyard planet ruled by Jeff Goldblum's royal Grandmaster, a supreme oddball who finds great entertainment in staging gladiator - style coliseum fights.