Sentences with phrase «in comedies today»

Completed in 2006, just a few hours away in Charlotte, Hill's indie didn't see release until this summer; by the time it quietly reached theaters, the flick had already solidified McBride as one of the most original lead actors and writers working in comedy today.

Some of the biggest black entertainers in comedy today who aren't Tyler Perry come together in Death at a Funeral, which African - Americanizes a 2007 British film directed by Frank Oz.

Kumail Nanjiani continues to emerge as one of the most unique voices in comedy today with his latest film, The Big Sick.

David Wain is one of the few original voices working in comedy today, bouncing from mainstream studio pictures like Role Models to more oddball fare like Wet Hot American Summer.

Ghostbusters makes its long - awaited return with Director Paul Feig's unique and hilarious take on the classic, supernatural comedy, led by the freshest minds in comedy today, Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones, and Chris Hemsworth.

The two marquee names are Steve Carell and Paul Rudd, who parlayed their roles in the much - celebrated Anchorman (2004) into two of the more reliable and prominent acts in comedy today.

Featuring cameos from Awesome Show regulars and some of the biggest names in comedy today!

But Stiller is as about as strong a leading man as anyone in comedy today, and he helps keep the film afloat despite a flimsy high concept, as do good supporting performances.

New York About Blog The mission of Reductress is to take on the outdated perspectives and condescending tone of popular women's media, through the eyes of the funniest women in comedy today.

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Hourly and half - hourly news bulletins, combined with programs on a host of topics, from sports to culture and cookery to comedy, mean that the radio is arguably still as relevant today as it was in the years before podcasts, the web and streaming.

Three Viacom television brands — MTV, BET, and Comedy Central — showed a brilliant grasp of PR and cause marketing when students across the country today walked out of their classes for 17 minutes today in support the Parkland movement.

What it's about: The type of comedy that would never get made today, «Blazing Saddles» shows Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder at the height of their talents, with a scathing satire on racial attitudes in America.

But that's a pretty meagre offering from the several hundred professional comedians currently working in the UK today, not to mention the thousands of hobbyists, wannabees and journeymen fighting for scraps under comedy's top table.

Been doing high intensity training for cardio... Did accidentally hit myself in the helmet with a jump rope doing it today though... So there's your comedy for the day.

The Coens are rare beasts in today's Hollywood, as capable of turning their hands to thrillers like No Country For Old Men but equally at home with comedies like this one.

In an adjudication published today, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld complaints against Phones4U over an advertisement depicting a cartoon version of the Buddy Christ from the comedy film Dogma, along with the tagline «Miraculous deals on Samsung Galaxy Android phones.»

Today, he's a cult hero, appearing in mainstream comedy films like The Hangover.

Today's charade which can only amount to a travesty in Parliament is a pathetic addition to the countless comedy of contradictions and conflicting accounts that Government has been engaged in since this scandal erupted.

Comedy legend Joan Rivers passed away today in Manhattan at the age of 81.

The movie's got everything from slapstick comedy, to jack - in - the - box spooks, to 17 - year - old Wynona Rider wearing gothic - black attire and it was an essential starting point for many of Hollywood's finest working artists today.

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«Rice on White» is a crass yet heartfelt romantic comedy with an un-PC take on how Asian - American men are perceived in today's dating scene.

Today, he is perhaps best remembered for playing the comedy relief role of the taxi driver, Pidge, in the 1937 serial Secret Agent X-9.

A cavalcade of today's biggest comedy stars and directs join for this anthology of shorts, in theaters January 25th.

In the end it turns out to be quite touching, something that the romantic comedies of today lack.

Honored by festivals and critics groups alike, WHERE TO INVADE NEXT is an expansive, hilarious, and subversive comedy in which the Academy Award ® - winning director confronts the most pressing issues facing America today and finds solutions in the most unlikely places.

The 2014 Academy Award nominations are due later today, with Lawrence widely - tipped to receive a nod for her role as Rosalyn Rosenfeld in O Russell's black comedy American Hustle.

LOS ANGELES — March 7, 2012 — CBS Films announced today that Bryan Cranston (Drive, TV's Breaking Bad), Anna Kendrick (50/50, Up In The Air) and Miles Teller (Footloose, Project X) will star in the comedy tentatively titled Get A JoIn The Air) and Miles Teller (Footloose, Project X) will star in the comedy tentatively titled Get A Join the comedy tentatively titled Get A Job.

dick clark productions announced today that the cast of the film The Big Sick, including Kumail Nanjiani, Zoe Kazan, Holly Hunter and Ray Romano, will receive the «Hollywood Comedy Ensemble Award»; actor Jamie Bell will receive the «New Hollywood Actor Award» for his recent work in «Film Stars Don't Die -LSB-...]

We reported back in October that Carrey was in negotiations to star in director Jared Hess» (Napoleon Dynamite) action - comedy Loomis Fargo, and Relativity Media announced today that...

The IFI French Film Festival 2012 continues today with Camille Rewinds (Camille Redouble) at 18.20, Noémie Lvovsky's Marty McFly - like comedy of a a 40 - year - old boozy divorcee, who one day wakes up in her schooldays of 1985 to be granted a second chance at life.

There's a strong comedy theme today, with Patrick Stewart repping Blunt Talk; Rachel Bloom and Aline Brosh McKenna talking up Crazy Ex-Girlfriend; the cast of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt reassembled; Aziz Ansari, whose Master of None has been another Netflix hit; Gael Garcia Bernal making the switch to TV with Mozart in the Jungle; and Paul Rust & Gillian Jacobs falling in Love.

He also explains how his own Golden Globe - winning performance as James Dean turned Tommy around and led to Franco not only directing, but also starring in this acclaimed comedy, which opens today via A24.

Today, the film remains a heartfelt but shrewdly judged blend of comedy, romance, action and tragedy — a movie that perfectly embodies the classical Hollywood ideal of providing something to appeal to every member of what, in the 1920s, was a wide public still unsevered by demographic categories.

«Drowning Mona,» which opens today, is an ensemble comedy, and with Midler and Danny DeVito in the ensemble, it would seem to be promising.

With the news of Charlie Murphy's passing still fresh in the minds of many, there is perhaps a signal that the comedy world will continue to be brightened by his family and their impeccable comedic chops after word emerged today that Paramount is in the in process of creating a sequel to Coming to America — a film that cemented Eddie Murphy's status as a comedy icon.

They generally stink of too much niceness today, but romantic comedies were already in big trouble in the late 1980s.

The statement, made in a discussion about pornography, could also apply to adult comedies today.

And that it takes a quirky, romantic - comedy involving an undead girl and her living boyfriend to remind us there are no redos in life and to not put off until tomorrow what can be done today is proof of that.

It's clever, and «clever» being anathema in today's romantic comedy genre (if ever it held currency), now it's gone.

In that regard, it is reminiscent of Willmott's own C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America, a brilliant, alternate - reality comedy which speculated about what the country would be like today if the South had won the Civil War.

There's a little bit of something for everyone in today's very full TV Bits, whether your preference is for lightweight comedies, serious dramas, humanoid robots, or good - looking serial killers.

On Monday we brought you the rather yellow, in - your - face first poster for upcoming comedy A.C.O.D. Today we can follow that up by presenting the...

Sony Pictures Classics announced today that the company has acquired the North American distribution rights to Woody Allen's upcoming period piece / romantic comedy titled Magic in the Moonlight.

Arriving in theaters everywhere today is the new buddy cop comedy from Will Ferrell and director Adam McKay called The Other Guys, this time featuring a face we haven't seen in the comedy world in a while - Mark Wahlberg.

Ben Wheatley, a man that needs no introduction around these parts, is one of the most interesting and bold filmmakers working today — with a filmography that stretches across the genre with witty dark comedies to the hyper - violent masterpiece Kill List and the out - of - this - world mind fuck that is A Field in England, nobody quite does it like -LSB-...]

The television duo rode off into the sunset of that series this past September but they've already reteamed on the big screen in the action comedy Keanu which opens today.

The nominees for the 61st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards were announced today in Los Angeles, and the show to garner the most nods was 30 Rock, which received a record 22 nominations for a comedy series.

But there is more than food and wine on tap in a program that also includes dramas on immigration and comedy set in today's tragi - comic world.

Attention, all debutantes, disco lovers, and urban haute bourgeoisie: the first film in well over a decade from Whit Stillman — whose comedies of manners Metropolitan and The Last Days of Disco are available from the Criterion Collection, and who discusses his top ten Criterion titles here — has been picked up for distribution and may see release this year, it was announced today.