Sentences with phrase «less about comedy»

Despite the lack of discipline, Apatow is trying to stretch himself, to say something about human nature: his insight here is less about comedy than about adult life as a succession of equivocations and betrayals.

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The study revealed that less than 10 percent of adult viewing on Netflix was of its much - buzzed - about original series, like «House of Cards,» its political drama, and «Orange Is the New Black,» the dark comedy about prison.

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2018-04-08 12:18 Watch In a Relationship by Sam Boyd on Short of the Week — a Comedy about Love in the short is less an examination of dating as a construct and is more In Ontario, the normal dating ultrasound is 8 - 10 weeks.

If you like dark comedies which tell a certain truth about the less cheerful side of life, give this movie a chance.

Clocking in at just less than 3 hours, «Django Unchained» is about 40 minutes longer than a B - movie - Western - comedy has any right to be.

This week, catch the latest trailers for summer comedies «30 Minutes or Less,» «Submarine,» and «The Change - Up,» and read news about «The Dark Knight Rises,» «The Hunger Games,» and other films in production.

Comedy today is less about punch lines and pratfalls and more about eliciting that laugh - gasp hybrid.

Drew Goddard's witty horror flick is a superbly self - aware comedy that is better the less you know about it.

Also screened: Sadako Vs. Kayako (Grade: B --RRB-, an entertaining, teen - friendly marriage of the The Ring and The Grudge mythologies that (thank God) has a sense of humor about itself, even though its final confrontation is less than satisfying; Dearest Sister (Grade: C +), a poetic (and rather slow) meditation on class conflict couched in a ghost story from Laotian director Mattie Do; and Down Under (Grade: B --RRB-, a Superbad - style profane coming - of - age comedy set against the backdrop of the Cronulla race riots that took place in Sydney, Australia in Christmas 2005.

Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer is evidently now locked to follow - up his aforementioned hit horror - com with 30 Minutes or Less, a most - likely R - rated comedy about a slacker pizza delivery man facing an explosive ultimatum at the instruction of a pair of goons.

Having recently displayed palpable chemistry with a romantic interest even while in less than favorable conditions, Sam Rockwell has gone ahead and signed on for another comedy about two people who fall in love under «strange circumstances.»

I'm a lot less snobby about comedy than some of my fellow critics and won't write something off for being immature or crude (Due Date and Horrible Bosses cracked my recent list of the top 100 films of the half - decade).

The sequel to Ruben Fleischer «s (30 Minutes or Less) kindhearted post-apocalyptic zombie comedy has been talked about and sometimes doubted for the last eight years now.

More or less everything about this horror comedy starring Rogen, Jay Baruchel, James Franco, Jonah Hill, Danny McBride, and Craig Robinson, is funny.

The start was about two million less than Clooney's last film as director — the comedy Leatherheads (this new effort has had better reviews - read ours), and the political aspect has more in common with Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and Good Night, and Good Luck.

Like Ride Along and Think Like A Man, The Wedding Ringer relies heavily of Hart's usual charm and comedic talents to carry a somewhat mediocre concept through to box office glory, but with a less than stellar box office take in the US thus far (the No. 1 US comedy for three weeks in a row is clutching at straws to say the least), is Hart's bubble about to burst?

The plot of «Welcome to the Jungle» feels less like a sequel to the Robin Williams movie about the magical board game and more like «The Breakfast Club», upgraded with body - switcheroo comedy and some retro «Indiana Jones» thrills.

Similarly, I have a hard time imagining how Stuck on You — a hilarious yet ideologically tricky slapstick comedy by bad - taste maestros Bobby and Peter Farrelly about Siamese twins joined at the hip — could have been conceived, much less made, in any country but this one.

Jim Parsons costars with Morgan Freeman in «10 Items or Less,» a comedy about an actor preparing for a role involving a grocery store.

When we last spoke with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost about their new sci - fi comedy, «Paul,» it was under less - than - desirable circumstances.

In Carl Matheson «s early aughties piece on the humour of TVs The Simpsons, he talks about something he calls hyper - irony: «The flavor of humor offered by today's comedies is colder, based less on a shared sense of humanity than on a sense of world - weary cleverer - than - thou - ness.»

In a less esoteric sense, the film is arguably the first major studio release since Carnal Knowledge to attempt a dysfunctional comedy about fucking that's so frank and unapologetic in regards to the destructive prurience of the male gaze.

They may be less enthralled by the strange cocktail offered up here by director David Leitch (the two John Wick movies), which plays at being be an ambitious espionage thriller — it's set in 1989 Berlin as the wall is about to fall — but is happy to drop everything to watch Theron indulge in the brutal black comedy of violent beat - downs.

Gunn himself had previously scripted The Specials — a madcap comedy about a second - rank superheroic ensemble — but Super offers humour of an altogether less comfortable variety.

With so - called puberty «monsters» speaking directly to characters as if imaginary friends with raging libidos, the comedy is not only raunchy, but also completely relatable for those who know puberty is less about blossoming, and more about finding a quiet place to jerk off.

An Argentine comedy trumps «Birdman» and «The Imitation Game» while the confab says it could care less about Best Picture candidates

Besides movies about comedy and / or Gillian Jacobs, it's hard to say what makes a «Tribeca» film, at least on the fiction side; the festival has much less of an identity than, say, Sundance or NYFF.

But in a field of comedies and docs, Sophia Takal's movie about the conflict between two actor friends, one successful (Caitlin FitzGerald) and one less so (Mackenzie Davis), looks bolder and sharper.

Less a spoof of vampire flicks than a fish - out - of - water romantic comedy about a Victorian nobleman trying to negotiate the dating scene of Studio 54 - era Manhattan, this enjoyably silly film is no one's idea of great cinema, but writer Robert Kaufman's concept of a vampire being the standard bearer for old - style morality and romance is an inherently funny conceit helped immensely by a straight - faced lead performance by Hamilton.

Movies are rarely about plumbers, and romantic comedies even less so.

F Moonrise Kingdom Rated PG - 13 for sexual content and smoking Available on DVD and Blu - ray Writer / Director Wes Anderson (Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums) once again assembles a huge Hollywood A-List cast (Bruce Willis, Ed Norton and Bill Murray to name a few) for a feel good, slightly - less - than - family - friendly comedy about two pre-teen love birds who run away from home for an extended camping trip.

Title: Kekkaishi Genre: Action, Comedy, Supernatural Author: Yellow Tanabe Synopsis: Yoshimori couldn't care less about catching demons... until he realizes that his apathetic attitude is taking a toll on his friendship with Tokine.

Our tendency to avoid thinking too hard about jokes is understandable — after all, there seems to be nothing less funny than analyzing comedy.