Sentences with phrase «low budget comedy»

Best Screenplay — African - American Film Critics Feature Film (Low Budget Comedy)-- Casting Society of America

Bad Grandpa is low budget comedy that works so well because of its simplicity.

Despite being a low budget comedy, the film doesn't shy away from its horrific roots, occasionally doubling down on gore with fountains of deep red blood.

Late Night Shopping is a low budget comedy made in Scotland that has no plot other than to show the state of mind that generates from the doldrums of life for young men and women on the lowest rung of the social and economic ladder.

Not exact matches

Shot with an iPhone, this low - budget comedy that focuses on a transgender sex worker out for answers when she learns that her pimp boyfriend has been cheating on her is incredibly executed and the performances are top - notch.

That's what makes his role in this low - budget, R - rated comedy all the more delightful.

As a low - budget horror comedy outing, Severance is an impressive film that is original and lots of fun from start to finish.

His final film appearance — in John T. Kretchmer's low - budget comedy Bad Girls from Valley High — arrived posthumously, in 2005.

A British low budget horror / gore / comedy which is probably suppose to be along the same kind of lines as «American Werewolf» and «Zombie Strippers» but alas it falls way short.

This is all very lightweight and low - budget stuff, but this pleasant comedy sort of grows on the viewer.

A graduate of the Tuskegee Institute, Wayans entered the comic arena in the mid -»80s by stepping up to the mike and honing his stand - up act, but he later branched out into movies, by scripting the low - budget black satire Hollywood Shuffle (1987) and the aptly - titled comedy vehicle Eddie Murphy: Raw (1987), both for director pal Robert Townsend.

At least, in this shonky, low on budget, high on stupid comedy.

More than anything, Killing Gunther demonstrates that Christopher Guest has a lot to atone for with his pioneering of the mockumentary, which has become the lazy, go - to style for low - budget comedies.

In this low - budget romantic comedy, a self - styled playboy (actually a young grade - school teacher) puts his best moves on a lovely tour guide at a New York museum and soon finds himself hopelessly entangled with the mob.

From low - budget black comedies (Shallow Grave) to box office blockbusters (the Star Wars prequels), lavish musicals (Moulin Rouge!)

Sony low - budget division Screen Gems released his first feature in 2000, «The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy,» which followed the lives of a group of gay friends living in West Hollywood.

The central joke in this low - budget comedy should have been a springboard to something either blackly hilarious or more amusingly complex, but the filmmakers seem to have run out of ideas after coming up with...

That's a lot of mileage from a few low - budget noirs and one comedy, so it's not surprising that this subgenre is beginning to show signs of exhaustion.

With a low budget but a lot of imagination and talent, director Trevorrow and writer Connolly create a deceptively simple comedy that's one of the most entertaining films of the year.

However, Jackson got his start with low budget works, first with the independently made horror comedy «Bad Taste» (1987) and then with the deeply profane Muppets send - up «Meet the Feebles» (1989).

It's been a fantastic year for Joe Cornish, formerly one half of the comedy duo Adam and Joe and now Hollywood screenwriter of The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, not to mention writer - director of Attack the Block, a low - budget sci - fi action comedy about a group of youths fending off an alien attack on a South London council estate.

That distinction belongs to Asylum, an obscure low - budget series that aired in 1996 on a fledging satellite channel that would eventually become the British affiliate of Comedy Central.

A couple of the golfing scenes aren't as sharp as others, but most are immaculate and unexpectedly vibrant for a low - budget comedy of this age.

After working on a few more independent films, including «Reckless» (1984), «Old Enough» (1984) and «Heartbreakers» (1984), he made another important personal and professional connection when Martin Scorsese hired him to shoot a low - budget indie - style film that he was working on as a way of collecting his bearings after a string of increasingly complex and complicated productions, the dark comedy «After Hours» (1985).

The extremely low - budget film features a stellar cast of British talent - Michael Caine, Tom Courtenay, David Hemings, Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, Ray Winstone - and is Schepisi's first real diversion from comedy in a while.

The 2.40:1 anamorphic widescreen video isn't the sharpest or most detailed, but that's a low - budget comedy in standard definition from a small studio for you.

Writer / director Hayden J Weal uses chronesthesia (aka mental time travel — the ability to think into the past and future) as a catalyst for romantic comedy in this low - budget feature.

He's even tried his hand at writing, directing and producing, making Gordon Glass, a low - budget family comedy in which he handled the title role.

But it's the low - budget, no - star «Dope» that really seems to have resonated, with Famuyiwa abandoning the romantic comedy vibe of his previous titles and turning in an energetic, youthful genre - mash - up instead.

Making its world premiere at Fantastic Fest on September 22, The Void marked a departure in style for two members of Astron - 6, Jeremy Gillespie and Steven Kostanski, a group known for lower budget horror comedies.

By ROBERT W. WELKOS When you ask indie producer Luillo Ruiz how his recent low - budget action - comedy film Welcome to the Jungle featuring veteran martial arts star Jean - Claude Van Damme could come with 31 producer credits, his answer is simple and straightforward.

To secure that gig, he first had to star in another car comedy for the steadily - working low - budget producer.

Which isn't too bad for a low - budget (well under $ 1 million) comedy about two straight guys who decide to make a porno... with each other!

Danny Collins is the sort of thing that, 25 or 30 years ago, would've come out every week: a low - budget, low - stakes excuse for good actors to have some fun with a smart director and script (by Dan Fogelman, who wrote the busy, AARP - centric comedy Last Vegas).

The Daily Show «s Jason Jones and Samantha Bee costar in this low - budget comedy, which filters the unique torture of holiday familial bickering through the rubric of a Blair Witch - style collection of captured footage.

It's funny and despite a low budget, they give it their best effort for a funny comedy.

In this low - budget horror - comedy, snowy weather causes a police vehicle carrying a convicted murderer to collide with a tanker containing an acid solution.

For a go - for - broke ribald low budget independent comedy revolving around two transgender prostitutes traipsing around the streets of Los Angeles on Christmas Eve, it's a little surprising just how tender, sensitive and dare I say sweet the heart beating at the center of writer / director Sean Baker's (Starlet) latest Tangerine ends up being.

9) Attack the Block - A low - budget Brit sci - fi comedy that's fresh, goofy, stylish, energetic, briskly paced, and lots of fun.

Since his first cinematic composition, a collaboration with then - newcomer Richard Band on the low - budget science fiction thriller, LASERBLAST (1978), Joel scored a number of feature and television films throughout the 1980s and «90s, including the sci - fi series SUPER FORCE (1990), Roland Emmerich's early sci - fi thriller MOON 44 (1990), and Jim Wynorski's gentle family comedy, LITTLE MISS MILLIONS (1993).

A hardcore punk - rocker turned self - described «filmmaker, absentee father,» Jeremy Saulnier emerged on the independent film scene in 2007 with Murder Party, a low - budget horror - comedy infusion that flew under the radar.

The coming weekend sees another balanced offering, with high - concept, low - budget horror The Devil Inside (a US box - office smash, on opening weekend at least), action comedy 21 Jump Street, heist thriller Contraband and family drama We Bought a Zoo.

That said, though, if critics aren't clamoring for comedies like The Big Sick or low - budget fare like The Florida Project, then The Shape of Water's nominations sweep might indicate precisely where their collective decisions will ultimately lean.

Bana performs predominantly in leading roles in a variety of low - budget and major studio films, ranging from romantic comedies and drama to science fiction and action thrillers.

Structurally, it could be compared to Kurosawa's Rashomon for its subjective cross-examination of Nola's loves; but this delightful low - budget comedy, with its all black cast and black humour, is 100 per cent Lee.

A low - budget comedy defeating a much - hyped historical drama by Steven Spielberg?

Spaced is a low - budget seven episode run of comedy that never compromises on the laughs.

The film's financial loss was profound; in career terms it scaled the writer - director right back down to where he was before, directing lower - budget studio actioners and comedies for the rest of the»80s.

That's how you feel, more or less, by the climax of Final Exam, a low - budget Halloween knock - off crossed with a dopey frat - boy comedy.

Pipe Dream is one of these movies, and not only is it a romantic comedy, but it is a low budget indie movie, and it wears both names proudly.