Sentences with phrase «mainstream comedy»

He found his comfort zone in mainstream comedies, of which I have liked nine of 12.

These movies are made for audiences, not film critics, which is why so few mainstream comedies play the film festival circuit.

I had a great time with this flick because it was so much better, and actually full of jokes, than most mainstream comedies I've seen at all this year so far.

It was unusually funny for a recent mainstream comedy and it's got tons of replay value.

It's not an ideology you'd expect to see spun into mainstream comedy in 2013.

Why are so few mainstream comedies these days actually funny?

Sitting through Rough Night your mind may wander, as did mine, to the state of mainstream comedy in the cinema these days...

,» «Easy A,» and «Friends With Benefits») he transformed the company's Screen Gems shingle from a cheap huckster of common genre flicks (the «Underworld» movies, «Takers,» «Priest,» «Burlesque») into the premiere haven for somewhat - intelligent inexpensive mainstream comedy features (and, yes, also, common genre flicks).

This plays much more like a broad mainstream comedy with supporting actors like Kevin Hart and Alan Arkin knocking out a few jokes throughout.

You can always rely on mainstream comedy from writer / director Nancy Meyers («It's Complicated,» «Something's Got ta Give,» «What Women Want,» «The Holiday»).

«The Big Leap: Adam McKay» (11:31) details how the director / co-writer came to this from mainstream comedies and how he brought passion and strong ideas for making the dense, complex material accessible.

With the exception of Spy, 2015 was a bang average year for mainstream comedies.

It's not about sex — it's about Barbra and Bette and the Village People: That's the lesson of this cheerful, mainstream comedy about tabloid TV, Hollywood sophistry and family values that finally gets discussion about gay people out of the bedroom and into the record store, where it belongs.

But Spy never lets its genre conceit get in the way of its comedy, which delivers more laugh - out - loud moments than any other mainstream comedy so far this year.

My second favorite day overall, day seven brought some more of my favorites of the festival, including a very mainstream comedy that I think has the makings of a big hit and can see having a long afterlife on video and cable, the Bruce Willis vehicle «Red.»

But «Wedding Crashers» — in which Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn play not - quite - grown - ups who dive - bomb their way into weddings to which they haven't been invited, chiefly to pick up women — is that rare contemporary mainstream comedy that seems to have been made without parental supervision.

He dropped out of film school in the early»90s to make a documentary about the notorious punk rocker GG Allin, and by the end of the decade he was making his first mainstream comedy, the American Pie - lite college romp, Road Trip.

While «SNL» alum Sudeikis has prominently starred in hit mainstream comedies Horrible Bosses and We're the Millers,

by Ian Pugh The twain where mainstream comedy conventions and a certain vogue - ish indie aesthetic meet, Paper Heart is desperate to be seen as an earnest exploration of love but done in by an almost suffocating desire to please.

The First Wives Club was a major success story for so many reasons: an original mainstream comedy, a movie about women over 50, a movie that recognized the comedic potential of actresses like Diane Keaton, Bette Midler, and Goldie Hawn... with every year that goes by, the movie seems more and more like a miracle.

In the 1990s, the Farrelly Brothers used to be the kings of mainstream comedy movies.

With «DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story» and «We're the Millers» to his credit, Rawson Marshall Thurber has been a very successful mainstream comedy director.

The film is content hanging out in the middle as a no - apologies mainstream comedy, and has no aspiration for comedic greatness, or social commentary on the differing ideas of friendship between men and women.

Rolling the dice on modern mainstream comedies is a tournament of chance these days.

Game Night is a morbid, deranged take on growing up and finding our weekly spark, if not an absolutely insane riff off Clue meets Keanu (in some weird mainstream comedy universe).

Curiously moving, remarkably funny and refreshing, while featuring a wonderfully oddball tone that's minor key and sublime, «Prince Avalanche» is a major comeback for filmmaker David Gordon Green, who's eclectic career has traversed poetic indies («George Washington») and left - of - center mainstream comedies («The Sitter,» «Pineapple Express»).

The caustic comedic filmmaker's work can feel a bit nasty when held up against the tripe that often qualifies as mainstream comedy.

There hasn't been much competition so far nor, I would guess, will there be so calling «Bridesmaids» the great American mainstream comedy of the year may not sound like much.

There is no sense of mainstream comedy coming from Nature Calls.

Thankfully, the cast, a who's who of the uber - talented from SNL's Kate McKinnon and Vanessa Bayer, to T.J. Miller and mainstream comedy cohort Jason Bateman, all understand where and how comedy succeeds.

-- Jeffu Warmouth, Three Heads are Better Than One — Humor and the Abject Presents: Mainstream Comedy Featuring Lorelei Ramirez, Amy Zimmer, and Ruby McCollister Hosted by Sean J Patrick Carney — Eugenia Pigassiou, Body of Work in Regress — Becca Kauffman — Jaimie Warren

Its influence on mainstream comedy is clear to see, though usually it's punky young guys — think Jonah Hill or Michael Cera — with the verbal diarrhea.

What separates Strangers with Candy from other high school comedies, or from most mainstream comedies in general, is the cast's total dedication to their parts.

The film is about the same kind of social overcompensation that virtually any other mainstream comedy is about, but it feels comfortable with this, not desperate to pile on the raunchy bells and whistles in an effort to feel more current.

The movie also has a beautiful theme at the heart of it and it's one of those few mainstream comedies that I like because of its themes and not because of its over-the-top humor.

And Apatow, as the reigning master of mainstream comedy, succeeds in softening all of Schumer's edges.

WHY: Writer / director Mike Birbiglia excels at telling human stories that combine humor and pathos with an unfiltered authenticity you don't normally see in mainstream comedies.

In 2017, I wrote what felt like many words about the fall of the mainstream comedy, from the workshopped - into - anonymity flops (Rough Night) to the dead - on - arrival studio unloadings (The House).

There's a few surprising cameos, as one would expect from today's mainstream comedies, but these, too, come across more as organic character building than lazy stunt casting.

Paul Feig's film has gambled on women, assuming that female moviegoers are sick of being reduced to man - starved, materialistic shopaholics by Hollywood, and want to see a mainstream comedy which gives them a chance to live and breathe as honest to god, funny, interesting people with their own point of view.

Apart from offbeat collaborations with Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach, Stiller has strictly been a mainstream comedy guy since becoming a household name around the turn of the century.

He's hoping another script he co-wrote, a mainstream comedy called «Prison Love,» will star his brother Owen and get moving in the fall.

Here, we get a mainstream comedy featuring a trio of teenage girls who speak frankly and, often, raunchily about sex.

This week's home video releases are anchored by a Cold War drama starring Ed Harris and a mainstream comedy featuring Steve Carell, Steve Buscemi and Jim Carrey.

The afockerlyptically awful sequels — with De Niro was producing — were a no - brainer, their global box office numbers cementing the actor's position as a bankable player in mainstream comedy.

There's been some buzz mounting for Sicario and the trend to nominate a mainstream comedy that started with The 40 - Year - Old Virgin a few years ago makes Trainwreck a good possibility, but I thing the top five are pretty bullet - proof right now.

Director Alethea Jones and writer Julie Rudd have some formal finessing to do, but could prove a valuable team in a mainstream comedy landscape still short on loud, proud female voices.

Table 19 is an indie - fashioned film with a mainstream comedy's bad judgment.