Sentences with phrase «most modern comedies»

There are the expected scenes of actors riffing all over each that populate most modern comedies, but also hints at a bigger budget and attention to aesthetics like nifty camera work, tilt - shift photography, and some decent action set pieces.

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Most crucially, Segura got an original - comedy - special deal with Netflix, which is the modern - day equivalent of being asked to sit on Johnny Carson's couch after your set — a guaranteed career maker.
Even by modern day standards in which slapstick comedies aren't vogue, Chaplin manages to sell the most inane gags.
Followers of Alan Rudolph's career will rejoice at his latest effort, Afterglow, an incredibly and incurably romantic comedy - drama that most perceptively dissects the delicate imbalances of two very modern but very different marriages.
It was a remake of one of the most critically acclaimed modern comedies.
«Modern Family» continued its run as television's most honored comedy at the Emmys, winning the best comedy award for the third year in a row, while the terrorism thriller «Homeland» won critical praise and the best drama Emmy.
Another family - friendly fairy tale comedy adapted from a popular modern novel, this 2004 movie was perhaps the most Disney-esque one ever released by their Miramax Films division.
It's currently more of a museum and gift shop than a real church; most folks prefer the dazzling, modern Abundant Life, overseen by Joel Jeffers (Cedric the Entertainer, credited here under his real name, Cedric Kyles, so as not to imply that this is a comedy).
Taking the 1983 Vacation and thrusting it into the modern age of high - octane raunch comedy, Vacation (2015) is pretty much the result most would expect: Still filled with laughs, but ultimately a cheaper and more hollow echo of the original film, despite some inspired comedic performances from the cast.
Unlike most other modern sex comedies, this one plays more toward older couples than it does to young men, which makes it a bit of a rare breed in this era of crass and sophomoric gags.
HBO has released a trailer for the fifth season of its Emmy award - winning comedy series Silicon Valley, along with a first look image featuring Zach Woods, Kumail Nanjiani, Martin Starr, and Thomas Middleditch; take a look here... In the high - tech gold rush of modern Silicon Valley, the people most qualified to succeed are the least capable -LSB-...]
It may sound ridiculous to call a movie called «Hot Tub Time Machine» cerebral, but there are subtleties in the character development that most modern - day R - rated comedies can not be bothered with.
They love their repeat winners and last night's 5th consecutive win in Comedy Series for Modern Family, for a year that most regarded the show as waning in quality and viewership, proves that.
Before I begin my review, I would like to point out that even though I am not a fan of most modern horror films, I do love the horror comedy genre and horror films from the 70s and 80s.
Debased, infantile and reckless in the extreme, this compendium of body bravado and malfunction makes for some of the most fearless, liberated and cathartic comedy in modern movies...
Debased, infantile and reckless in the extreme, this compendium of body bravado and malfunction makes for some of the most fearless, liberated and cathartic comedy in modern movies... Full Review
One of the film's most memorable aspects — and arguably the facet which helped to entrench itself within the annuls of modern comedy greats — is the work undertaken by the Max Fischer Players: Broadway - sized high school theatre reinterpretations of classic movies.
«There's no one better to comment on our modern America than Roseanne,» ABC continued, confirming that «the most culturally relevant comedy» will return to ABC in 2018 with all the original cast members — including Sara Gilbert (Darlene), who was missing from Tuesday's festivities as she co-hosted The Talk in Los Angeles.
It used to actually mean something to see the Oscar - nominated names of Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel as the screenwriters of a comedy, writers of such modern - day classic comedies as A League of Their Own, Parenthood, City Slickers, Night Shift, and Splash, but most of those films were in their past, and they have turned in mostly mediocre material since 1992.
A film comedy directed with the grace of a ballet, the painstaking detail of an action painting and the affection of a love song, Playtime is one of the most sublime celebrations of individualism in the alienated landscape of modern urban life and consumer culture.
A comedy this nuanced holds more surprises with repeat viewings than most modern rom - coms ever do the first time through.
A good modern - day litmus test may be the comedy of Larry David, «Curb Your Enthusiasm» more than «Seinfeld», although a distinctly Jewish New York sense of humor runs through all three, with Allen and David having repeatedly crossed paths, most extensively in 2009's enjoyable Whatever Works.
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