Sentences with phrase «movie comedy team»

Laurel and Hardy, probably the most successful movie comedy team of all time, made the transition from silent to sound quite effortlessly, as their personas»; so recognizable as the bullying and boorish Oliver Hardy, and his sweet man - child partner, Stan Laurel, had voices and speech that mirrored their skills at mime perfectly.

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For his latest movie, «Dog Eat Dog,» which opens in theaters November 4 and is on video on demand on November 11, Schrader teamed with Nicolas Cage and Willem Dafoe to create a bizarre, ultraviolent dark comedy — extremely dark and extremely violent — that is perhaps the boldest work Schrader has ever done.

The actress / singer dropped off the movie scene for several years in order to pursue her musical career and other ventures, then came back with a bang for a supporting role in Whip It, a comedy drama following an ex-pageant queen's experiences on a roller derby team.

Scary Movie 5 is directed by Malcolm Lee who teamed up and worked side by side with comedy director David Zucker.

The team had a clear idea how to exploit the black comedy of the film without disregarding its depiction of serious abuse, which had made the movie a hot potato.

Book Club isn't just a romantic comedy but a film that manages to team up four of the greatest female actors of their time in the same movie.

When Aki Kaurismaki, Finland's deadpan farceur of minimalist slapstick, absurdist comedy and bruised romanticism, teamed up with the aggressively eccentric rock and roll cover band Leningrad Cowboys, a mix of bar band performance, punk attitude and polka flourishes, to make the surreal rock and roll road movie Leningrad Cowboys Go America, who knew it would be the beginning of a surreal collaborative friendship?

As a followup to 3 new movie clips, Paramount just released the latest TV spot from the upcoming comedy «Jackass 3 - D» stars the original team including Johnny Knoxville, Steve - O, Bam Margera and Preston Lacy.

WHY: Adam Sandler hasn't made that many good movies in his 20 - year career, but the ones co-starring Drew Barrymore are some of his best, so it only seemed natural that the duo team up again for a third romantic comedy.

Following this movie clip and some painful stills, MTV got their hands on the latest juvenile movie clip from the upcoming comedy «Jackass 3 - D» stars the original team including Johnny Knoxville, Steve - O, Bam Margera and Preston Lacy.

If that's the case here, I hope there's something the marketing team is holding back that will make this movie worth seeing, because I do think these actors have earned the chance to be front and center in more comedies in the future.

Film Review by Kam Williams Jackie Chan Teams with Johnny Knoxville for Familiar Unlikely - Buddies Flick Jackie Chan made dozens of martial arts movies in his native Hong Kong prior to finding phenomenal success stateside in 1998 co-starring with Chris Tucker in the buddy - comedy Rush Hour.

It looks like The Greatest American Hero is heading back to TV screens, with Deadline revealing that The LEGO Movie directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller are teaming with Dope helmer Rick Famuyiwa for a single - camera comedy remake of the cult 1980s TV series for 20th Century Fox TV.

Back in the long ago days of 2012, the idea of Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum teaming up for a buddy cop comedy adaptation of the»80s television series 21 Jump Street seemed like an absurd idea destined for failure, and the movie right away poked fun at the lack of originality in its concept along with the industry trend at large of adapting old series.

Even in the event of bad buzz, there was no way I was going to miss out on the premiere of a new movie from Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig, the co-writing team whose previous collaboration was one of the most effervescent comedies of the last decade.

Even when the movie starts to drag in the middle, however, there's rarely a dull moment thanks to the chemistry of its two leads, by far one of the strangest comedy pairings ever formed, and yet the very reason why they make such a great team.

His other books include «The Dream Team - The Rise and Fall of DreamWorks: Lessons from the New Hollywood» (2006), «I'll Have What She's Having: Behind the Scenes of the Great Romantic Comedies» (2008) and «Jar Jar Binks Must Die... and other observations about science fiction movies» (2011).

But Team Frémaux obviously doesn't know either director's A material from their B material — To's phoned - in comedy thriller Blind Detective got a midnight slot, but it's not my idea of a midnight movie.

Book Club isn't just a romantic comedy but a film that manages to team up four of the greatest female actors of their time in the same...... Read more «New from Solzy at the Movies by Danielle Solzman: Book Club: The Avengers of Their Generation»

Had the writing - directing team of Jon Lucas and Scott Moore done these interviews beforehand (and really listened and understood what these women were saying) the movie had the potential for being about something real, rooting even absurd comedy in something recognizable.

As usual, the movies the CIFF team has compiled together are some of the best that Hollywood has to offer, including the Guillermo del Toro fantasy and award winning film - The Shape of Water, Dee Rees» Sundance favorite Mudbound, and Martin McDonagh's dark comedy Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

How exquisitely ironic that a would - be Enfant terrible who whines and complains about a more successful filmmaker's female character being improbably, impossibly, glibly perfect and hyper - competent in every way would write, in his universally reviled new Netflix original movie Bright, a sloppy inter-species buddy comedy team where both halves «unexpectedly» turn out to be magical figures of destiny.

Now, just three months after teaming up the movie with Dangerfield's 1983 comedy Easy Money as a 2 - DVD Double Feature, MGM and distributor Fox treat School alone to an Extra-Curricular Edition DVD upgrade.

Take two dudes from the writing team of the «Scary Movie» franchise (successful films that have at least generated some genuine laughs spoofing horror movies) and have them write and direct a spoof on romantic comedy films.

When the popularity of horror movies began to run its course, Universal got more mileage out of the material by featuring the famous comedy team Bud Abbott and Lou Costello against the monsters, first in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), then in Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951), and finally in Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955).

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B - Movie Bingo presents Rambu: The Intruder With comedy team Wolf Choir.

Devised by acting - writing comedy team Lowe and Oram and co-scripted by Amy Jump, director Ben Wheatley's professional and personal partner, the movie pokes fun at the social limitations of these lumpen Midlanders without sneering at or patronizing them.

The human comedy factory Judd Apatow and the moody, dreamy art - house director David Gordon Green (George Washington, Snow Angels) make an unlikely team, but here they are, and the result may well be the funniest movie of the year.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening February 20, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Fired Up (PG - 13 for profanity, sexuality, partying, partial nudity and pervasive crude humor) Teen comedy about a couple of high school's football stars (Eric Christian Olsen and Nicholas D'Agosto) who hatch a plan to spend the summer at a camp filled with gorgeous girls by quitting the team to try out for the cheerleading squad instead.