Sentences with phrase «musical comedy about»

It was a monologue (delivered in a rotary telephone costume I designed) exploring a symmetrical rift between high and low culture, inspired in part by a musical comedy about a working class bell hop who exposes a pretentious composer (who stole his girlfriend) as a fraud by revealing that his critically acclaimed avant - garde divertimento is really just a hit - parade song played backwards.

Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, and Elizabeth Banks star in this musical comedy about an a cappella group trying to «pitch slap» the competition.

Rebel Wilson, Anna Kendrick, and Adam DeVine headline this musical comedy about competing campus a capella groups, in theaters this fall.

Unfortunately, their musical comedy about WWII, titled «Springtime For Hitler,» becomes a huge surprise hit, which is the worst thing that could happen to them.

Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, and Brittany Snow star in this musical comedy about college students who form a singing group.

Rock the Kasbah (R for profanity, drug use, sexual references and brief violence) Musical comedy about a broke rock producer (Bill Murray) who helps an Afghani teenager (Leem Lubany) compete on her country's reality - TV version of American Idol after he finds himself stranded in Kabul.

Trust Goth godhead Tim Burton and animator Henry Selick to concoct the perfect dose of alt - holiday fun in this musical comedy about the king of Halloween taking over yuletide festivities — with ghoulishly giddy results.

Gandolfini is front and center as Nick Murder in John Turturro's ensemble musical comedy about the choices made within the downward spiral of infidelity.

Bridges did intense research at the Victoria and Albert Museum (he discovered that»50s London glorified woolen suits), watched movies such as «Maytime in Mayfair,» a 1949 British musical comedy about Mayfair's haute couture ladies» fashions, and went clothes shopping with Day - Lewis.

Elizabeth Banks makes her impressive feature directorial debut in «Pitch Perfect 2» as well as produces and reprises her role as an A Capella judge in the sequel to 2012's hit musical comedy about the Barden Bellas, the first all - female group to win a national title.

Elizabeth Banks makes her impressive feature directorial debut in «Pitch Perfect 2» as well as produces and reprises her role as an A Capella judge in the sequel to 2012's hit musical comedy about the Barden Bellas, the f...

Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Seth MacFarlane, Scarlett Johansson, John C. Reilly, Taron Egerton and Tori Kelly star in a musical comedy about finding the shining star that lives inside all of us.

Lebanese writer - director Nadine Labaki keeps the details general in her sharp black musical comedy about women trying to keep the peace in an isolated village populated by equal numbers of Muslims and Christians.

Anne Brodie: Sing Street is an uplifting musical comedy about an Irish boy seeking rock and roll stardom 30 years ago.

to create the musical comedy about online dating in post-menopausal widowhood..

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Amazon's «Transparent», a comedy - drama series about a transgender father, won the award for the Best TV Series — Musical or Comedy, the first time the e-commerce giant's in - house studio had competed and won against the big guns of Hollywood since its creation incomedy - drama series about a transgender father, won the award for the Best TV Series — Musical or Comedy, the first time the e-commerce giant's in - house studio had competed and won against the big guns of Hollywood since its creation inComedy, the first time the e-commerce giant's in - house studio had competed and won against the big guns of Hollywood since its creation in 2010.

He has built a stereo control room (about 5 by 5 feet) off his den, and in it he keeps his records (mostly musical - comedy albums), turntable, tape recorder and amplifiers.

HOLLYWOOD, July 22 — Florenz Ziegfeld, musical comedy Sometime after the death of your spouse, you will think about dating, especially if you liked being married.

Greta Gerwig who wrote and directed «Lady Bird,» which won Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, noted that «it's been such an incredible year for women in film both as actors and also writers and directors and producers and people who are really coming to the forefront to tell their stories about the world as they know it from where they are standing, and I think that the response to these projects and the support that these projects have gotten and the way that audiences are going to see them or watching them in their homes, I think all of this just makes it so much easier for the next crop of filmmakers who want to tell stories about women.»

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A comedy about a group of inmates who stage a musical to cover up their escape, it was treated with eager expectation by fans of the Cattaneo's previous work.

Sound of Noise (R for profanity and brief nudity) Swedish crime comedy about a tone deaf cop's (Bengt Nilsson) attempt to track down the gang of musical anarchists which has been terrorizing Malmo by staging impromptu percussion concerts all over the city.

The allegations arrive just days after Franco picked up the Golden Globe for best actor in a musical or comedy for The Disaster Artist — amid social - media chatter devoted to a swirl of rumors about his allegedly inappropriate behavior, including three tweets from Ally Sheedy.

A well - crafted musical, an imaginative macabre fantasy, and a subtle, well - observed comedy (though I did wish that a maggot (Enn Reitel) with Peter Lorre's voice whistled «In the Hall of the Mountain King,» just once), Corpse Bride is about love and loyalty — the importance of vows and the eternity of words.

If the choreographed sex scenes break into the pedestrian plot and dialogue of Body of Evidence like numbers in a musical comedy, that's because they appear to be the only scenes the filmmakers really care about; otherwise the characters and story can go straight to hell, one feels, as they eventually do.

Pitch Perfect 3 (Universal Home Entertainment) is the third installment in the musical - comedy franchise about the Bellas, a female a cappella group.

The actress talks about her continuing adventures in musical comedy and Hollywood at large.

Basmati Blues: Musical romantic comedy about a sheltered but brilliant young scientist who is sent on a work trip to India.

Accepting the award for Best Actress in a Television Series: Musical or Comedy, star Rachel Brosnahan expressed gratitude for getting to anchor a series about, as Brosnahan put it, «a bold, and beautiful, and complicated woman.»

The actress threw a #MeToo tag on a comment about Franco and Christian Slater, then after Franco won for best actor in a musical or comedy, she tweeted: «Please never ask me why I left the film / tv business.»

Accepting the award for Best Actor in a Television Series: Musical or Comedy, Master of None creator and star Aziz Ansari riffed about his surprise: «I genuinely didn't think I would win because all the websites said I was gonna lose.»

Director Terry Zwigoff shares his own musical taste in this article about how he went about selecting songs to underscore the deadpan tone of his cult comedy Ghost World.

I spoke with Rodriguez by phone earlier this week about the new additions to the group and his role in the remake of the comedy Overboard The season premiere also features full frontal Todd and a musical homage to the recently departed.

The last two seasons of this fun series have been amusing tongue - in - cheek comedies about an obsessive girl's quest to win over her supposed true love, her misguided methods and destructive personality traits being lightened through the use of gags, story - telling and the odd musical number.

«I wouldn't actually call it a «musical comedy» — there are movies within the movie, and those movies might have comedic music, but the movie we're making is actually not comical,» composer Carter Burwell said earlier this year about the film.

The runners - up prize goes to Hugh Grant, wrongly leaked as the winner of best actor (comedy or musical), who describes the plot of Florence Foster Jenkins as, accurately enough, about «a woman slowly dying of syphilis».

Acclaimed Irish director Lenny Abrahamson follows up his award - winning films Adam & Paul, Garage and What Richard Did with an offbeat comedy about a young wannabe musician, Jon, played by Gleeson, who finds himself out of his depth when he joins an avant - garde pop band led by the mysterious and enigmatic Frank, (Michael Fassbender) a musical genius who hides himself inside a large fake head, and his terrifying bandmate Clara, played by Maggie Gyllenhaal.

Manohla Dargis, for instance, tweeted «what's so funny about a husband beating up his wife,» in reference to the film being placed in the Musical / Comedy category.

Other notable films that will screen at TIFF include Tom Ford «s «Nocturnal Animals,» with Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams; «Whiplash» director Damien Chazelle «s musical «La La Land,» with Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone; Peter Berg «s «Deepwater Horizon,» a true - life drama about the oil spill, starring Mark Wahlberg and Kurt Russell; Werner Herzog «s «Salt and Fire,» a drama in which Michael Shannon and Gael Garcia Bernal face ecological disaster in South America; Ewan McGregor «s Philip Roth adaptation «American Pastoral,» the actor's directorial debut; Denis Villeneuve «s sci - fi drama «Arrival,» formerly titled «Story of Your Life,» with Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner; Juan Antonio Bayona «s «A Monster Calls»; «Denial,» Mick Jackson's drama starring Rachel Weisz as a historian sued by a Holocaust denier; Irish director Jim Sheridan «s «The Secret Scripture,» with Vanessa Redgrave and Rooney Mara playing two different ages of a woman who keeps a diary of her time in a mental hospital; and «Mascots,» Christopher Guest «s comedy about the world of sports mascots.

MA15 + USA, 2001 Genre: Music, Comedy, Musical Language: [language] Director: John Cameron Starring: John Cameron Mitchell, Theodore Liscinski What's it about?

Thats the weird thing about the Globes, because they split to Drama / Musical and Comedy more people and films get nominated.

For fans of the 1994 critical darling about two Aussie women who awkwardly search for love and happiness, a musical based on comedy - drama has been a long time coming.

After collecting trophies for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series and Best Television Series (both in the Musical or Comedy categories), the triple threat was met with questions from the press about his other major project — playing young Lando Calrissian in the upcoming Han Solo Star Wars anthology film.

Mrs. Doubtfire's competition for Best Motion Picture Musical or Comedy were Dave, Much Ado About Nothing, Sleepless in Seattle and Strictly Ballroom.

This fast - paced comedy about finding the good in everyone features a distinctive musical beat with lyrics and music by the world famous Grammy ® Award - winning singer / songwriter, Sting.

Zoe Lister Jones's comedy BAND AID, stars Lister and Adam Pally as a married couple that attempt to work through their marital issues and strife by pulling out some old musical instruments and making up songs about the subject of their arguments.

Bruno Dumont, who has had his fair share of titles delegated to the sidelines despite winning multiple awards at the festival, was in competition last year with cannibal comedy Slack Bay, and returns this year with a musical about Joan of Arc, Jeannette.

After Frano won the Golden Globe for best actor in a musical or comedy for his role in The Disaster Artist, actress Ally Sheedy started to tweet about Franco.

Skylar Astin will also meet with Universal Pictures about reprising his roles in this possible sequel to the hit musical comedy.

Now, when a serious actor like Robert DeNiro is one of the most reliable dumb - comedy draws in Hollywood, Beatty and Hoffman wouldn't be pilloried for starring in a silly musical about two hilariously bad singer - songwriters.