Sentences with phrase «of apocalyptic comedy»
Touches of apocalyptic comedy run throughout Nightcrawler, but the movie's overriding tone is one of strident, finger - wagging self - seriousness.
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Leave it to the truly soulless medium of television to bring the zombie archetype full circle with CBS's Babylon Fields, an hour - long series the network describes as a «sardonic, apocalyptic American comedy - drama where the dead are rising and as a result, lives are regained, families restored, and old wounds reopened.»
An apocalyptic sex comedy featuring witches, government conspiracies, queer sex of every sort, and a bunch of unfamiliar faces, Kaboom!
Some of that credit belongs to director David Mackenzie, a Scottish jack of all genres whose been going his own way for years now, dabbling in everything from apocalyptic melodrama (Perfect Sense) to gritty prison drama (Starred Up) to Ashton Kutcher sex comedy (Spread).
So as to not let all the footage of their upcoming apocalyptic comedy This is the End go to waste, the boys starring in it (and Sony Pictures) have dropped a red - band trailer for it before the expected end of the world.
Danny Boyle is one of the more underrated mainstream directors working today; he's been able to spin films as different as pitch - black comedy (Trainspotting) to apocalyptic zombie thriller (28 Days Later) with genuinely good results (let us not speak of The Beach).
In a year that has consistently felt like an apocalyptic black comedy, albeit one that is no laughing matter, the greatest films have served as an anchor of sanity.
This is the End is a hysterical comedy of apocalyptic proportions on an epic scale!
I thought of these childhood visions of eternal damnation while watching Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's apocalyptic horror - comedy «This Is The End.»
Unlike last year's star - studded apocalyptic comedy «This is The End», Rogen is not one of the writers or directors of «Neighbors».
In coming weeks, the two theatres will present John Ford's atmospheric Eugene O'Neill adaptation The Long Voyage Home, with cinematography by Gregg Toland and Swedish accent by John Wayne, Anthony Mann's apocalyptic Korean War drama Men in War, J.L. Anderson's Spring Night, Summer Night, Adolphe Menjou in the fast - paced pre-Code comedy Bachelor's Affairs and Erich von Stroheim in The Crime of Dr. Crespi.
Though I greeted the debut of Phil Lord and Christopher Miller's apocalyptic comedy with effusive praise, in particular for its ingenious pilot episode and the hilarious Kristen Schaal, I soon learned the hard way to avoid writing too soon in a series» run.
The new movie, which held its premiere here Tuesday night ahead of its Paramount release this weekend, is alternatively an abduction thriller, monster flick, science - fiction reverie, character comedy, horror pinprick, apocalyptic drama, duct - tape - and - chewing - gum chamber piece and alien - invasion movie.
Is this going to be the comedy of the year or will it be overshadowed by another apocalyptic comedy that came out earlier this year... This is the End?