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In most areas of life, comedy is harder to pull off than drama.
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The service is also getting ready to debut multiple original shows developed specifically for CBS All Access, including a spin - off of the hit drama The Good Wife and the first new Star Trek series in more than a decade, called Star Trek: Discovery, which is expected to premiere in 2017.
As the trials of Skelos and Silver play out over the coming months, the greater drama will be just off in the wings: a clash between a wily, aggressive governor and a prosecutor who may be wilier and more aggressive than he is.
In 2002, the hit procedural prime - time crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation was launching a spin - off, CSI: Miami, and in the starring role of Lieutenant Horatio Caine was none other than David Caruso.
Who would have ever thought there'd be more Fast and Furious drama off screen than in all of the franchise's movies combined?
Meanwhile, no one image helped to sell the indie family drama Krisha better than its title character staring off into the middle distance, cigarette between her fingers, contemplating how she's going to survive the however - many minutes she has left with her family.
Indie - film fans are probably more familiar with Reed Morano than they realize: She's the cinematographer behind the camera on the heartbreaking Melissa Leo drama Frozen River, the Ginsberg / Kerouac meet - cute film Kill Your Darlings, and the Kristen Wiig / Bill Hader angst - off The Skeleton Twins, among many other projects.
Film - geek auteur projects, psychotronic fanboy - friendly blockbusters, over-the-top midnight movies, under - the - radar indie dramas and more music documentaries than you can shake a D.A. Pennebraker - approved stick at — the annual SXSW Film Festival (kicking off on March 10th) has always specialized in a sort of eclectic, lo - fi - meets - high - art - for - a-Shiner-Bock vibe when it comes to their programming.
All the Money in the World (DVD + digital) Details: 2017, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Rated: R, violence, language, disturbing images, drugs The lowdown: It's a shame that this movie will be remembered more for its off - screen drama than the story it tells.
The film is far more earthy than a typical costume drama, which will either please or put off viewers depending on their inclinations.
This British hip - hop drama has an intriguing premise, but it never seems to be more than a knock - off of the Step Up movies.
Rupert Everett's directorial debut The Happy Prince follows in the footsteps of no less than three attempts to catalogue the life of literary legend Oscar Wilde, and does so with the panache that one might assume necessary for fictionalising his life, but there's a curious gaudy slant to proceedings which sees it not far off BBC prime time drama territory.
There's no better example of how the series maintains balance than in Metal Gear Solid 3, whose most off - beat scene is as cathartic a moment as found in any emotional drama — even 14 years after its original November 2004 release.
WHY: Derek Cianfrance's multi-generational crime drama is an incredibly ambitious piece of work, though he seems to have bitten off more than he can chew.
Best - case scenario: No one pulls off the «troubled asshole» archetype better than Bradley Cooper, and the setting in the world of high - end dining could offer plenty of drama and great food porn.
The drama of a human colony struggling to survive on a far - off planet that is more hostile than it appears unfortunately ends after a mere eight episodes, its cliffhanger ending never to be resolved as the show was not picked up, but it is still worth a look.
It's been more than a hot minute since we last visited the debauched guests and android hosts of Westworld, but with the HBO drama returning on Sunday, we're brushing up on everything that went down before Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) offed Ford (Antho... Read more
Director Jonathan Levine's 50/50 is one of those rare movies that pulls off a feat of narrative tightrope walking, in this case a comedy - drama about a young man with cancer that manages to be thought - provoking and insightful without being melodramatic, and funny and irreverent rather than woefully inappropriate or safe.
It's clear right from the outset that Big Miracle has no greater goal than to come off as an unabashed (and distinctly old - fashioned) feel - good drama, as filmmaker Ken Kwapis, working from a script by Jack Amiel and Michael Begler, has infused the movie with a briskly - paced, pervasively likeable feel that generally does prove impossible to resist.
By Bob Bloom The following titles are being released on Tuesday, April 10, unless otherwise noted: All the Money in the World (DVD + digital) Details: 2017, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Rated: R, violence, language, disturbing images, drugs The lowdown: It's a shame that this movie will be remembered more for its off - screen drama than -LSB-...]
Gillespie is wise enough to recognize that and simply make a film about the work of pulling off such a rescue, rather than try and ratchet up the drama.
A tapestral suspense drama about the intertwined romantic fates of a quartet of Baton Rouge residents — each wounded in their own way, and some more freshly than others — The Ledge exhibits a willingness and desire to let its characters bat back and forth opposing philosophies of life and faith more frequently found on display in literature or off - Broadway theater.
Even though the official kick off to the Pan Am Games was today, in the week leading up to it markets have given traders more than enough diving, hurdles and nail - biting drama for weeks to come.
While the tone of the Ratchet and Clank games has always been pretty lighthearted and witty, I can't stress enough how pulling off truly clever and well timed humor like this game does is light years harder than writing Oscar bait war dramas like Mass Effect.