Sentences with phrase «old screwball»
It's a throwback to old screwball comedies where anything could happen without having to make sense, and it relies on that zaniness to drive laughs rather than pairing it with rapid - fire jokes like an Airplane!
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Staffers in payroll offices, benefits departments, and computer services departments labored to develop new job codes, some of which violated longstanding UC procedures; to extensively revise software, some of it decades old; to establish a single enrollment and accounting setup despite very different local circumstances; and to find answers to some screwball questions.
The good news is that some parts of this shopping list are checked off with style and grace: Tony and Pepper are still, at heart, the leads in a screwball comedy — and Downey and Paltrow are top form here; the new villain has the comics» Crimson Dynamo's name — Ivan Vanko [Mickey Rourke]-- but instead of wearing the hopelessly out of date crimson armor, wields a pair of plasma whips that can slice and dice even Stark's fancy suit; and finally, there's Justin Hammer [Sam Rockwell — who was a finalist in casting Stark], a hi - tech weapons manufacturer who got Stark's old Department of Defence contracts even though he's not nearly as talented.
The second of 2015's collaborations with her real - life director boyfriend Noah Baumbach, Mistress America was one of the best films at the Sundance Film Festival, an old - school screwball comedy about a young woman who befriends her dad's new girlfriend.
JUMP TOMORROW (Grade: B): This story of a shy, buttoned - down, Nigerian - born man who falls for an impulsive young Spanish woman is an old - fashioned screwball road - trip romance with a modern flair and a funky lounge score.
There's no attempt at drama here, just good, old - fashioned screwball comedy abounding with double - entendres and sight gags and anchored by two charmingly presentational and presentationally charming lead performances.
This capriciously offbeat sophomore offering from director Rian Johnson starts off in the tradition of good old - fashioned Hollywood screwball comedies.
Jonathan Demme's brilliantly unpredictable comedy starts out as old - school screwball with an emphasis on the screw, as street - smart Melanie Griffith sweeps straight - laced Jeff Daniels off to a motel for a night of passion.
Laurie Boeder is a lifelong movie fan and professional writer who especially loves the fabulous Hollywood films of the»40s,»50s and»60s, and has a soft spot for screwball comedies, cheesy old sci - fi, and old - fashioned patriotic potboilers.
Sharp, fast and witty, it's old school screwball comedy with a cool modern twist.
Baumbach and Gerwig go back to the roots of the old - school screwball comedies of the 1930s - 1950s with its jokes.
Beyond the ickiness of the relationship between an infamously predatory director (John Malkovich) entering into a relationship with the 17 - year - old daughter (Chloe Grace Moretz) of Louis» character, the juxtaposition of a black - and - white,»40s - screwball comedy setting with profane, raunchy humor just never works.
A screwball splatter flick which might best thought of as a campy cross of Cotton Comes to Harlem and No Country for Old Men.
2016 at the movies got off to a great start with the Coen Brothers» old - Hollywood screwball extravaganza Hail Caesar, and while Channing Tatum did his level best with a tap - dancing - sailors production number to steal the show, the MVP ended up being the unassuming angelic face of Alden Ehrenreich.
Airy and lush (the film's Monaco backdrop, the location for Juliette's impending wedding, is gorgeously captured by master cinematographer Thierry Arbogast), Heartbreaker harks back to old - fashioned Preston Sturges — style escapism, with equal parts sophistication, screwball, and heart, that is all but extinct.
The films beat out a number of other worthy contenders like Gregory La Cava's Stage Door, Frank Capra's dramatic fantasy Lost Horizon, the Darryl F. Zanuck - produced drama In Old Chicago, and the Cary Grant - Irene Dunne screwball comedy The Awful Truth.
Gerwig and director Noah Baumbach conceived «Mistress America» as a tribute to the screwball comedies of old, giving the movie a manic, theatrical fizz - characters running in and out of frame, dialogue coming in volleys.
Parke's debut novel melds screwball comedy, hipster - style irony and an old - fashioned unreliable narrator into a quirky whodunit that challenges our perceptions about how we think and interact with the world around us.