Sentences with phrase «opportunities for comedy»

Combining images, text and symbols let people deliver a vivid yet nuanced idea instantly, opening up new opportunities for comedy.

After watching McAdams in Game Night, I wish she was given more opportunities for comedy.

Not exact matches

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I was fortunate enough to be given the opportunity for a phone interview with actress Angela Kinsey, best known for her role TV's Emmy award winning comedy «The Office».

The other students, including almighty stubborn «Gatuso», also expressed interest in the trip, and how they schemed to outwit the intelligent ones to pass the test for the opportunity to travel to DC, was something any comedy and stage play lover would not have afford to miss.

Pursue your passions in western New York with lakes, grapes, wineries, cultural centers like the Chautauqua Institution, museums like the Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz Center for Comedy and soon to be National Comedy Center, and an abundance of outdoor recreational opportunities from fishing to snow sports.

Live music is a great opportunity to connect through dance, outdoor street food festivals offer a fun way to explore with the pallet, and comedy themed festivals are great for setting a positive tone to the date (who doesn't love to laugh?!).

Oklahoma City dating is filled with opportunities to explore - from river cruises to comedy nights and haunted houses, there is something for everyone.

Critic Consensus: I Do... Until I Don't misses opportunities for fresh observations, settling instead for a middle of the road romantic comedy lacking memorable characters or real emotional stakes.

This scene could be read as either an arbitrary acknowledgment of Lincoln's documented interest in psychic phenomena or a brief opportunity for Spielberg and cinematographer Janusz Kamiński to reprise their watery fishbowl motif from Minority Report, but it really serves the more interesting, ambitious purpose of establishing Lincoln as a comedy of the narcissism that binds prophecy with political policy.

This hardly seems the subject for comedy, but in practice, that very thing presents an ideal comic opportunity, both because of the sheer perversity of these brutal figures and the bizarreness of looking at them in a comedy context.

In the premise of a grouch who can't ditch the local holy rollers, there's an opportunity here for a very funny farce or a comedy - drama in the vein of Capra or Sturges, but director Mark Pellington leans toward the maudlin, trite and sentimental when Henry meets his other neighbors: six - year - old mute Millie (adorable Morgan Lily) and her divorcée mother Dawn (radiant Radha Mitchell).

Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe may be «The Nice Guys» in director Shane Black's new action - comedy, but the pair took every opportunity to needle each other at the Cannes press conference for the film Sunday.

Love is certainly all around in this ensemble comedy - drama set in the holiday season: even a school nativity play is an opportunity for romance.

But this creates an opportunity for assorted kooky and ineffectual bit players to steal the spotlight: Christopher Meloni as the clueless adventurer who volunteers to be Linda and Emily's guide in the Colombian jungle; Randall Park as Emily's boyfriend; and especially Bashir Salahuddin, a veteran late - night comedy writer who previously played Malik on HBO's Looking, as the blasé State Department functionary forced to field Linda, Emily, and Jeffrey's panicked phone calls.

Venice Film Festival If any one title in the Shakespeare library has been sufficiently fiddled about with on screen, it's «The Tempest,» among the most tonally malleable of his comedies, and a fantasy that gifts filmmakers with obvious opportunities for spectacle.

At this weekend's press junket for the romantic comedy Baggage Claim, Collider got the opportunity to chat with actor Djimon Hounsou about his role as the wealthy and exotic businessman, Quinton Jamison, who is one of the exes that flight attendant Montana Moore (Paula Patton) decides to track down and reconnect with.

Stranding a Manhattan couple (Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston) in a hippie commune in rural Georgia provides some clear opportunities for fish - out - of - water comedy, but Wain and his cast never go for the obvious joke, and they're willing to push the material in eccentric directions.

By allowing Kay Cannon the opportunity to direct a comedy like this one, it is a huge step forward in the fight for female filmmakers.

The film is a good half hour longer than its prequel, meaning there's more opportunities for jokes even if a good hour of the film isn't particularly funny, but having an hour of your comedy not work is never a good thing.

Is that where your personal sense of humor lies, or have you just not had much opportunity to do comedies for a younger audience?

And that wacky endeavor provides plenty of opportunities for levity in Away We Go, a screwball comedy directed by Oscar - winner Sam Mendes (for American Beauty).

The actor - who is married to Emily Blunt - has played Jim Halpert on the comedy for seven years and while he doesn't want to say goodbye, he is happy that he and his castmates have the opportunity to bring their storylines to a satisfactory conclusion.

New film comedy is a missed opportunity for its talented star, with a story that pulls its punches too often, delivering a tepid comedy that is only mildly diverting.

While I am recommending Stuck on You for being an intelligent dumb comedy, I do feel the need to reiterate that those Farrelly Brothers fans that have been waiting for them to return to pushing the limits of the R rating again will still be frustrated that toilet matter and bodily fluids aren't being splashed across the screen at every opportunity.

While the descriptions «date movie» and «romantic comedy» might scare a few guys off, they should be grateful for the opportunity to let (with some subtle reinforcement) their significant other pick «Wedding Crashers» and save their turn to choose «The Island» (opening 7/22) or the Jessica Simpson - in - Daisy - Dukes spectacle (8/5).

Atlanta multi-talent Donald Glover is this year's answer to Master of None's Aziz Ansari; Jeffrey Tambor should probably just block out every awards season that occurs for as long as Transparent is airing; NBC's delightful afterlife comedy The Good Place will give the Globes another opportunity to celebrate their pal Ted Danson, who already has three Globes (and eight additional nominations) to his name.

The Uncommon Reader is not an insiders look into the life of the person best known as the Queen of England but rather an opportunity for Bennett to play around with the caricature of the Queen, familiar to most of us from comedy sketches and news reels.

The larger neighbouring resorts offer plenty of opportunities for shopping and activities during the day, with clubs, comedy, live music and performances available in the evenings.

It's an awesome opportunity to embrace their inherent potential for comedy and otherworldly weirdness, which have always been big parts of our game, as well as reimagining what all of them would be like as school - aged students from Atillan Academy.

So when a member of our curatorial advisory board Jessamyn Fiore approached us with the NASTY WOMEN Exhibition idea, we were thrilled to not only use our space to amplify the cause but also to build upon the momentous response and enthusiasm for the exhibition with STAY NASTY — four days of music, comedy, performances, workshops, and an information fair, which offers New York City's musicians, artists, activists, and community health organizations a platform and opportunity to get involved alongside the hundreds of NASTY WOMEN artists.»

With these works she ironically combines comedy, shock, and curiosity with her «executions,» while offering an opportunity for interesting interpretations with her choice of «bullets» — and target.

This is an opportunity for the civilian and military world to connect through comedy, dispel stereotypes and misnomers, and engage in an honest dialogue about the veteran, military, and human experience.

We discussed the genesis of ReplyAll, how it works, the challenges associated with creating a technology start - up, how stand - up comedy fueled his work, the connection between ReplyAll and legal tech, and available opportunities for disruption in the legal field.