Sentences with phrase «other comedy experienced»

Not only is Efron a worthy adversary, but it never seems like he's reaching too far or trying too hard to keep up with Rogen or other comedy experienced co-stars like Dave Franco or Christopher Mintz - Plasse.

Not exact matches

A WTF film experience like few others, the incomprehensible 2003 melodrama (and unintentional comedy) The Room begs for Mystery Science Theater 3000 cat - calling, a vanity project so bizarrely conceived and ineptly executed that even Edward D. Wood Jr. might disown it.

The actress / singer dropped off the movie scene for several years in order to pursue her musical career and other ventures, then came back with a bang for a supporting role in Whip It, a comedy drama following an ex-pageant queen's experiences on a roller derby team.

Aside from the well - noted fact that more superior long - form drama (and comedy) can be found on television than in cinemas, the two most interesting motion picture experiences I had in 2012 were in galleries: The Clock (Christian Marclay, 2010), a staggering and hypnotic achievement of which I still have some of its 24 hours to catch up with, and two multi-screen installations by Candice Breitz: «Him» and «Her» in which many scenes from the films of Jack Nicholson (in Him) and Meryl Streep (in Her), isolate the actors from their filmic background leaving the actors to speak to and interrogate each other across space and time on many themes of character, identity, success, failure, anger and disappointment.

Just because this ill - conceived film is a comedy that's almost void of humor is no reason to spoil the experience for those who opt to see this train wreck (literally) instead of the numerous other holiday season film options.

Co-written by estimable Frownland director Ronald Bronstein, it's inspired by the experiences of street kid Arielle Holmes, who plays a fictional version of herself alongside actor Caleb Landry Jones in what's described as «a tumultuous drama about a New York City couple battling addiction in the midst of a love affair»... And finally, the prize for oddest remake of the week: French thriller specialist Jean - François Richet is changing gear rather alarmingly with his, er, «reboot» is the word I'm looking for, of Claude Berri's 1977 comedy Un moment d'égarement, in which two fathers take their sexy adolescent daughters on vacation — and one of them is seduced by the other's jeune fille.

I have experienced something similar on a much smaller scale, for when I give friends and other associates my standard introductory «mini-festival» of Hindi popular cinema, the title that consistently connects the strongest is this film — which initially surprised me, considering it's as undiluted an example as any of the very un-Hollywood masala formula: broad, often silly comedy mixed with earnest, tear - jerking sentiment, all peppered with the occasional song and dance over the course of a typically lengthy run time of just over three hours.

This kind of episodic romantic comedy practically writes itself, with a loser at the center of the film going back to meet all the wildly eccentric women of his past, one after the other, until he finally matures through the experience and can make the leap to find true love.

In the comedy - drama Ruby Sparks, however, directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris («Little Miss Sunshine») take the idea that we naturally create our own experience and turn it into a magic trick, a one - of - a-kind miracle that provides ego gratification and manipulation of others.

Like comedies, horror movies have always been enriched by being a communal experience where you can hear other patrons gasp or nervously giggle in the dark, which may help explain their multiplex resilience in the on - demand home entertainment era.

Other bits featuring in Oswalt's Finest Hour: the value of sweatpants, the differences between a comedian and a stripper, the way in which he'd like to see a Jennifer Aniston romantic comedy advertised, a depressing description of the circus, his desire to be the first non-ironic visitor of the Spam Museum, his experiences with Weight Watchers, dreams on Ambien, and a Disneyland attraction with the potential to traumatize children.

The exhibition's title references Freaky Friday, the 1976 American comedy where a daughter and mother switch bodies and experience each other's lives firsthand.