Sentences with phrase «room for some comedy»

Fortunately, it's really good, providing series creators David Wain and Michael Showalter plenty more room for comedy that flits instantaneously between high - and low - brow, between richly character - based humor and total absurdity.

, but horror is perhaps its best fit, with room for some comedy and drama as well.

Otherwise, there would be room for comedies such as Don't Think Twice and The Edge of Seventeen, which also joined Deadpool as best comedy nominees by the Critics» Choice Awards.

Not exact matches

Charna Halpern started her influential Chicago comedy business in 1981, offering classes for $ 15 from her living room.

Although its history is likely a hoax, Groupon comedy writers are said to use the room for inspiration or to «blow off a little steam,» Business Insider reports.

He's continued working with Greg over the years, using the cult status of The Room to his benefit and pretending he meant for his movie to be a comedy all along.

Still struggling to find a steady job in comedy, Peter's been rooming with his ex-wife's former lover, working at Cold Stone (to one customer: «Chocolate with gummy bears... okay»), and bumming for stage time at an unpopular Manhattan club.

It truly is a sad day for country music because there is no room for innovation and unfortunately the Blue Collar Comedy Tour has had a direct effect on the market all too much.

Lorimar Vineyards & Winery Laugh Your Glass Off, Comedy Show / August 3 / 6:00 pm in the Barrel Room at Lorimar / Tickets are available at www.lorimarwinery.com / Cost is $ 20; $ 18 for Wine Club.

And for those comedians and comediennes in training, introduce them to everything from dinosaur jokes to ghost jokes for their own stand - up comedy performance right in your living room.

The film, which hits theaters February 16, is a modern twist on a romantic comedy (boy and girl meet, fall in love, but then break up, and are suddenly reunited, ending up in that awkward stage where they have to debate whether to wave hello while taking out the trash), but it's also a particularly female spin on the coming of age story, the likes of which we're only beginning to see onscreen as more women carve out a place for themselves in writer's rooms and director's chairs.

I love music and often dance in my living room, love to cook for others when I have the time and absolutely love being out in nature as well as movies, comedy and the arts.

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.

Danny Trejo wasn't on screen enough for me, and in the extended scenes it's clear that his comedy stylings have hit the cutting room floor, presumably to keep the tone of the film more level.

There is more than enough room for every variety of comedy on TV today.

A delicious combination of idiosyncratic character drama and increasingly violent and violently absurd comedy, this Netflix title opened the U.S. Dramatic Competition at Sundance this year and is an assured debut for Blair, the star of Jeremy Saulnier's Blue Ruin and Green Room.

This is a more conventional effort on nearly all levels, with room for some titillation, comedy relief, and other escape valves.

Unsurprisingly, word - of - mouth hit Green Room won the Audience Award, followed by the Hungarian comedy - fantasy Liza The Fox Fairy, which I'm still kicking myself for missing and was not made available as a screener.

Remarkably forthright and even Capra - like in its critique of capitalism's encroachment on traditional values, No Room for the Groom is both a tale about the trials facing returned servicemen and a canny variation on the romantic comedy of remarriage.

Shane Meadows» previous film «Once Upon a Time in the Midlands» (2002) was, as its title would suggest, an attempt to transplant the American western onto English soil — but the hybrid which emerged was a disappointing romantic comedy that almost ruined the director's reputation (carefully built upon the improvised do - it - yourself naturalism of his 1997 debut «Twenty Four Seven» and his 1999 follow - up «A Room for Romeo Brass»).

Further, this comedy with music seems poised to be cat - nip for the Golden Globe contingent, so Meryl could easily be clearing room on her mantle for another Golden Globe.

Their ensuing black - comedy adventure is grimy, bloody, and ridiculous, as director Macon Blair (best known for his performances in Jeremy Saulnier's Blue Ruin and Green Room) pitches his material as an absurdist neo-noir saga about combatting existential despair.

By balancing its party - minded ethic with a climactic test (albeit a crammed - for one), Road Trip winds up being a touch more college - comprehensive than the average kegger - comedy, but humor connoisseurs will note its flatness, room temperature, and empty calories.

From 3D cane toads on opening night (Cane Toads: The Conquest) to John Woo kung fu to close the program (Reign Of Assassins), possibly the world's first «womantic» feature (the Brisbane - based comedy Jucy) to the utterly indescribable (Tommy Wiseau cult phenomenon The Room), the new look festival — in a new timeslot and new venues (Palace Centro and Barracks cinemas, and Tribal Theatre)-- has assembled an amazing line - up, with films for young (well, 18 and over for the most part, given the severing of links between BIFF and Cine Sparks) and old.

Actors Gary Cole, Clea DuVall, Anna Chlumsky, Julia Louis - Dreyfus, Kevin Dunn, Tony Hale, Matt Walsh, Sam Richardson, and Reid Scott, winners of the award for Outstanding Comedy Series for «Veep,» pose in the press room at the 69th... More

But the film, which tells the story of how mystery man Tommy Wiseau made what's often been called the worst movie of all time, The Room, has earned mostly positive reviews and was nominated for two Golden Globes, including Best Picture (Comedy or Musical.)

The one remaining elephant in the room is the 2015 Silver Screen Riot Awards where we pick and choose from the elite and populist alike to make our selection for best director, performer, cinematographer, screenplay, documentary, foreign film, action movie, horror movie and comedy.

Actress Tracee Ellis Ross, winner of Best Performance in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy for «Black - ish,» poses in the press room during the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 8, 2017 in Beverly Hills, California.

The anthology comedy series «Room 104», from brothers Jay and Mark Duplass, will begin production in Los Angeles later this year for...

There is so darn much setup that it leaves no room for impulses to run free, so Confetti lacks the outlandish giddiness that comes from great improvisational comedy, but it's also missing the benefits of scripted film - like character development or storylines that are brought to a satisfying conclusion.

Director Jack Perez, who previously directed the John Landis - produced Some Guy Who Kills People, cast Dante and Landis in cameo roles in Blast Vegas, and Landis even had an in - joke in the credits for his gangster comedy Oscar, in which Joe Dante is billed as Face on the Cutting Room Floor.

As for the limited wiggle room that the public has given Sandler, his and Samberg's latest collaboration, the animated family horror comedy Hotel Transylvania, grossed more in its opening weekend than That's My Boy made in its entirety.

This intriguing plot gives MacFarlane plenty of room to fill the movie with the crude, profane comedy that he's known for.

James Franco won Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy for his performance in The Disaster Artist as Tommy Wiseau, the real - life director, writer, and star of the so - bad - it's - good cult film The Room.

The Room fans watched the Golden Globes in awe as James Franco brought things full circle for Tommy Wiseau who came on stage during his emotional speech after winning Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical for The Disaster Artist.

In terms of the comedy category, there is a little more breathing room that allows for people like Amy Schumer for Trainwreck, Lily Tomlin for Grandma, Maggie Smith for The Lady in the Van.

For this latest episode of Film Club, A.A. Dowd and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky return to Farmhouse Tavern to talk about three excellent smaller films in theaters or coming soon to them: Richard Linklater's»80s campus comedy Everybody Wants Some, now in theaters everywhere; the smart, moving family drama Louder Than Bombs, which opened in select theaters today and will expand in the coming weeks; and the forthcoming punk - rock thriller Green Room, which begins its theatrical release next week.

Friday, July 25 «Archer» Fox Booth Signing Press Room: 3:30 p.m. — 4:30 p.m. Panel: 5 p.m. — 6 p.m.: Screening and Q&A: «Archer» is an animated comedy that revolves around the International Secret Intelligence Service (ISIS) and its employees who use every covert operation and global crisis as another excuse to undermine, sabotage and betray each other for personal gain.

Although The Disaster Artist maintains a great reverence for The Room, the film can be seen as a funny comedy about how such true - to - life absurdities can be a catalyst for such a terrible yet mesmerising piece of art.

Bart Got a Room (PG - 13 for sexuality, mature themes and brief profanity) Coming - of - age comedy about a nerdy high school senior (Steven Kaplan) whose search for a prom date becomes increasingly desperate as the big night draws nearer.

Laurie Metcalf, Greta Gerwig and Saoirse Ronan poses with the award for Best Motion Picture Musical or Comedy in «Lady Bird» in the press room during The 75th Annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 7, 2018 in... More

Timothee Chalamet, Laurie Metcalf, Greta Gerwig and Saoirse Ronan poses with the award for Best Motion Picture Musical or Comedy in «Lady Bird» in the press room during The 75th Annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on... More

WHAT»S THE DEAL: A creative underachiever's procrastination project in his living room turns out to be Tardis - like labyrinth where booby traps, comedy, and danger lurk around every corner for the friends who try to rescue him.

James Franco for The Disaster Artist The Golden Globe - winning director and star of the comedy about the worst movie ever made was on a roll going in to the Oscar nominations, having picked up a Golden Globe, a Critics» Choice Award and a Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for playing the heavily accented auteur of The Room, Tommy Wiseau.

After rising to fame with violent revenge features El Mariarchi and Desperado, cultivating a cult audience with horror comedy From Dusk till Dawn, and helming a segment of anthology effort Four Rooms alongside Quentin Tarantino, his ability to create entertainment for younger viewers had not crossed many minds.

Actor William H. Macy, winner of Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series for «Shameless,» poses in the press room during the 24th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Auditorium on January 21, 2018 in Los... More

And the winner for actress in a comedy series was Julia Louis - Dreyfus — setting a SAG record in the process — who played the country's first female president in «Veep» and shared the category with inspirational figures to many in the room, Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda of «Grace and Frankie.»

The movie star was onstage to accept the award for best actor in a comedy or musical for The Disaster Artist, in which he plays Wiseau during the making of The Room.

Tommy's whole identity is wrapped up in The Room now and taking credit for it being a comedy, when I don't think he intended it to be that in the beginning.

«' The Room» has been playing for 14 - and - a-half years, sort of like the new «Rocky Horror Picture Show» but, like, even worse,» Franco, 39, chuckles about the ineptly written, acted and directed tale of romantic betrayal that novice director Wiseau thought would be a Tennessee Williams - style, Oscar - contending drama, but since its laughed - at premiere has agreed with the world that it is a so - bad - its - great comedy.