Sentences with phrase «school comedies like»

Nadine is the kind of whip - sarcastic type that tends to foreground high school comedies like these, but she's also miserable in more than the everyday Daria sense.

Not exact matches

I also bought some clothes for my dad and he likes them I will borrow some comedies for sure Omg you have to get up that early to get them ready for school.

My favorites would have to be Band of outsiders for holding it at a comedy club I think that's a fun idea and would make a cool thing to watch.I also liked Pronounce I would so wear those clothes but in black of course, but my first fav would have to be KTZ as a punk in my youth yes I had a mowak I really liked the old school vibes in this collection.

Thrillist has an article that highlights Philly's newest hobbies, and it includes things like cycling with the Bicycle Coalition, taking photos with Philadelphia Photo Center, bowling with the league at South Bowl, learning how to play an instrument with Swift Lessons, dancing with the Koresh Dance Company, trying your hand at comedy with the Philly Improv Theater, cooking with Restaurant School, and playing volleyball with the Philadelphia Sports League.

I am 6ft 4in tall 230 lbs blonde hair blue eyes I am 54 years old I am divorced no kids I am Scottish dutch and Irish I drive a truck local here in the Denver metro area I like action and comedy movies I like classic rock and country and jazz I am old school I like to ride my bike weather...

Old School, which follows three grown men (Luke Wilson's Mitch, Will Ferrell's Frank, and Vince Vaughn's Beanie) as they turn their house into a fraternity, marks director Todd Phillips» first fictional endeavor since Road Trip, and it's immediately clear that the movie, like that 2000 Tom Green comedy, manages to entertain in spite of a distinct lack of overt laughs.

For the most part «Old School» opts out of the gross - out style of comedy used in the likes of «American Pie» and «Road Trip», but maintains a certain low - brow appeal that for some inexplicable reason still works fairly well.

A men - will - be-boys comedy, Old School imagines what it would be like if three guys in their 30s suddenly decided to start their own fraternity.

If you spend too much time on comedy you get a film like Old School, which I found hilarious but had a weakly confused and rambling plot.

Lost in the cacophony of superheroes, explosions, and raunchy holiday comedies, MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS arrives ready to remind us what old - school film was like.

I liked Old School less and less as it wore on, character comedy souring into cheap shots like Ferrell injecting himself with the tranq gun of Seann William Scott (that's right, three minutes with Stifler from American Pie!).

Around the time of the late 1980s, these young - old body - switch comedies were becoming quite plentiful, starting with 1984's After School Special, Summer Switch, 1987's Big (though no bodies are switched, it's very similar) and Like Father Like Son, and in 1988, there were three more notables, Vice Versa, 18 Again!

For a director known for comedies — namely The Hangover trilogy, but also Road Trip, Old School, and Due Date, among others — Phillips doesn't seem to like directing comedies.

Glee: The Complete First Season Available on DVD and Blu - ray Theater geeks like me and millions of Americans came out of hiding this year to watch this sometimes brilliant high school comedy musical which incorporates pop and Broadway music into school life.

After making his name in adult - targeted comedies like «Swingers», «Old School» and «Wedding Crashers», Vince Vaughn turned to PG - 13 movies like «The Break - up», «Couples Retreat» and «The Internship».

Add to that several college friends, all of them wildly successful financially and socially (in corporate - capitalist America, nothing else really matters) and the result looks a lot like the blandly named Brad Sloan (Ben Stiller), a navel - gazing, 47 - turning -55-year-old facing the obligatory mid-life crisis with bitterness, resentment, and self - loathing in writer - director Mike White's (Beatriz at Dinner, Enlightened, Year of the Dog, School of Rock) uneven comedy - drama, Brad's Status.

Using precision in dialogue, tone and character, Burnham is able to make unique comedy about things that have been normalized in 2018, like school shooting drills and the toxic wave of fake - woke dudes.

Bad Moms is one of the more pushy raunchy comedies you'll likely come across, a film so reliant on using vulgarity as a crutch it has characters drop F - bombs at their children's schools and during PTA meetings because without them, the makers of this film feel like they won't get a laugh from audiences prone to guffaw just because they heard harsh language.

This was produced by Todd Phillips, director of comedy greats like Road Trip, Old School, The Hangover and Due Date.

With a cast packed with soon - to - be stars like James Franco, Seth Rogen and Linda Cardellini, the high school comedy only lasted for one season, but it's still referred to as one of the greatest series ever more than 15 years later.

Director Todd Phillips has a background in comedy (The Hangover movies, Old School) so he poses these questions between chuckles, but the result is like holding a mirror up to our faces.

God's Pocket wants to be from the same school of dark comedy that the likes of the Coen Brothers or Spike Jonze do so well but Slattery can't pinpoint a focus on a film that is filled with too many subplots and bit part players that just don't get enough to do in the picture.

A»90s - obsessed high school senior and self - confessed nerd who falls into a get - rich - quick scheme by accident while also pining for the older girl to whom he hopes to lose his virginity, the central character in Rick Famuyiwa «s «Dope» sounds like a stock role for a high school comedy.

The film did seem to re-energize studio interest in the high school comedy, especially those inspired by classic literature, as movies like She's All That and 10 Things I Hate About You would follow.

One highlight is the short Cours du Soir (Evening Classes), a comedy about a surreal school for well dressed businessmen learning the fine art of tripping over steps, walking into walls, and smoking a cigarette like an amateur, written by and starring Tati.

The actor may have made his name in Disney's cheery High School Musical and since starred in comedies like Baywatch and musicals like The Greatest Showman, but he's finally ready to disturb us with a heavy role as notorious real - life serial killer Ted Bundy.

Permanent (PG - 13 for profanity, crude humor, sexual references and mature themes) Coming - of - age comedy, set in the South in 1982, revolving around a white «tweener (Kira McLean), new to a town, who ends up ostracized at school after her hairdresser accidentally leaves her with an afro instead of curls like her idol, Farah Fawcett.

Among his few starring roles, the one best known and liked would almost certainly have to be Thornton Melon, the wealthy, uncouth protagonist of the blockbuster 1986 comedy Back to School.

We get a high school comedy, in which our protagonists for some inexplicable reason look like their forty - years old.

It's from that classic Brooks or Zucker school of comedy — don't like a joke, wait five seconds for another one.

The film is exceptionally written — every line of dialogue sounds like something a person might actually say and, as someone who was a high school senior in 2002, it felt so authentic that I thought I was watching a documentary about my generation's coming - of - age instead of a comedy - drama from the co-writer of Frances Ha and Mistress America.

The actor has shown comedic promise in films like 17 Again and That Awkward Moment (even if the latter was a bit of a disappointment as a whole), but the former High School Musical star goes full tilt in this flick, showing he can run with the comedy bull that is Seth Rogen.

But Royal spins his own tale, and seriously, you know you have a solid, intelligent script if you can attract the likes of Oscar nominees Patricia Clarkson and Stanley Tucci to star in a high school comedy.

About a small town that goes to hell when someone starts publicly posting private social - media exchanges and search histories, Assassination Nation looks like an arch, bloody high - school horror - comedy that, sure, could be a Heathers for our age.

There are many things to like about Pineapple Express, an old - school action - comedy retooled as a stoner goof, but Franco's return to humor is a cause for celebration, or at least relief that he's finally come back to us.

A high - school wrestling comedy with perennial indie schlub Paul Giamatti coaching sounds like it could be an unbearable retread of recent bombs like Mr. Woodcock or Drillbit Taylor, but with a surefire ensemble cast and a tricky balance of humor and pathos more in line with Little Miss Sunshine, Win Win turns out to be one of the early sleeper surprises of 2011.

Filmed live, Mr. Peepers feels like a vaudeville comedy routine, with Peepers going on dull «adventures» (his words) such as a surprise birthday party put on by his girlfriend Nancy, the school nurse, and a comic save - the - day sewing job on a costume for the school play.

«Folks like this use comedy and music and are fun, but in the midst of their humor, they have really good substance,» said Fred Morton, superintendent of the Henrico County Public Schools in Richmond, Virginia, who has used Wavelength in his current and former district.

«You could look at it and say Nick Gibb has got an expanded brief as minister for school standards, so his stock is rising, or you could look at the appointment in the tradition of Theresa May, who seems to like the divine comedy of putting people in charge of something they have messed up!»

Like laughter in comedy, student discussion and sharing is the foremost goal we educators should seek, as it is critical to helping our students manage through the stresses and social challenges they face at school and at home.

Title: School Rumble Genre: Comedy, Romance, Slice of Life Author: Jin Kobayashi Synopsis: She... is a second - year high school student with a single all - consuming question: Will the boy she likes ever really noticSchool Rumble Genre: Comedy, Romance, Slice of Life Author: Jin Kobayashi Synopsis: She... is a second - year high school student with a single all - consuming question: Will the boy she likes ever really noticschool student with a single all - consuming question: Will the boy she likes ever really notice her?

Huddled under my flower - print bedspread, surrounded by high - school soccer trophies and my homecoming - princess tiara, I felt like a character in a dark comedy about an aging prom queen who returns to her childhood home after flaming out in the big city.

The plot had a little bit of everything — high school comedy, sci - fi aliens, somehow feeling a little like Urusei Yatsura but with more of a current shonen flair to it.

The set - up feels like a text book part - sports manga (athlete facing injury from the past helps others improve and become better) and part - harem - comedy manga (one high school boy suddenly thrust into a team of girls and the wackiness that will ensue in his life).

Most episodes take place either at the Pokemon school or on Melemele Island, and there's more of an emphasis on comedy and what's it like to live in a Pokemon society than in past seasons.

This year's showcase of top student talent include slapstick physical comedy adventure Octodad, from DePaul University's Team DGE2, University of Montreal student Richard E. Flanagan's boldly styled Myst - like adventure Fract, and Tiny and Big, an ambitious, comic - book styled 3D action platformer from Germany's School of Arts and Design Kassel.

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.

That is the benefit of comedy traffic schools like the improv traffic school.

While others, like MyImprov Comedy Driving School, only need you to score 80 % on an online test to pass.

Since comedy clubs also often give away tickets over social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, paying a higher price for a defensive driving class at a comedy club that charges more than a defensive driving school is paying more than you have to.