Sentences with phrase «small indie comedies»

Ringer editor - in - chief Sean Fennessey chats with Taika Waititi about his transition from small indie comedies in New Zealand to Marvel's big - budget superhero epic Thor: Ragnarok.

Before hitting it big with his smash hit Three Kings, writer - director David O. Russell made his mark with small indie comedies like Spanking the Monkey and this cult gem, Flirting with Disaster.

Not exact matches

She appeared with Kevin Costner in Message in a Bottle before going on to make the independent film Happy, Texas, the supernatural thriller Stir of Echoes with Kevin Bacon, and Can't Stop Dancing, a comedy in which she acted alongside Margaret Cho and Janeane Garofalo.She had a fine turn in the well - reviewed indie Ghost World, and a small turn in the infamous turkey The Adventures of Pluto Nash.

The sensibility of David Gordon Green, who jumps from indie dramas of small town tragedy to this stoner buddy comedy, is one of the reasons that Pineapple Express works.

One of the biggest Sundance hits of 2015 was a small - budget indie comedy about an aspiring high school filmmaker and his friendship with a sick classmate entitled Me and Earl and the Dying Girl.

Freestyle Digital Media has debuted an official trailer for an indie comedy titled Bernard and Huey, from director Dan Mirvish (co-founder of the Slamdance Film Festival), which premiered at a few small film festivals last year.

* Asked how he feels about going from very small indie films to a massive, effects - driven fantasy / comedy, Green said: «Well, just like probably all of you guys like to see different kinds of movies every week — a little of this, a little of that — it's fun professionally to, like, get in the ring and design creatures and have guys in suits and puppets and just, y ’ know, bring in all this stuff... I remember when I was a kid, and if something like «Behind The Scenes of Return of The Jedi» would come on, I'd just be glued to the screen, wishing that one day I'd be able to get my hands dirty doing something like that.

The dark indie comedy «Middle Man» again casts O'Heir as a pitiable figure, shifting small towns from the fictional Pawnee, Ind., to Peoria, Ill., but otherwise keeping the «Kick me» sign pinned to his back.

It's an entire subgenre unto itself: the indie comedy - drama about a guy in his 30s who goes back to his small town to deal with his wacky, dysfunctional family and learn some important life lessons.

«Reach Me» is an indie comedy whose primary virtue is its cast, well - known actors who took small roles on a lark — a chance to play against «type.»

The trailer for Jonas Akerlund's indie - comedy «Small Apartments» introduces a superb cast including Matt Lucas, Peter Stormare and Billy Crystal.

Known for smaller, critically acclaimed indie comedy films like What We Do in the Shadows and Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Waititi joked that Marvel Studios «didn't care» about their movies anymore because they hired him — but the partnership was ideal considering his storytelling skills.

Deadpool 2 was the first true comedy he says he's ever directed, outside of a couple small personal projects or indie ventures made for friends.

Murphy went on to return to the stage and also star in a series of small romantic comedies, crime thrillers, and indie flicks, and briefly re-appeared in The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises.

Indie film goddess Greta Gerwig makes her solo directorial debut with this «hella tight» noughties throwback coming of age comedy - a sweet and wistful ode to mothers and daughters, growing pains, and the ups and downs of small - town adolescence.