Sentences with phrase «stabs at comedy»

Otto Preminger's stabs at comedy are few, and none got more lethal notices than this one.

There's not much that's original in this stab at comedy, and I say «stab» because it feels as if they're trying to kill it, and trying, and trying.

If the Farrellys wanted this to be their stab at a comedy of honest observation, they really boxed themselves in with this subject.

Not exact matches

Among other opportunities, it gave Clooney the chance to take his first real stab at screwball comedy, a box he was eventually going to have to check if he wanted to validate the by - now - ubiquitous comparisons between him and Cary Grant.

• The movie was the Coens» first — and to date, only — stab at romantic comedy, though with generous helpings of noir, screwball, and Hollywood satire thrown in.

Shandling was always drawn to comedy, but made a stab at a civilian vocation by majoring in business in college.

An exhilarating mix of dark comedy, white - knuckle action and dramatic intrigue, Gringo joyrides into Mexico, where mild - mannered businessman Harold Soyinka (David Oyelowo) finds himself at the mercy of his back - stabbing business colleagues (Joel Edgerton and Charlize Theron), local drug lords and a morally conflicted black - ops mercenary (Sharlto Copley).

He is known for his outrageous R - rated comedies (The Hangover, Old School, Due Date), but he is taking a stab at the dramedy genre with this based - on - a-true story flick.