Sentences with phrase «starts as a comedy»

That's everyone in this movie, which starts as a comedy, becomes an adventure, then a romance, then a detective story, then a comedy again.

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He's started producing original scripted comedies, and it's no coincidence that most of the companies buying them haven't traditionally produced or aired comedy, so don't view him as a threat — at least not at the moment.

Starting Thursday, NBC is making Seeso available as part of a month - long beta test, which will give selected customers the first opportunity to navigate the service's library of ad - free NBC comedy programming.

What critics said: «Perfectly acceptable as an action movie but inspired as a comedy — which is probably where the Thor franchise should have been aiming from the start.»

He's coming off the sixth season of Veep, HBO's astonishingly funny comedy that started out as a look at the vice-presidential career of Selina Meyer (as played by Julia Louis - Dreyfus) but has morphed into something more complex and, ultimately, more satisfying.

It's no longer just a shame that we will start the Season with Giroud and Walcott as our main strikers, it's a comedy.

I describe myself as... well to start weird as f# @k and well pretty out going iv got the whole «tragedy behind comedy» thing going on i like to try and keep others smileing and laughing... right upto the point someone talks s.h.i.t about skyrim or tenacious D thats when i bring the pain.

Speaking to Business Insider, Alper spoke about the viral success of the app, which started as an idea for a comedy sketch and became serious after the entrepreneur discovered a study that said people «bond over the things they hate more strongly than over the things they love».

Way back when, Edmonton started a long standing tradition of a fringe festival not too dissimilar from Edinburgh's world famous comedy knees - up, and there are other long standing cultural treats such as the Ukrainian Cultural Village.

Visita That Awkward Moment - Quel Momento Imbarazzante (2014)[BRrip - XviD - Italian English Ac3 - Sub ita Eng] MIRCrew Quel Momento Imbarazzante Romantic comedy about three male friends (Efron, Teller, Jordan) in Manhattan who make a pact to remain single just as they start falling in love.

As a low - budget horror comedy outing, Severance is an impressive film that is original and lots of fun from start to finish.

Jim Carrey stars as a man who starts a performance troupe with his penguins in Mark Waters» new comedy.

What starts off as a cheap sci - fi turns into all out comedy.

Starting with their appearances in The Egg and I (1947), which starred Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert, Main and Percy Kilbride became starring performers as Ma and Pa Kettle in a series of rural comedies.

It started off as what I thought was going to be a screwball comedy but slowly shifted gears into a heartbreaking tale of beauty and political corruption.

This is listed as a western comedy and I guess it did have a funny part or two, but its just a good story, A opera singer comes into town, she is not your typical opera singer by no mean, not big boned, fat or big busted, no this women is beautiful, and two brothers who can't stand each other start a quarrel over her.

Daley and Goldstein, who started off as actors, have co-directed one previous feature, the 2015 holiday - road reboot «Vacation,» but the sign that they're instinctive filmmakers, with a bold sense of comedy structure, comes in the sequence they stage, with serpentine ingenuity, at the home of a crime boss (Danny Huston) who has the film's MacGuffin — a Fabergé egg — locked in his safe.

The third season of the comedy finally starts on Valentine's Day as Grayson wants to take his relationship with Jules further, Laurie begins a new business, and Travis» return to college is anything but smooth sailing.

He appeared in Step Brothers, but started to generate buzz as the lead in the made for cable comedy series Party Down.

A dark psychological drama disguised as a comedy about an offbeat, mysterious family, specifically their five girls and how their parents (James Woods, Kathleen Turner) start to take their hands off their leashes after one of the girls (Hanna Hall) takes her life.

Starting with a timeless premise — young people are stupid — and spinning it into a broad, crass, and relentlessly amusing mid-summer surprise, «Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates» may not be the first Apatow - era comedy about twentysomethings coming to grips with the fact that they won't live forever (and it's certainly not the deepest, as it lingers in your memory for about as long as a Snapchat), but it might just be one of the funniest.

As a British director who made his start in TV comedy, I can vouch for the fact that this film is one of the key texts for every single UK comedy writer, actor, and director of my generation.

Comedy, competition and hip - hop are the flavas on the menu at TBS starting Sunday, April 15, as Snoop Dogg Presents The Joker's Wild returns at 10 PM ET / PT, followed by the renewed Drop The Mic at 10:30 PM ET / PT.

Wahlberg may not have a giant range as an actor on the whole, but for a guy who started his career in action flicks, he now has an even firmer handle on comedy.

The film works in fits and starts but rarely reaches critical mass as a comedy.

Downsizing starts out as this whimsical, sarcastic comedy, on par with Payne's writing style from Sideways or About Schmidt.

American Ultra starts out as if it will be a schlocky stoner comedy.

Heck, start with this one, which plays as a refinement of his special action - comedy blend.

It starts out as standard kid comedy fare a la Diary of a Wimpy Kid or How to Eat Fried Worms, but then unexpectedly snowballs into a poignant drama with weightier themes of life and death.

What starts out as a sincere portrait of addiction and recovery is undermined by aggressively broad comedy in this bizarre mashup from director William H. Macy.

That's all you need to know, really, because «The Birdcage» is mostly a comedy of character married to traditional farce, and in true farcical fashion things just get crazier and crazier — starting the moment that Armand decides to play it «straight» for his son's potential in - laws and masquerade as a «couple» with the boy's natural mother (Christine Baranski).

While people have cracked the code for finding the best comedies on Netflix right now, we decided to come up with a list of some of the funniest movies as a starting point in your quest for the perfect Friday night in.

While I have never attended the festival as press for anything other than film, I have attended a few interactive panels and comedy events over the past nine years since I started attending the festival.

SXSW started off as a small music festival but has quickly morphed into this huge event that now not only celebrates music but film, television, social media, technology, education, and comedy as well.

Honestly, I'm a little surprised that what started as harmless comedy franchise is tackling a pretty serious issue.

But then a funny thing happened: Ever so gradually, word got out about just how awful the movie was — how this near - tragic waste of an estimated $ 6 million budget might be appreciated as an accidental comedy — and audiences started coming to see for themselves.

The film didn't do much on release, and it's not hard to see why — starting out as a sweet quirky comedy and devolving into something with a much sourer heart and quite the pessimistic streak (at least as far as humans are concerned) it's a film that is difficult to categorize, and therefore sell, without disappointing the audiences who show up expecting something a bit more straightforward.

Glover started out as a sketch comedian before landing Community, and he's since shown off his visionary flair on his award - winning FX comedy Atlanta.

As they continued to go back to this part of the comedy, I started to worry that it might get a little worn out and lose a bit of its punch.

BAFTA award winning comedy «The Trip «set - up something completely original with guidance under director Michael Winterbottom and he returns for «The Trip To Italy «that will broadcast on BBC Two as a six part series starting in April 2014.

On the video side, where everything is encoded in HD, we start with «It's Never Just a Movie: Chris Rock and Top Five» (20:08) considers the star - filmmaker's parallels to his character and his history in comedy, with looks at his comedy bits and home movies, as well as interviews of other influential figures, from over the years.

Unusual, unpredictable and unpleasant, this starts out as domestic drama, transforms into a thriller with black comedy elements, then ends up in «Wicker Man «territory.

What starts out as a high flying comedy soon turns into unexpected drama about alcoholism.

The start was about two million less than Clooney's last film as director — the comedy Leatherheads (this new effort has had better reviews - read ours), and the political aspect has more in common with Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and Good Night, and Good Luck.

According to one fansite the directors» «screwball comedy angle» was «starting to interfere with what the character of Han Solo is really about», and Alden Ehrenreich's portrayal of a young Han Solo was described in the report as being «oddly comparable to Jim Carrey's performance in Ace Ventura at times».

He heads an ensemble of crack actors, each with a gift for finding pathos in comedy, and the absurd in the tragic, starting with Shirley Knight as Ned's equally compassionate, equally «idiot» mother, and working through Elizabeth Banks as the sister desperately trying to sell out to make good at the magazine where she toils while missing the cues from the neighbor (Adam Scott) who is willing to literally drop anything to do her household chores; Zooey Deschanel as the pan-sexual sister with truth issues that involve both her girlfriend (Rashida Jones) and the artist (Hugh Dancy) for whom she both poses and poses a problem; and Emily Mortimer, as the earth mother who lost track of what makes her happy and why she wanted to be married to a smug and profoundly disinterested husband (Steve Coogan).

Seth will reprise his voice role as the foul - mouthed teddy alongside Mark Wahlberg as owner and friend John Bennett in the follow - up to the 2012 comedy, which will start shooting in August.

The brisk comedy of the Hollywood section, helped along by John Goodman and Alan Arkin as the buddy - team responsible for making the ruse seem legit, evaporates once the action shifts to Iran and Affleck starts to ratchet up the suspense.

Propelled by the remarkable chemistry of stars Matthau and Glenda Jackson, and dynamically orchestrated by Neame from start to finish, the espionage comedy follows former CIA agent Miles Kendig (Matthau) as he hatches a plot to get back at the agency's top brass by publishing an explosive tell - all memoir.

It starts off as a heist comedy but then becomes a class satire, with Allen playing a working - class criminal who longs for wealth but distrusts the bourgeois culture that comes with it.