Sentences with phrase «than a comedy with»

The movie works better than any comedy with this many nosebleeds has a right to.

As discussed above, The Interview looks more like an espionage thriller than a comedy with its dark, contrasty visuals.

Not exact matches

It will own a vast distribution apparatus; have the rights to more comedy programs than most of its competitors; and be producing much of the material they need to do battle with one another — as well as, inevitably, with Dynamics itself.

Advertisers are likely to stick with proven strategies, such as comedy or positive emotions rather than controversies such as athletes kneeling during the National Anthem, marketing experts said.

The model for other studios to follow here would seem to be to, first, test your potential audience with more than just a vague idea and then deliver a product that is both true to its source material while also offering something beyond what viewers have already come to expect from typical superheroes (in this case, that would be the comedy, sex, and violence).

Meanwhile on the TV side, the site TorrentFreak found that for the third year running, HBO's Game of Thrones is the most pirated program of 2014 with more than 8 million downloads from BitTorrent, followed by AMC's The Walking Dead (4.2 million), and CBS's The Big Bang Theory (3.6 million), the consistently most watched cable drama and network comedy.

Kik offers richer engagement than you'd get on a broadcast - based platform like Facebook or Twitter — the comedy video website Funny or Die, for example, has had conversations with 1.5 million chatters on Kik, and users send an average of seven messages to a brand per chat.

Burnie Burns, cofounder of Austin - based Rooster Teeth, a production company with 300 - plus staffers that produced the made - for - YouTube sci - fi comedy Lazer Team and its upcoming sequel, still remembers being dumbstruck almost a decade ago, when Rooster Teeth consisted of little more than a handful of friends, by what the service offered: «They completely changed the game in terms of the ability to monetize video with pre-roll advertising.

Sacha Baron Cohen raised more than a few eyebrows (and lawsuits) with his comedy / social experiment, Borat.

It's the lying and deception that can destroy trust in these situations more than almost anything else, and the second episode even makes it a point to try and get that across through slapstick humor, until it ditches that initial argument altogether and starts becoming a wacky comedy in full with all of the usual trappings.

The rituals of comedy deal with more than the superficial arenas of human conflict.

And it is worth noting that Kierkegaard's theory of comedy — at least as Oden has explicated it — is far easier to reconcile with Hamann's writings than with Kierkegaard's.

The trouble with many conventional pictures of heaven is that they describe eternal life as a vapid and self - centered perpetual enjoyment rather than, as in Dante's Divine Comedy, a rejoicing in the vision of God.

Would there were a poet who might resolve to prefer such situations, rather than the stuff and nonsense with which comedies and novels are filled!

Since he's taken over as host of The Late Show, Colbert has landed some serious interviews with presidential hopefuls and leaders, showing a much more thoughtful side than in his Comedy Central days.

(Though it should be noted that at times the story is funny and satirical, with hapless characters who seem more suited for a Shakespearean comedy than the Bible.

When «Blue Collar Comedy Tour» premiered on Comedy Central, it was the highest rated movie in the channel's history and the soundtrack has been RIAA certified gold with more than 500,000 units sold.

But, since this is a comedy, there will be more than one instance of mistaken identity in this Italian production with English projections, as well as music to send your heart soaring.

The cast is superb: Malkovich as the analyst Cox shows a true flair for comedy, Clooney is on top form here as the sleaze whose life intersects with Litzke almost by accident and Brad Pitt, playing a much younger man than his true age, is brilliantly idiotic and brainless.

The new 37,000 square foot, $ 50 million facility tells the story of comedy from its origins through the present, with more than 50 immersive, interactive exhibits.

As it turned out, the participants who had a good laugh at the comedy routine shared much more intimate information with their peers than the groups who watched the other videos.

Paired with a 500 - calorie meal, comedy appeared to correlate with more stable blood glucose and insulin — both potential barriers to fat loss — than a lecture.

I have been pretty swamped focusing on building up my social consulting business + designing a new site for it (stay tuned... I am perfecting the design hehe), being a boss lady ain't easy... let me tell ya haha However, one of my highlights of the long Labor Day Weekend (other than the amazing sales) was being able to meet up with some of my blogger friends — I have been out of commission for a little bit since I've been drowning in work + the blog, but heading to a comedy show + some brunch was the perfect way to catch up with some of my favorite gals!

Having just wrapped up a comedy tour with his friends and co-workers, Markiplier has aspirations bigger than just YouTube.

With the festive season in full swing, what better way to catch a breather than spending an evening on the sofa watching a romantic comedy?

With more than 35 million visitors in 2006 and 75,000 new users registering each day, AFF ranks among the 100 most popular sites in the U.S.A.. It's become so mainstream that a joke about it appeared in the Diane Keaton and Mandy Moore romantic comedy, Because I Said So.

With the festive season in full swing, what better way to catch a breather than spending an evening on the sofa watching a romantic comedy film!

The regrettably titled From Prada to Nada has more in common with a slapped - together TV movie than a timeless comedy of manners.

While it's not a perfect comedy, and more than a little uneven, I still laughed my ass off through most of the film, and probably had more honest laughs here than I did with THE HANGOVER 2.

What comedy film would have you glued to your chair and to the point of tears at the end of its film with nothing more than a speech?

I went in this movie expecting a cheap slasher horror film, but I was having high expectations, because it has been announced in development since 2009, what I got was way too more in depth than I was barging for, this movie can't be reviewed without spoiling it, what I have to say is... SEE THE CABIN IN THE WOODS, it is different dark comedy with mystery and great visuals (hint) SEE THIS MOVIE.

This turns out to be none other than Agis, with whom, on first sight, she's fallen head over heels, propelling her through the strategems that is the material of the kind of comedy of intrigue and missteps that was the mainstay of legitimate theatre in 1732.

What an elctric performance and with the dialogue this movie is more of a comedy than an action or fantasy movie.

With its title tongue - in - cheekily evoking «I, Claudius,» another epic tale of madness and debauchery, the dramatic comedy «I, Tonya» revisits — with verve, intelligence, scathing humor and more than a touch of sadness — the bizarre 1994 attack on figure skater Nancy Kerrigan by goons associated with the camp of Kerrigan's athletic rival, Tonya HardWith its title tongue - in - cheekily evoking «I, Claudius,» another epic tale of madness and debauchery, the dramatic comedy «I, Tonya» revisits — with verve, intelligence, scathing humor and more than a touch of sadness — the bizarre 1994 attack on figure skater Nancy Kerrigan by goons associated with the camp of Kerrigan's athletic rival, Tonya Hardwith verve, intelligence, scathing humor and more than a touch of sadness — the bizarre 1994 attack on figure skater Nancy Kerrigan by goons associated with the camp of Kerrigan's athletic rival, Tonya Hardwith the camp of Kerrigan's athletic rival, Tonya Harding.

Confidently cinematic in classical and modern terms, layered with subtleties but also a straight - ahead, crowd - pleasing comedy, with more witty lines and bits of visual imagination than a dozen regular movies, O Brother is where thou shouldst be.

«Just Go with It» has major problems with its lack of wit and exhausted repeated jokes, but thankfully, Aniston's performance is able to boost up the comedy in the film; adding to an amount that ranks higher than many other films that try the same formula of comedy as of this film With Sandler's and Aniston's connection being believable, «Just Go with It» manages to hit the mark for several adults and teens to enwith It» has major problems with its lack of wit and exhausted repeated jokes, but thankfully, Aniston's performance is able to boost up the comedy in the film; adding to an amount that ranks higher than many other films that try the same formula of comedy as of this film With Sandler's and Aniston's connection being believable, «Just Go with It» manages to hit the mark for several adults and teens to enwith its lack of wit and exhausted repeated jokes, but thankfully, Aniston's performance is able to boost up the comedy in the film; adding to an amount that ranks higher than many other films that try the same formula of comedy as of this film With Sandler's and Aniston's connection being believable, «Just Go with It» manages to hit the mark for several adults and teens to enWith Sandler's and Aniston's connection being believable, «Just Go with It» manages to hit the mark for several adults and teens to enwith It» manages to hit the mark for several adults and teens to enjoy.

Recycling is alive but not well in the outmoded teen comedy Dirty Deeds, with a result that is more toxic than intoxicating.

It all ends in tears, with Meg throwing over Robert for Darlington and Tuppy throwing over Mrs. Erlynne, a less than madcap comedy of errors straightened out when everyone does the right thing, finally.

Aliens offer a cure for earthling ennui in From Other Worlds, a limp sci - fi comedy with fewer laughs than a meeting of Abductees Anonymous.

A dweeby and unenchanting concoction as romantic comedies go, Mark Decena's debut feature also juggles enough storylines to fill five or six movies in barely 80 minutes of screen time, ending up with a whole distinctly less than the sum of its parts.

Specializing in playing shambling, cantankerous cynics, Walter Matthau, with his jowly features, slightly stooped posture, and seedy, rumpled demeanor, looked as if he would be more at home as a laborer or small - time insurance salesman than as a popular movie star equally adept at drama and comedy.

It's a flimsy sentimental comedy with more product plugs and fewer laughs than might have been hoped for.

Boasting a marquee team - up with an entertainment value that proves more sorrier than starrier for filmgoers, A Walk in the Woods offers a near bust of a buddy comedy and little else.

Richard Curtis's comedy is anchored only in exuberance, but that's more than you can say for most movies these days; it keeps you beaming with pleasure.

The affable vibe subsequently persists for the bulk of the movie's 95 minute running time, to be sure, and yet it's increasingly clear that Peter Rabbit has, for the most part, been designed to appeal primarily to small children - with this vibe never more obvious than in its larger - than - life, physical - comedy - heavy midsection.

The rest of the time, this tone - deaf comedy invites more cringing than laughter with its dorky depictions ringing false and yet wanting to be taken seriously for an excessive nearly two - hour runtime.

The following year, Garofalo appeared in no less than five films, with a supporting part in the ensemble piece 200 Cigarettes, a starring role as an unconventional action heroine called the Bowler in Mystery Men (which also featured Stiller), and prominent turns in Kevin Smith's eagerly awaited Dogma, Hampton Fancher's psychological thriller The Minus Man, and the satirical comedy Can't Stop Dancing, in which she acted alongside fellow comedienne Margaret Cho.In 2001, Garofolo took on the role of Catherine Connolly in The Laramie Project, HBO's docudrama chronicling the aftermath of the death of Matthew Shepard, and filmmaker David Wain's comedy Wet Hot American Summer.

In 2000 alone, she could be seen in no less than four films, including the action comedy The Crew, Red Planet, and as a bartender with questionable motives in director Christopher Nolan's unconventional breakthrough, Memento.

«Baywatch» was a regular movie, where his return was not so triumphant, the performances were regular, the plot a bit absurd, and it causes me more stupor that Zac Efron continues to star in comedy movies with rude jokes, but what saves are Cameos of the old characters, but by God, as Pam Anderson ruined, and more than invited her to that movie, it's a damn roll.

Writer - director Jeff Lowell could have gone many different ways with this idea — the screwball comedy of Heaven Can Wait, say, or even the wistful, unabashed romanticism of Ghost — but he takes the low road more often than not.