Sentences with phrase «thrillers as comic»

It would be a crime to spoil the surprises in a plot that owes as much to 1970s conspiracy thrillers as comic books.

Not exact matches

He proved ridiculously endearing as a grizzled, broken - down, beer - swilling little league coach with a marshmallow heart in The Bad News Bears (1976), and further expressed his comic persona in such comedies as 1993's Dennis the Menace, in which he played the cantankerous Mr. Wilson, and the romantic comedy I.Q. (1994), which cast him as Albert Einstein.Though many of his roles were of the comic variety, Matthau occasionally returned to his dramatic roots with ventures such as the crime thriller Charley Varrick (1973) and The Taking of Pelham 1, 2, 3 (1974).

In contrast to the tonally exploitative, post-9 / 11 catastrophe smut of the Avengers tentpoles, the former plays as a clever espionage thriller built on political intrigue, disguised as a comic book movie.

FROGS FOR SNAKES is a neo-noir comic thriller centering on the hopes and ambitions of a motley ensemble of New York theater actors, who moonlight as illegal money collectors.

The blackly comic vibe is both a boon and a bust, as it allows for a good deal of disbelief suspension when the storyline takes a turn to become a «rogue agent» thriller, but it also does severely undercut some of the emotional impact that could have been had when deaths begin to occur and we realize that none of these characters truly mean anything to us, despite the sympathetic build - up of many of them.

Like so many others, Christopher Nielsen's tale emulates some of the comic thrillers that have come out over the past decade, and in fact, it very much feels like an animated predecessor to Joe Carnahan's Smokin Aces, except with an elephant as the being that everyone is trying to get to.

«Snowden» (Oliver Stone) Comic - Con audiences already screened this thriller which features Joseph Gordon - Levitt as the controversial former NSA contractor who leaked government secrets before eventually finding a safe haven in Russia.

Although billed and marketed as a comedy, I feel the need to warn some viewers that The Ice Harvest is more of a thriller with dark comic touches rather than one that goes to tickle your funny bone.

Opening in September: Kirsten Dunst and Isla Fisher take a turn in the comic bridesmaid well in «Bachelorette» (Friday); Bradley Cooper is an author whose stolen work becomes a hit in «The Words» (Friday), a thriller co-starring Jeremy Irons and Dennis Quaid (see story on Page 17); Pixar adds another dimension to one of its most popular films in «Finding Nemo 3 - D» (Sept. 14); Milla Jovovich returns for one more zombie slaughter in «Resident Evil: Retribution» (Sept. 14); Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña are Los Angeles cops in «End of Watch» (Sept. 21), which aims for a realistic look at inner - city law enforcement; Elizabeth Shue and Jennifer Lawrence are mother and daughter, discovering a horror - tinged secret in «House at the End of the Street» (Sept. 21); Karl Urban plays «Dredd» (Sept. 21), a helmeted avenger who cleans up the futuristic Mega City as its judge, jury and (wait for it...) executioner; In the animated «Hotel Transylvania,» Dracula (voiced by Adam Sandler) struggles to cope with his daughter's new non-vampire love interest (Sept. 28).

Then, next year brings Chris Evans» Cap back for a story ripped from Ed Brubaker's comic book run about Bucky (Sebastian Stan) recovered, resurrected, brainwashed and augmented into lethal killer Winter Soldier for what is promised as a blend of spy thriller and World War II hero Steve Rogers continuing to find his place in the modern world.

Becoming a professional assassin as easy as pie when your dad was one, as James McAvoy's character discovers in this fun thriller starring Angelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman, and based on the comic book miniseries by Mark Millar.

Sophie Cookson, best known as Roxy in Matthew Vaughn's Kingsman films, who will join Adam Gillen, Steffan Rhodri and Neve McIntosh - along with the already cast Orlando Bloom - in Tracy Letts's noir comic thriller Killer Joe, which Simon Evans will direct at Trafalgar Studios from May 18.

Coming up is a reunion with Riseborough in James Marsh «s acclaimed Sundance thriller «Shadow Dancer» and as one of the villains in comic book tale «Dredd.»

If the very survival of poise in Lubitsch was always involved with simultaneously fueling and controlling the fires of emotion, in Edwards the impeccable precariousness of comic order often finds expression in thriller elements, as in a masterly post-credits robbery sequence that is tense, fascinating, as beautifully machined as the fantastic caper itself — and funny too, in a thoroughly distinctive alliance of the giddiness inherent in breathbating suspense and the melodramatic effectiveness of slapstick violence.

Calvary — a darkly comic thriller that reunites writer - director John Michael McDonagh and actor Brendan Gleeson has been unveiled as the opening gala for the 2014 Jameson Dublin International Film Festival.

In the comic thriller Charade, Hepburn stars opposite Cary Grant (25 years her senior) as a bewildered innocent pursued by an array of extremely nasty villains.

Nightcrawler shines as a character study, a mood piece, and a crime thriller, but perhaps its greatest victory is as a darkly comic satire of the lengths to which we are told to go to succeed in America.

Since then he's assembled an award - winning and critically acclaimed resume with the 1995 crime - thriller classic, The Usual Suspects, which won Academy Awards for best original screenplay and best supporting actor, as well as the seminal comic - book films X-Men (2000) and X2 (2003).

Every so often a certain film genre will suddenly begin to pick up speed without much warning, whether that be a huge increase like with the Marvel and DC comic book universes or more low - key ones such as political and cyber thrillers.

illustrates Haneke's point by attempting to palm this intellectual distress - machine as a darkly comic thriller.

This stand - alone thriller combines high - octane suspense with comic capering, as two married couples — one a PI team, the other a hit couple for hire — spar with one another until they both find themselves in the crosshairs of a gang of Russian jewel thieves.

It's not a legal thriller so much as a long, comic, intricate shaggy dog story, the story of a man's whole life, which just happens to wrap itself around and around questions of the law.

«Containing elements of the 007 and Jason Bourne sagas, Graham Greene's insular spy novels, William Gibson's cyber thrillers, TV's Burn Notice and Mad magazine's classic Spy vs. Spy comic strip, this book is a narrative hall of mirrors in which nothing and no one are as they seem and emotion is a perilous thing to have.»