Sentences with phrase «unexpected as the comedy»

Make no mistake: This movie is as violent as it is funny, and its action sequences are as inventive and unexpected as the comedy beats.

Not exact matches

The encounter that follows will reveal unexpected depths in both characters, and new layers of moral complexity in Sean Baker's unmissable Tangerine, a sneaky slice - of - life indie that comes on all casual and cinéma - verité in the early scenes, then slowly coalesces into a romantic comedy as intricately constructed as any door - slamming stage farce.

The film's outcome hinges on a big race, with the circus» dancing horse as a contestant; this scene includes an unexpected moment of high comedy, at once relieving and compounding the tension!

Sally Potter's «The Party» is an atmospheric, rapid - fire dark comedy about a celebratory dinner party where unexpected revelations come as quickly as bon mots.

This 1980s - set Los Angeles comedy series stars Alison Brie (Mad Men, Community) as Ruth Wilder, an out - of - work actress who finds herself with the unexpected role of a lifetime after being invited to audition with a group of eccentric women for the first - ever women's wrestling TV show — GLOW.

Framed by a boisterous dinner scene between playwright friends, alarm bells ring early in Melinda and Melinda when conversation turns to whether a random scenario, the arrival of an unexpected stranger at a dinner party, would work best as the premise for tragic drama or comedy.

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

Official Premise: «Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)» is a black comedy that tells the story of an actor (Michael Keaton)-- famous for portraying an iconic superhero — as he struggles to mount a Broadway play.

Mistress America's generic context as screwball comedy frames Brooke's quarter - life crisis, and Tracy's coming of age, in a manner of unexpected honesty: behind the frenzied dialogue, so keenly written by Gerwig and Noah Baumbach, is the destruction of ambition and the construction of a self.

BIRDMAN: BIRDMAN or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance is a black comedy that tells the story of an actor (Michael Keaton)-- famous for portraying an iconic superhero — as he struggles to mount a Broadway play.

It is, of course, dark comedy, but it's comedy nonetheless, and it's about as far on the other side of the spectrum from No Country as they could get while still maintaining everything that is uniquely Coen: twists, unexpected carnage, and a cast that elevates a really good movie into being a really great movie.

The official synopsis: BIRDMAN or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance is a black comedy that tells the story of an actor (Michael Keaton)-- famous for portraying an iconic superhero — as he struggles to mount a Broadway play.

The film has the same unexpected, unabashed tenderness as SUPERBAD, but in the absolute last place anyone would ever think of looking: a fast - paced and extremely bloody crime comedy.

In «Toni Erdmann,» a very good and peculiar comedy from Germany's Maren Ade, a father subjects his high - strung adult daughter to a kind of unexpected — and clearly unwanted — shock therapy, using joke - shop fake teeth, a fright wig and a freakish sense of humor as tools of enlightenment.

This whip smart horror comedy from scribes Drew Goddard (also making his impressive directorial debut) and Joss Whedon features one of the most fiendishly unexpected plot turns in recent cinema in what I've frequently described to the uninitiated as «the Matrix meets the Monster Squad.»

BIRDMAN (aka The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) is a black comedy following the story of an actor (Michael Keaton)-- famous for portraying an iconic superhero — as he struggles to mount a Broadway play.

Scarlett Johansson is no stranger to the world of comedy — she is a member of the so - called Five - Timers Club, an enviable group of stars who have hosted «Saturday Night Live» at least five times — and she's managed to emerge as an unexpected comedic MVP without ever toplining an outright comedy.

Of course, that focus also turns out to be a problem for Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), but the film still works as a technically exciting, laser - focused comedy of dueling egos.

The comedy of their initial awkwardness gives way to drama as they break down each others» identities, followed by the uplift of their unexpected bonding.

But as you can imagine, a series of unexpected occurrences and misadventures spice things up, turning a potentially straightforward trip into an on - the - road buddy comedy where the bound - for - bonding odd couple are father and daughter.

BIRDMAN or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance is a black comedy that tells the story of an actor (Michael Keaton)-- famous for portraying an iconic superhero — as he struggles to mount a Broadway play.

Starring Jean - Claude Van Damme as the titular Jean - Claude Van Damme (alias Jean - Claude Van Johnson), this action comedy series sees the retired martial artist and actor sucked back into the game after an unexpected encounter with a lost love.

Notable group exhibitions include «The Importance of Being», Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Buenos Aires, Brazil (2015); «Contemporary Art in Dokolo Collection Sindika - You Love Me, You Love Me Not», Almeida Garrett Municipal Library, Porto, Portugal (2015); «The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Hell, Purgatory revisited by Contemporary African Artists», Frankfurt MMK, Frankfurt, Germany; touring to SCAD Museum of Art, Georgia, USA; Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, USA; Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; Correo Venezia, Venice; Hayward Gallery, London, England (2015 - 2014); «Slow Future», Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej Zamek, Poland (2014); «INSERT 2014: a cultural exploration of Delhi as a landscape for creativity and transformation», Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, India (2014); «Ruffneck Constructivists», ICA, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (2014); «The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Hell, Purgatory revisited by Contemporary African Artists», curated by Simon Njami, Frankfurt MMK, Frankfurt, Germany; travels to Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, USA; Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; Correo Venezia, Venice; Hayward Gallery, London, England (2014); «My Joburg», La Maison Rouge, Paris, France (2013); «Artificial Amsterdam», de Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2013); «Sex, Money and Power», Maison Particulière, Brussels, Belgium (2013); «The Progress of Love», The Menil Collection, Texas, USA (2013 - 2012); «Mexico: Expected / Unexpected», Katzen Arts Centre, Washington D.C., USA (2012); «No Government No Cry», a project by Kendell Geers, CIAP Actuele Kunst, Hasselt, Belgium (2011); «Contemplating the Void», Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA (2010) and «Wall Rockets: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha», The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA (2008).