Sentences with phrase «which modern comedies»

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Most crucially, Segura got an original - comedy - special deal with Netflix, which is the modern - day equivalent of being asked to sit on Johnny Carson's couch after your set — a guaranteed career maker.

The film, which hits theaters February 16, is a modern twist on a romantic comedy (boy and girl meet, fall in love, but then break up, and are suddenly reunited, ending up in that awkward stage where they have to debate whether to wave hello while taking out the trash), but it's also a particularly female spin on the coming of age story, the likes of which we're only beginning to see onscreen as more women carve out a place for themselves in writer's rooms and director's chairs.

Even by modern day standards in which slapstick comedies aren't vogue, Chaplin manages to sell the most inane gags.

It's clear right from the get - go that director Alan Poul and screenwriter Kate Angelo aren't looking to reinvent the wheel here, as the movie initially comes off as an almost prototypical example of a modern romantic comedy - with the less - than - innovative atmosphere cemented by the proliferation of wisecracking characters and the protagonists» initial encounter (which essentially defines the term «meet - cute»).

Adam Sandler has made some of the rankest comedies in modern movies, and in a miserably divided world, that's one thing on which we can all agree.

I did not see the original «Hot Tub Time Machine», which was released in 2010, but a lot people did and many consider it a modern cult classic comedy.

If you've seen trailers for upcoming comedy Enchanted, in which fairy - tale characters plop down in modern New York, ready to burst into song, you get the picture.

The original, which featured Barbara Harris and a young Jodie Foster, has been tweaked into a high - class comedy of modern manners.

The 44 - year - old actress, who brought her son Manolo as her date, supported her show Modern Family, which is up for the Outstanding Comedy Series award this evening!

Unlike most other modern sex comedies, this one plays more toward older couples than it does to young men, which makes it a bit of a rare breed in this era of crass and sophomoric gags.

Actually, there's a very good article by A.O. Scott on the art of the pratfall in which he explains why some of the greatest modern comedy (from «Little Miss Sunshine» to «Borat») is of the well - executed physical variety.

It is also pleasing to see that in an age in which the romantic comedy is such an unfashionable genre in the cinema that filmmakers are, at least, attempting to go back to basics and call to mind a style of filmmaking in the screwball comedy that is all too rarely visible in the modern era.

Snow globes, dog - eared pop - up books, vintage advertising, silent cinema, Ealing comedies and the Spirit of ’45 all feed into the essence of the film, and King offers a dreamlike vision of London which mixes mid-century fervour with a modern embrace of cultural diversity.

It was a big night for Modern Family and Mad Men, which took the top Emmy Awards for Outstanding Comedy and Drama Series, respectively.

Sure, it's crude, episodic and half the jokes don't work, but «Christmas Vacation» may be the only modern Christmas comedy which really stands up to repeat viewings.

One of the film's most memorable aspects — and arguably the facet which helped to entrench itself within the annuls of modern comedy greats — is the work undertaken by the Max Fischer Players: Broadway - sized high school theatre reinterpretations of classic movies.

In a way, it's of a similar mindset to the crude romantic comedies which came out around 2000, especially any of the Farrelly Brothers films, which went for lowbrow laughs at the expense of some dim bulb characters, featuring a nonstop soundtrack of modern pop - rock hits, and with a sweetness underneath to try to make it seem cute in its own juvenile way.

Those not quite in tune may miss out on some of the gags, but may still enjoy the more modern comedy styles in other capacities, which is to throw in as much envelope - pushing vulgarity, F - bombs, and pop culture references as possible.

There's nothing new about many of the concerns of this anarchic comedy: the growing gulf between parents and their adult kids; the conflict between work and family; the alienating, dehumanizing nature of the modern workplace; the role of women in corporate culture; the economic direction in which modern Europe is heading.

The New Guy is a great example of the new - type of modern comedy in which a fairly mundane, straight - forward plot is coupled with genuinely bizarre, unrealistic jokes.

Ultimately, Meet the Parents is one of the funniest comedies I've seen since Annie Hall, a film with which it shares a wry sensibility about modern romance.

Part black comedy, part slasher flick, «Scream Queens» is a modern take on the classic whodunit, in which every character has a motive for murder... or could easily be the next blood - soaked casualty.»

Actually, there's a very good article by A.O. Scott on the art of the pratfall in which he explains why some of the greatest modern comedy (from «Little Miss Sunshine» to «Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan») is of the well - executed physical variety.

Running the gamut from the deeply moving to the darkly humorous, The Party puts an entirely modern spin on the traditional British comedy of manners; that it's filmed in black and white only adds to the stark intimacy which draws the viewer in.

An old - fashioned romantic comedy, reportedly inspired by a true story (although the real - life story had the waitress actually contribute in the picking of the Lotto numbers, which made the split winnings more believable), shows how difficult it is to make a Capra-esque movie in a modern setting.

It might be unfair to compare this aggressively average gross - out comedy — which sits in some depressing space between Trainwreck and Dirty Grandpa — to a classic modern comedy like Step Brothers.

Silent Movie is far from perfect, but it is a uniquely clever idea for a modern comedy, which is enough to merit a viewing, particularly for the biggest fans of any of the stars that make cameo appearances.

His films, which do not begin with finished screenplays but are «devised» by the director in collaboration with his actors, have always been about modern Britain — often about inarticulate, alienated, shy, hostile types, who are as psychologically awkward in his comedies as in his hard - edged work.

Willis energetically interprets the backbiting that dominates this modern screwball comedy in which the secret male lover of a professional basketball star finds himself on the outside after his lover marries a basketball groupie.

Buñuel's film is a comedy about the insanities of modern life, paralleling the themes of Cytter's works in which she conveys the perils and triumphs of contemporary life through alterations in conventions of narrative cinema.

Which is where the first note of comedy comes in — the apparent mismatch of modern money - makers with old master conventions.