| Why do we like comedy so much? | | Posted Sunday, January 29, 2006 12:54:55 PM by Alex Molin | Not all of us can write good comedies, or even jokes. Humor and the ability to create humor is something you are born with. How ever, most people enjoy comedy, jokes and other forms of humor.
The nice thing about humor in general and comedy in specific is that this genre allows people to watch movies or listen to things that they wouldn't otherwise.
So in fact comedy is a kind of blessing in our lives. One of the best comedy movies is "American Pie".
Four high school friends (Jim, Kevin, Finch, and Oz) are trying to find ways to lose their collective virginity before college.
What seems to be easy is really not. There competition is worming up just before the senior prom which is their last best chance.
The top comedy movie became a serial movie with American Pie 2.
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| | | Inflatable Theatre Excites All | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 11:33:59 AM by Blog57 Team | | Disney's Pixar movies, like "Finding Nemo" and "Toy Story," are so popular because they appeal to all types of crowds. Children love the physical comedy and silly humor, parents laugh at the witty jokes and young adults enjoy the movies because they are simply cool. While Pixar may be the pros of appealing to the masses on the big screen, Fred Garbo achieves the same universal appeal on the live stage. This Sunday afternoon, Fred Garbo performed two shows at the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts. Prior to the show, the Jorgensen lobby did not share the same atmosphere as the majority of its previous events. Gangs of children were scattered all around; there were siblings wearing matching pajamas, toddlers wandering away from their parents and even kids cruising around the lobby with their Heelys.... | |
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| | | It's the year of Black comedy | | Posted Saturday, October 21, 2006 3:02:27 PM by Blog57 Team | | Known for his finger-pointing political rants on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" and several top-rated network specials, Lewis Black seems to speak in CAPITAL LETTERS. He doesn't discriminate with his take-no-prisoners humor: Republicans, Democrats and almost all authority figures are the objects of his ire. He'll bring his nonpartisan wrath to town Thursday when his "Red, White & Screwed" tour visits the Louisville Palace. It's been a whirlwind year for Black. He's currently onscreen with Robin Williams in Barry Levinson's "Man of the Year" and he appears in the holiday comedy "Unaccompanied Minors," due out on Dec. 8. Black was also in two other movies this year -- "Accepted" and "Farce of the Penguins." .... | |
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| | | Smith brightens dark comedy of 'Keeping Mum' | | Posted Friday, September 29, 2006 7:06:34 PM by Blog57 Team | | Any movie featuring Maggie Smith automatically is worth seeing. The two-time Oscar winner ("The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie," "California Suite") shines bright in great movies and elevates the mediocre ones. "Keeping Mum" falls more into the latter category, but Smith, along with the rest of the cast, rises above and turns the thinly scripted dark comedy into an amusing and enjoyable British romp. Smith plays Grace Hawkins, a kindly old woman who shows up at the Goodfellow home in rural England just in the nick of time. The Rev. Walter Goodfellow (Rowan Atkinson) is a preoccupied vicar in the tiny village of Little Wallop (population 57). His wife, Gloria (Kristin Scott Thomas), is so tired, bored and undersexed that she lowers herself to an occasional snog with her hunky American golf instructor.... | |
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| | | Fall films | | Posted Saturday, September 02, 2006 6:02:31 PM by Blog57 Team | | Movies released during the fall are often serious films that turn out to be award-winners. But the movie I'm looking forward to isn't a literary drama or an emotional story with political relevance -- you know, the sort that wins Oscars. Nope, the movie I most want to see is "For Your Consideration," the latest improvisational comedy directed by Christopher Guest of "Best in Show" and "Waiting for Guffman." .... | |
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| | | 'Miss Sunshine' ticket sales rise, bucking trend | | Posted Tuesday, August 29, 2006 3:08:54 PM by Blog57 Team | | LOS ANGELES, Aug 28 (Reuters) - While most film studios fret over falling ticket sales for movies in their first month at the box office, backers of "Little Miss Sunshine" on Monday were cheering the unlikely rise of their independent comedy. "Little Miss Sunshine," a low-budget movie about the nature of winners and losers, reached No. 3 at U.S. and Canadian box offices with a tally of $7.5 million this past weekend, the fourth since it debuted in only seven theaters on July 25. It was behind No. 2 "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby," a Sony Pictures comedy starring Will Ferrell, and No. 1 "Invincible," a Disney football movie with Mark Wahlberg. But the box office for "Talladega" is declining (42 percent last weekend) which is typical of a big budget summer movie, and "Invincible" was in its first week in theaters.... | |
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| | | Searching For Heroes At The Movies | | Posted Saturday, August 12, 2006 9:04:07 AM by Blog57 Team | | Rarely these days do you see a movie that would make John Wayne proud. In an age of moral equivalence, heroes at the movies have become hard to find. "World Trade Center" is a good film because it stirs the hero inside each of us. No matter what you may think of Oliver Stone, his new film is a rare and honest salute to family, honor, duty, patriotism, and religious faith. It is as good a film as I have ever seen. Hey, I'm a movie buff. I love to be inspired by a good movie. Today's movies, however, have been lacking inspiration. Too often, I seem to be leaving the theater wondering why I still go to them. About the only genre of film Hollywood can still make well is the boy meets girl romantic comedy. Though the actors are different, the story line of these movies is generally the same as they were in the days of Rock Hudson and Doris Day.... | |
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| | | `Talladega Nights' Opens at No. 1 With $47 Million (Update1) | | Posted Monday, August 07, 2006 11:10:34 AM by Blog57 Team | | Aug. 6 (Bloomberg) -- The Will Ferrell comedy ``Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby'' opened as the top movie in U.S. and Canadian theaters with an estimated $47 million in ticket sales. The Sony Corp. film, starring Ferrell as a champion Nascar driver who has lost his confidence, toppled Universal Pictures' crime thriller ``Miami Vice'' from the No. 1 spot, box-office tracker Exhibitor Relations Co. said today in a statement. ```Talladega Nights' has everything going for it: a great star whose name is synonymous with comedy, a great concept that appeals across the board to Nascar fans, young and old, and men and women,'' said Exhibitor Relations President Paul Dergarabedian. ``That's a terrific opening weekend. It performed beyond expectations.'' The appeal provided a boost to the studio, which was ranked fifth in 2006 tickets sales with $587.5 million as of July 30.... | |
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| | | 60 SECONDS: Vince Vaughn | | Posted Friday, July 21, 2006 1:04:18 PM by Blog57 Team | | Actor Vince Vaughn got his big break in the 1996 film Swingers, then went on to appear in The Lost World: Jurassic Park, The Cell and the 1998 remake of Psycho. More recently, he has become known for comedies such as Dodgeball and Wedding Crashers. It's rumoured he is dating Jennifer Aniston, who stars with him in The Break-Up, which he also produced. .... | |
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| | | On Movies | 'Electric Car' an obituary and an indictment | | Posted Monday, July 17, 2006 3:01:43 AM by Blog57 Team | | Most times, a director and his star meet up at the urging of an agent, or a studio. In the case of Chris Paine and Chelsea Sexton, the filmmaker and his leading lady were introduced when she leased him an automobile. Paine is the documentarian behind Who Killed the Electric Car?, a fascinating and frustrating true-life tale of scientific innovation, green engineering, and corporate knuckleheadedness. Knuckleheadedness and perhaps something more sinister. The movie opens Friday at the Ritz Theaters. Sexton is one of the film's heroes - a sunny Los Angeleno, who, from 1996 to 2001, worked for General Motors' EV1 electric-vehicle program, happily singing the praises of a car that required no gas, no oil changes, no mufflers, and hardly any maintenance. It handled like a racing machine; it signaled an end to smog.... | |
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