Showing posts with label Comedy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Comedy. Show all posts

Sunday, September 25, 2016

Scrubs

TV-14
2001-2010
10 out of 10

Scrubs is an American medical comedy-drama television series created by Bill Lawrence that aired from October 2, 2001, to March 17, 2010, on NBC and later ABC. The series follows the lives of employees at the fictional Sacred Heart teaching hospital. The title is a play on surgical scrubs and a term for a low-ranking person because at the beginning of the series, most of the main characters were medical interns.

Shameless

TV-MA
2011-
9 out of 10

Shameless is an American comedy-drama television series on Showtime set in Chicago. It is a remake of the British series by the same name and is set in Chicago, although it is filmed in Los Angeles, with the exterior scenes shot in Chicago.

Sunday, July 12, 2015

Big Hero 6

PG
10 out of 10


Big Hero 6 is a 2014 American 3D computer-animated superhero comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures—the first Disney superhero film, inspired by the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name and directed by Don Hall and Chris Williams. Big Hero 6 is the first Disney animated film to feature Marvel Comics characters, whose parent company was acquired by The Walt Disney Company in 2009. Walt Disney Animation Studios created new software technology to produce the film's animated visuals. The film features the voices of Scott Adsit, Ryan Potter, Daniel Henney, T. J. Miller, Jamie Chung, Damon Wayans, Jr., Génesis Rodríguez, Alan Tudyk, James Cromwell, and Maya Rudolph.

Friday, June 26, 2015

Orange is the New Black

2013-
10 out of 10


Orange Is the New Black is an American comedy-drama series created by Jenji Kohan, creator of the Weeds, and produced by Tilted Productions in association with Lionsgate Television. The series is based on Piper Kerman's memoir, Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison. First released on Netflix on July 11, 2013, the series has received critical acclaim and earned 12 Primetime Emmy Award nominations for its first season.

The series stars Taylor Schilling, Laura Prepon, Michael J. Harney, Michelle Hurst, Kate Mulgrew, Jason Biggs, Uzo Aduba, Danielle Brooks, Natasha Lyonne, Taryn Manning, Selenis Leyva, Adrienne C. Moore, Dascha Polanco, Nick Sandow, Yael Stone, and Samira Wily. Available on Netflix or Amazon.

Thursday, June 25, 2015

Spaceballs

PG
9 out of 10


Spaceballs is a 1987 American parody film co-written and directed by Mel Brooks. The film stars Mel Brooks, Bill Pullman, John Candy and Rick Moranis. It also features Daphne Zuniga, Dick Van Patten, and the voice of Joan Rivers. It was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on June 24, 1987, and was met with a mixed reception. It later became a cult classic and one of Brooks's most popular films. Its plot and characters parody the original Star Wars trilogy, as well as other sci-fi franchises including Star Trek, Alien, and the Planet of the Apes films.

Saturday, November 1, 2014

The Guild

2007-2012 NR
10 out of 10


The Guild is a comedy web series about a group of online gamers. The series was created and written by Felicia Day, an avid gamer. The first season was solely supported by LOYAL FANS through Paypal, before Kickstarter was created. From seasons 2-5 the show was sponsored by Xbox in a groundbreaking web video deal that kept the show independently owned, and then ended its run on YouTube in 2012. The show originally premiered in episodes of 3-8 minutes each, which have been combined into 6 season movies, available on Netflix. There is also a Guild comic book series by Dark Horse. The series stars Felicia Day, Sandeep Parikh, Jeff Lewis, Vincent Caso, Amy Okudo, Robin Thornsen. Featured guest stars include Brent Spiner, Nathan Fillion and Stan Lee among others. The Guild has won numerous awards over the years, from SXSW, YouTube, and Yahoo. It is the recipient of over a dozen Streamy awards, and garnered several nominations for ‘Best Web Series” by the Producer’s Guild of America.

Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Chuck

PG 2007-2012
8 out of 10


Chuck is an American action-comedy/spy-drama television series created by Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak. Produced by College Hill Pictures, Fake Empire Productions, Wonderland Sound and Vision, and Warner Bros. Television, the series premiered on September 24, 2007, on NBC, airing on Monday nights at 8:00 p.m./7:00 p.m. Central. Chuck was at risk of being canceled after the second season but ended up ending after the fifth season.

Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Warm Bodies

PG-13
8 out of 10


Warm Bodies is considered a 2013 American paranormal romatic zombie comedy. The film stars Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer, Analeigh Tipton and John Malkovich. It is based on Isaac Marion's novel with the same name. Directed and written by Jonathan Levine. The film focuses on the development of the relationship between Julie (Palmer), a young woman, and "R" (Hoult), a zombie, and how their eventual romance develops throughout. The film is noted for displaying human characteristics in zombie characters, and for being told from a zombie's perspective.

Sunday, August 10, 2014

Men in Black 3

PG-13
9 out of 10

The third installment of the Men in Black series, starring Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones and Josh Brolin is a 2012 American science fiction action comedy film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld. MIB3 is based on Lowell Cunninham's The Men in Black comic book series published by Marvel and Malibu Comics. Men in Black 3 received generally positive reviews and was the highest grossing film in the series.