Sentence examples for comic cinema from inspiring English sources

Nowhere is this inflation more evident than in current comic cinema.

Richard Pryor -- the profane Jackie Robinson of comic cinema -- was devoured and mainstreamed by Hollywood's makeover machinery.

Here, he evokes a classical comic cinema, that of the director as antic performer, starting with Max Linder and Charlie Chaplin, Erich von Stroheim and Orson Welles, Jacques Tati and Jerry Lewis — and the trope is apparent to his crew, who, in one of their production-office discussions, cite his theatrical nature and his efforts to explore his own multiple masks and identities.

In fact, you could say that the first hour of Iron Man -- which featured a great deal of Downey improv according to his Oscar-winning co-star Jeff Bridges -- was as perfect an hour of comic book cinema as you are likely to see.

The Bunnygraphs, as a genre, were representative of the cinema of the period, and were very successful, making Bunny the first American comic film star and Finch the first female star comedian.

Yet, if you have any interest in comic-strip cinema, you'll find something here to take your breath away.

"I no longer embody the Führer's image of Aryan perfection," sneers the Skull, looking like Lord Voldemort with a bad case of sunburn.Mr Johnston's stylish Captain America makes comic-book cinema a form of pop art.

Cavill, he said, "doesn't make heavy work of one of the biggest, toughest roles in comic-book cinema" but is overall "more solid than spectacular".

There have been two major trends that have worked in this era of comic-book cinema.

Wonder Woman is canonically bi in both comics and cinema, proving that obviously Amazons have the superior culture.

The silence has been broken: "Chaplin," a new musical about the life of the comic performer and cinema pioneer Charlie Chaplin, has found a Broadway home.