comic

Shot on a handheld digital camera, the film applies an anarchic home-movie aesthetic to a superbly performed, discomfitingly comic drama of darkness within a family.

Her frown deepens as she sidesteps open comic books and half-eaten granola bars.

Simon made a comic show of being capsized, but as he had often proved, he had sea legs enough to weather storms far worse than this.

Overseas sales of Japanese content, such as anime, comics, video games, film and music, now generate export value comparable to Japan’s steel and semiconductor industries, underscoring how soft power has become a significant national asset.

On “Your Show of Shows” and other sketch programs, Sid Caesar mined a comic vein that seemed, in its time, inexhaustible.