Sentences with phrase «black comedy about»
Hari Kunzru discusses his first novel, The Impressionist, a black comedy about race and identity, that partially developed from his own experience as a child of an Indian father and English mother.
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- The Scotsman «A black comedy about the unreliability of memory and the warped values of modern publishing.
It's a black comedy about a demonic doctor offering bizarre treatments to his patients, and is the first offering from the Millsverse, which is the new imprint from Pat Mills.
A black comedy about white trash In this cult classic comedy from writer - director Del Shores, a gay West Hollywood acto...
Director Sidney Lumet and writer Paddy Chayefsky, equally mad as hell, used their black comedy about a raggedy fourth TV network to denounce the... [Read more...]
And this one, a black comedy about a pair of grave robbers who pulled up supernatural corpses, looked pretty good.
His first was The Cars that Ate Paris, a black comedy about an outback community using tricked - out murder vehicles to off tourists from the city — five years before George Miller would tread similar territory with Mad Max.
His childlike tantrums at every turn as the kidnapping keeps going wrong make his scenes seem like they're from a slapstick black comedy about an incompetent serial killer.
Mad Men star John Slattery makes his directorial debut with a brash, black comedy about a blue - collar neighbourhood
Two indie It girls are teaming up in the frenzied trailer for Thoroughbreds, a black comedy about wealthy childhood friends with killer instincts.
In the tradition of the Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Gold looks to be a hard hitting black comedy about plundering resources.
The Joel Ashton McCarthy - directed short is a pitch - black comedy about Vivian (Alex Duncan), a lonely serial killer whose three loves in life are math, accounting, and killing random people.
It's a sulphurous black comedy about backstairs Kremlin intrigue following the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953 — adapted by Iannucci, David Schneider and Ian Martin from the French graphic novel series by Fabien Nury and Thierry Robin.
Writer - director Dan Gilroy made one of the most dazzling debuts in years with 2014's Nightcrawler, a deliciously soulless black comedy about a TV bottom - feeder (Jake Gyllenhaal) who rises in power the more vicious he becomes.
Martin McDonagh's In Bruges - the 2008 black comedy about two hit men holed up in a pretty little hotel in a pretty little town in pretty little Belgium - was an inspired and nutty fish - out - of - water noir.
Charlie Chaplin plays shockingly against type in his most controversial film, a brilliant and bleak black comedy about money, marriage, and murder.
Trying to force what should be a black comedy about the weekend from hell into broad - comedy appeal is simply going against your movie's DNA, and audiences aren't stupid.
It's way too easy to draw a parallel between bittersweet chocolate and this German director's exquisite new film, Toni Erdmann, a black comedy about a stressed - out corporate exec, Ines (Sandra Hüller), and her practical joker of a father, Winfried (Peter Simonischek), who — disguised as a false - toothed life coach named Toni Erdmann — attempts a desperate intervention to save her soul.
The original black comedy about suicide, it is, in fact, an incredibly positive, joyous and life affirming film.
Michael Keaton — wonderfully wired as always — stars in this black comedy about celebrity and showbusiness.
You've got to have a pretty serious pair of stones to make a black comedy about Russian politics at a time when America's relationship with the Kremlin has reached a critical mass of contentiousness.
They just produced together I, Tonya, the Craig Gillespie - directed black comedy about the rise and fall of Olympic figure skater Tonya Harding that will be released next month by 30WEST and NEON after becoming the biggest sale at the Toronto Film Festival.
See Me is a black comedy about being stuck.
A black comedy about a man who dreams of being a reality tv contestant, the French / Italian co-production Reality (directed by Matteo Garrone) has attracted rave reviews at a lot of 2012's film festivals, including a Grand Prix win at Cannes, though it's yet to see a wide release in English - speaking territories.
The Party: Director Sally Potter's black comedy about an intimate gathering of friends that goes haywire when an unexpected announcement sets off a chain reaction exposing secrets, sex, and betrayal.
a jet - black comedy about a music executive at the height of the Britpop era who will stop at nothing to further his career.
His new series, Mary Kills People, a black comedy about the controversial practice of euthanasia, is something very different.
He seemed to be moving towards a more personal cinema (there were autobiographical elements in The Hairdress's Husband), but now with Tango (15) he has done something of a U-turn, with a selfconsciously outrageous black comedy about what used to be called «the sex war», before anybody had given the subject much thought.
The Bridge boasts both emerging writers and big names: book in for Barney Norris's rural drama Nightfall, from 28 April, and Martin McDonagh's black comedy about Hans Christian Andersen, A Very Very Very Dark Matter, from 10 October.
Martin McDonagh's Oscar - winning black comedy about a train journey where an older man (Brendan Gleeson), whose wife has died that morning
It varied from broad comedy with Hugh Travers» The Players, a black comedy about ex-IRA members who join an amateur drama group; to Anne Marie Casey and Joseph O'Connor's biopic Grace 1916, the story of Grace Gifford, an artist and icon of a revolution; Jasmina Kallay's alternate history Das Irland that asks the question «what if promised German help had materialised in 1916?»
Not only can you be the first in Chicago to see this pitch - black comedy about corrupt cops but you can ask questions of star and Chicago native Michael Peña («Ant - Man») when it's over.
When I first heard that polarizing writer - director Todd Solondz was making WIENER - DOG, a pitch - black comedy about a magical dachshund that touches the lives of many, I was thrilled.
A brutal, Faulkner - influenced black comedy about tumultuous relationships and dogs, Amores Perros is structured as a trilogy, building to a reserved finish of real staying power.
He set out to make a black comedy about the Iraq war and ended up with a film about Trump.
A garish, Southwestern tale — a violent black comedy about a desperate Texas debtor (Hirsch) who plots to kill his mother with help of his family (Haden Church, Gershon).
A plangent black comedy about the escalating hysteria in a disintegrating rehab commune.»
Prevenge Sightseers and Adult Life Skills star Alice Lowe makes her directorial debut in this black comedy about a pregnant woman out for revenge.
Director Craig Gillespie deftly combines Harding's dramatic story — about class, physical abuse and fierce determination — with black comedy about celebrity and about the bumbling attack on Kerrigan.
Tropic Thunder (2008) featured several trailers, including The Fatties: Fart 2 which was a Jack Black comedy about obesity, farts and burps.
Marco Ferreri's 1973 black comedy about four middle - aged men who decide to eat themselves to death.
A black comedy about a foul - mouthed police sergeant who may just be the best cop in Ireland... or the worst.
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) rarely knows what to do with comedies, so it's no surprise that Don Roos» insanely black comedy about a pregnant runaway (Christina Ricci, deserving of a Best Actress nomination) conning everyone in her path, including a guileless bisexual (Ivan Sergei) and her gay half - brother Bill (Martin Donovan, Supporting Actor - worthy for sure), never registered with them.
Joey Travolta and Jeff Conaway star in this black comedy about Geno, a talentless lounge singer whose career is going nowhere.
Hospital is a black comedy about a bitter, suicidal doctor (George C. Scott) whose hospital is being destroyed by the murders of several staff members, as well as the staff's own ineptness.
Matthew Perry is very funny in this black comedy about a dentist whose wife hires a hit man to kill him.
For the most part, the movie is really a black comedy about Los Angeles - style self - obsession spiced with sudden drug interludes that jar you for a minute, then fade from memory as we head on to the next (occasionally facile) showbiz send - up.
Perhaps the more astonishing thing is that this movie is a black comedy about domestic violence, parental abuse, and low self - esteem... and it works.
If you find yourself in the mood for a black comedy about a guy who is definitely worse off than you are right now, The Husband is that guy.
«To the Bone» Marti Noxon, a longtime symbol of female empowerment in TV for her work on «Buffy the Vampire Slayer» and «UnREAL,» makes her feature directorial debut with a pitch - black comedy about her own struggle with anorexia.