Sentences with phrase «at black comedy»

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In an event Daley said «had overtones of comedy slapstick,» another black American runner — John Woodruff, who died last week at 92 — won the 800 meters by stopping dead in mid-race.

Over the weekend, Democratic candidate Nate McMurray tweeted that he had met Black at the Helium comedy club in Buffalo.

My favorites would have to be Band of outsiders for holding it at a comedy club I think that's a fun idea and would make a cool thing to watch.I also liked Pronounce I would so wear those clothes but in black of course, but my first fav would have to be KTZ as a punk in my youth yes I had a mowak I really liked the old school vibes in this collection.

Auckland has several legendary nights that make wonderful date ideas: in New Lynn try heading to the Black Salt Bar for Wednesday's rollicking quiz, in Grey Lynn opt for Malt Bar's comedy quiz on a Monday or, in Newton, try Tuesday night's music quiz at the King's Arms Tavern.

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Moran continues to perform at various international comedy festivals, and is known for his role as David in Shaun of the Dead, as well as a quirky bookshop owner in the popular British sitcom Black Books, which he also co-wrote.

Secondly the tone of this film varies hugely, at one point its a dumb black comedy type affair, then its a somewhat semi serious, dirty government type affair, then its trying to be a Bourne-esque kickassery type affair, then it hints at being a rom - com with cutesy dialog, and at times it can be a bit heartfelt.

At times, this feels like a slightly milder version of Peter Berg's generally reviled Very Bad Things, a 1998 black comedy also about a Las Vegas bachelor party gone grotesquely awry.

Probably more than any other filmmaker, his name evokes instant expectations on the part of audiences: at least two or three great chills (and a few more good ones), some striking black comedy, and an eccentric characterization or two in every one of the director's movies.Originally trained at a technical school, Hitchcock gravitated to movies through art courses and advertising, and by the mid -»20s he was making his first films.

You could almost imagine the two films, or at least their heroes, figuring in the kind of good - natured, racial - stereotype humor that used to be a staple of stand - up comedy (and was memorably parodied on «The Simpsons»): «white guys abolish slavery like this» (pass constitutional amendment); «but black guys, they abolish slavery like this» (blow up plantation).

The inbred lowlifes in this B - movie black comedy are members of the Smith family, a clan of troglodytes in a seedy Texas trailer park replete with vicious barking dogs on chains, who swing into ruthless high gear from the very first scene, when penny - ante drug dealer Chris Smith (a game turn by Emile Hirsch, who has grown from the appealing, open - faced kid in The Emperor's Club into a scabby, hirsute roughneck) arrives in a torrential rainstorm and is greeted at the screen door by his father's new wife Sharla with a female full - frontal.

Born in London and raised in Norwich, Norfolk, Harris studied at the Drama Centre in London and made his feature leading role debut in 2007's SAXON, a black comedy set in a London housing project.

The following year she had some success for her supporting role in Neil LaBute's remake of Frank Oz's black comedy Death at a Funeral, in which she co-starred with Danny Glover, Peter Dinklage, and Martin Lawrence, among others.

Moving beyond gentle, crowd - pleasing comedy, Williams co-starred with TV heartthrob Jason Priestley in the hitman black comedy Coldblooded (1995), played Emilio Estevez's sister in the Vietnam drama The War at Home (1996), and appeared in the TV version of the Neil Simon play Jake's Women (1995).

After landing the coveted «Discovery» award at this year's Toronto International Film Festival and being courted by distributors at a loss as to how, exactly, one goes about marketing a surreal, funhouse black comedy anymore, Aaron Woodley spoke to us by telephone fresh from an animating session on a new project while planning his sophomore feature, Blueberries.

Interspersed with these are green - tinted installments of a science - fiction side - story inspired by Flash Gordon (one iteration of which includes an apparent Star Wars parody — the Flash Gordon serials were among Ruiz's childhood favorites); a Columbo - inspired detective story set at a country manor; a black - and - white romantic costume drama; a touch of musical comedy; and a Western - style shootout inside the movie theater.

Jody Hill and Danny McBride «s evil, pitch - black and surprisingly soulful comedy series didn't leave much of an impression on pop culture at large when it debuted last year and that's a shame.

Unafraid to inhabit the ragged edges, she captures the black comedy that's at the core of this gritty independent drama, making audiences ache for more LaVona while keeping Rogers» original idea for the film intact.

Olivia also poked fun at the critically acclaimed black comedy I, Tonya starring Best Actress winner Margot Robbie, 27, as figure skater Tonya Harding.

Ana Lily Amirpour follows up her alt - cult sensation A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT with her sand - blasted, dystopian love story THE BAD BATCH; Maren Ade delivers what will be the most uncomfortable film of the festival, the desert - dry black comedy TONI ERDMANN; and Julia Ducournau's directorial debut, RAW, takes us on a cannibalistic coming - of - age shock ride that resonates long after its stunning finale.

Every bit as much a satire as it is a drearily honest and sobering look at our country's broken healthcare system, «Getting On» makes the typical black comedy seem lighthearted in comparison.

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Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

At the start, the sadistic / horrific black comedy is too thick and prolonged.

The hushed, claustrophobic ambience of high privilege and repressed feeling occasionally cracks, as this horror movie reveals itself also to be a rich, agonizing melodrama and a dry comedy of manners set in a fantasy Manhattan of crème caramel wainscoting and black - tie evenings at the opera.

This one, a kind of horrific black comedy of vengeance, directed and co-written by Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster), may not be exactly groundbreaking or original either, but at least it's done with high style, technical mastery and a singular, highly idiosyncratic vision.

The 21st century corollary to George Kaufman's maxim that «satire is what closes Saturday night» might well be that indie black comedies — which almost never make money but continue to attract name actors — are what play contractually mandated one - week runs at the Village East before heading off to DVD.

Alejandro G. Inarritu's black comedy Birdman was the big winner at the 2014 Gotham Independent Awards on Monday night, despite the fact that Richard Linklater's coming - of - age pic Boyhood topped the nominations with four.

Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe may be «The Nice Guys» in director Shane Black's new action - comedy, but the pair took every opportunity to needle each other at the Cannes press conference for the film Sunday.

Cast: Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Christopher Walken, Woody Harrelson, Tom Waits Program: Midnight Madness Headline: A night at the meta Noel's Take: It's awfully easy for a self - aware, super-violent black comedy to curdle, using its winking at the audience as a lazy justification for clichés and titillation.

The Savages are immanently likeable, Margot is barely human; where The Savages is a black comedy, Margot at the Wedding is a massacre.

â $ œWith Shank, Jamie Cheng, Jeff Agala, and the team at Klei Entertainment have delivered the game analog of the black comedy symphony of violence dominating today's indie film circuit, â $ said Jamil Moledina, Outreach Director at EA Partners.

Turns out that Entertainment Weekly released the first production photo for Ben Stiller «s summer comedy Tropic Thunder, and it features our first look at Robert Downey Jr. «s character Kirk Lazarus, who is a black man.

Critics, on the other hand, have been championing Issa Rae as a creative talent ever since her webseries Awkward Black Girl and there's a good chance they'll jump at the opportunity to award the show as a whole, especially since they chose another auteur-esque comedy last year, Master of None.

Stockholm, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 19, feels like such an irreverent black comedy that you wouldn't expect it to be based on real - life events.

Also enjoyed at Fantastic Fest was «Grand Piano» starring Elijah Wood (called «the best DePalma movie he never made»), and in Toronto, Catherine Breillat's «Abuse Of Weakness» and the black comedy «Don Hemmingway» starring a filthy and profane Jude Law and Richard E. Grant.

For proof that the Coens» masterpiece of black comedy has stood the test of time just look at the fact that nearly 20 years since its release we've had two seasons of a new TV series based on this wry story of small - town crime.

Featuring a blistering, Oscar - nominated performance from Peter O'Toole, Peter Medak's scathing black comedy satire The Ruling Class takes a caustic shot at British social structure, while creating a truly terrifying portrait of mental illness.

Actress Tracee Ellis Ross, winner of Best Performance in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy for «Black - ish,» poses in the press room during the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 8, 2017 in Beverly Hills, California.

We look at this month's films (according to UK release dates), which include Shane Black's detective buddy comedy The Nice Guys, Studio Ghibli's animated drama When Marnie Was There, and the Australian adaptation of Timothy Conigrave's memoir Holding the Man.

«Catfight» (Onur Tukel) Anne Heche and Sandra Oh literally go at it in this «black comedy.»

Letterboxed at 1.85:1, the transfer boasts near - perfect sharpness and seemingly accurate, evenly - saturated colours, but the image is too dark for a bubblegum comedy by a country mile, with detail often lost in a muck of deep browns and blacks.

We at FNB decided to mix it up a little and forgo «Notorious,» which I often liken to a glass of Veuve Clicquot, for the chance to see a 1956 Jean Gabin black comedy «La Traversée de Paris.»

a jet - black comedy about a music executive at the height of the Britpop era who will stop at nothing to further his career.

Some of the biggest black entertainers in comedy today who aren't Tyler Perry come together in Death at a Funeral, which African - Americanizes a 2007 British film directed by Frank Oz.

Sony's hard at work on a spinoff for their»90s sci - fi comedy film series Men in Black, but now it's looking a little more like a reunion for the stars of Thor: Ragnarok.

The first time Seth Shubin a.k.a. Veruca Bathsalts and Jerry Lee Abram were in a room together was at the Castro Theatre during a 2013 Sketchfest Peaches Christ tribute to «Welcome to the Dollhouse,» Todd Solondz's 1995 coming - of - age black comedy.

Nebraska Year: 2013 Director: Alexander Payne The first question at the Cannes press conference for Nebraska, the new film from Alexander Payne, was about why the director decided to shoot his comedy - drama in black and white.

It's an extremely edgy black comedy that chronicles the way Harding endured various forms of abuse and exploitation — from her mother (Allison Janney), her husband (Sebastian Stan), and tabloid media that covered and actively amplified the lurid story, set at the dawn of the Age of Truthiness.

The black comedy looks at the nine men and women who killed, or tried to kill, American presidents, from John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald.