Sentences with phrase «at black humor»

This is all of a piece with the director's inability to maintain a consistent tone throughout the film, which veers from reality to fantasy to occasional stabs at black humor.

Not exact matches

Zender is brilliant at taking apart the «hell» thing with his over the top black humor.
Garcia's ignorant attempt at humor during Tuesday night's black - tie affair was as wide of the mark as the two balls he dumped into the water at No. 17 at Sawgrass in Sunday's finale of the Players.
CATHIE CLOWN: New Chancellor Cathie Black's off - color attempts at humor only angered parents at a meeting with school officials.
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Well here goes I'm 35 I have long black hair n brown eyes.I am Italian n Cherokee Indian, what a combo but a beautiful combo!I have tan skin and great curves in just the right places.I think highly of myself very confident.I have a great sense of humor love to laugh, at myself and others.Laughter...
Synopsis: A campus culture war between blacks and whites at a predominantly white school comes to a head when the staff of a humor magazine stages an offensive Halloween party.
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With solid actors, good writing, vibrant costume work, a terrific score from Coogler - regular Ludwig Goransson (Central Intelligence, Stretch), humor that's delivered with refreshing subtlety, and Coogler's taut pacing that also takes the time to build up its scenarios, Black Panther succeeds at delivering an unlikely solo effort in the superhero genre, and leaves skeptics and those completely unaware of the characters within the comic books hungry for more.
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).
Wasteland 2 might be daunting to newcomers, then, but its a sequel that successfully captures the strategic depth and black humor of the original... Brian Fargo and his team at InXile have delivered a quintessential role - playing experience with infinite possibilities.
In other hands, a zombie movie is just a zombie movie, but Land of the Dead, a horror film laced with rife with social commentary, political satire, and black humor, is not just a return to the genre he practically single - handedly created (or at least definitively redefined), but a return to form.
Cemetery Man is campy at times, there's lots of old school gore, black humor, murder sprees, a supernatural reoccurring love story, odd characters and shifts in tone (the first half is VERY different from the latter half).
With its dark humor and complicated characters and themes — a mother out to avenge her daughter's rape and murder, a suggestion of police brutality against black residents — «Three Billboards» made an early splash with critics and audiences at the Venice Film Festival in September and then at the Toronto International Film Festival in October, where it won the audience award and was hailed by some as one of the year's best.
To me, it was dark, pitch black humor like Fargo or Wolf of Wall Street, both of which were also nominated as comedies at the Globes.
T'Challa's sibling relationship with Shuri provides Black Panther with much - needed doses of humor and humanity, while his complicated relationship with Nakia (she favors engagement with the outside world), hints at his emotional vulnerability, a welcome trait in a character born to wealth, privilege, and power.
The pervasiveness of technology is at the forefront of the new film Creative Control, whose star, co-writer and director Benjamin Dickinson utilizes black - and - white cinematography and dry humor to satirize our overreliance on wearable tech and how that blinds...
The issue isn't a downer — Deadpool's black humor is both relief and borderline offensive that it feels out of place — but it is a look at Deadpool no one has seen before, and it ends with a punchline that is peak Wade Wilson.
The source material's missing humor represents the most neutered aspect of this adaptation, as if Wells had balked at the idea of having to balance outrageously nasty sparring with black - hearted laughs, fearing it would be impolite for the audience to snicker at the deeply incisive judgments the characters bandy about.
Even the staff here at TVGB has become smitten with Jack Black's character, the witty humor, and gorgeous art in the demo that recently dropped.
However, because of my involvement with public art projects and queer identity in early, 90s, I decided to return to paintings with work that looked at the social ideas about the origins of one's sexual identity, often with black humor, of course.
With black humor Altındere captures the political routine in Turkey at the beginning of the 21st century and enunciates the role of the artist being the critic of social conditions.
Luka Fineisen's solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery greets the visitor with somber humor, accented by a stark palette in black, white, and silver.
Syms» use of humor in the film instantly calls to mind the many late night comedy show skits that have the tendency to poke fun at a perceived notion of black womanhood.
Having published his first cartoon at the age of 12, Davis studied with the artist Lamar Dodd in the University of Georgia's art school, which he attended on the G.I. Bill, and honed his skills drawing for the Red and Black (the student newspaper) and Bullsheet, an Athens humor publication.
In this unusually complete look at the much - loved artist's diverse approaches, Shrigley is revealed as a master of many media and many kinds of humor, from the black humor for which he is famed to caricature and more slapstick situations.
Notable galleries for 2014 include: Kevin Kavanagh (Dublin), presenting a storytelling series by Sonia Shiel, current ISCP NY artist - in - residence and recipient of Ireland's 2014 Arts Council Project Award; Laura Bulian Gallery (Milan), highlighting career Conceptualist Vyacheslav Akhunov, whose cultural investigations were featured in dOCUMENTA (13) and the 2013 Venice Biennale's Central Asian Pavilion; contemporary Bahamanian art hub Popopstudios (Nassau), spotlighting «everyday» assemblages and mixed - media works by founder John Cox; Frederieke Taylor Gallery (New York), revealing environmental concerns of downtown stalwart Christy Rupp, whose seminal public art projects factored into the 2012 exhibition Come Closer: Art Around the Bowery, 1969 - 1989 at the New Museum; Galerie Heike Strelow (Frankfurt am Main), combining sociopolitical commentary and black humor via Florian Heinke, who curated System of Diplomatic Chaos at Kunstverein Wiesbaden last year; and CONNERSMITH.
Unlike his black - and - white drawings with their comic strip aesthetic, the monotypes on display at the Museum Ludwig are very colorful, but they show the same bizarre and morbid humor.
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