Sentences with phrase «black comedy»

The end result is what is often regarded as a minor masterpiece of black comedy by many critics.

Black comedy about students discussing current affairs with dinner guests, which leads to murder.

It's a sharply written black comedy with an incredible eye for detail.

But the only way to get through this movie is to treat it as black comedy, so she's sadly the butt of all the jokes.

However, we do see his knack for black comedy here as well as his continued interest in the internal struggles of men.

The perfect blend of pitch black comedy and horror executed to perfection.

It's quite «American Beauty» in tone but with a lot more black comedy and silly editing.

I love black comedies, they really do appeal to me, and this one looks pretty darn good.

The blend of horror and black comedy takes place in an ordinary school that is about to have an extraordinarily bad day.

It's one of the most brutal black comedies I've seen, capped off by one of the most memorable endings 2016 has yet produced.

But those are minor complaints compared to its many strengths, because while the film isn't for everyone, fans of Chinese cinema or just really good black comedy will love it.

Oh but how quickly it turns into one of the most outrageous and darkest black comedies of its decade.

An unusually intelligent black comedy, this British independent film takes the audience on a road trip that's packed with surprises.

I don't really think I'm suited for black comedies anyway.

Not only is the castle now a fast food restaurant, but there is also a strange streak of black comedy running through the entire movie.

In a year that has consistently felt like an apocalyptic black comedy, albeit one that is no laughing matter, the greatest films have served as an anchor of sanity.

Both fantastic thrillers, breathtaking technical exercises and coal black comedies.

The journey is marked by frustration, isolation, exhaustion, and unexpected black comedy.

His awkward attempts to pump information from her drew laughter from the audience, exposing a script that aims for drama with elements of black comedy, but lands somewhat wide of the mark.

I was about 9 when this came out and even by this point, it was more black comedy than horror.

It's the tone, fashionable these days in black comedies about how messed up our American priorities are, that says: This is funny.

With new Ben Wheatley movie Free Fire on release this week, Sean Wilson chats to one of the director's closest collaborators Dan Martin about the art of great practical effects... Blasting onto screens in a hail of gunfire, mismatched accents and some choice 1970s costumes, Free Fire is the riotously entertaining new black comedy from -LSB-...]

At no point during the production of Pain & Gain, the new black comedy starring Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson, did Marc Schiller get a call from its makers.

There are essentially two sides to the music — high - register strings and winds perfectly evoking the freezing temperature and snow which dominate the show's look, and occasional diversions into black comedy with quirkier little pieces, pizzicato strings here, a little woodwind flutter there, ironic sleighbells — it's all about creating just the right atmosphere, and the composer succeeds in doing precisely that.

Maybe it's because I grew up in (and survived) a small town similar to Verplanck, or maybe it's because I have a soft spot for pitch black comedies like this one.

Roadside Attraction's opening of «The Party,» a British black comedy directed by Sally Potter, earned $ 36,334 on three screens during Friday - Sunday.

Michael Keaton stars in a new black comedy BIRDMAN from director Alejandro G. Iñárritu.

The film is an edgy black comedy set in swinging London presents.

The Wolf of Wall Street is a 2013 American biographical black comedy crime film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Terence Winter, based on the The Occupy movement is an international socio - political movement against social and economic inequality and the lack of real democracy around the world.

Tropic Thunder (2008) featured several trailers, including The Fatties: Fart 2 which was a Jack Black comedy about obesity, farts and burps.

CLAY PIGEONS is a woefully uneven black comedy which sports a hip, young cast and a first - time writer as well as director.

Writer - director team Jean - Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro's endlessly inventive and wildly enjoyable post-apocalyptic black comedy follows a sinister butcher and the circus clown who becomes his nemesis.

Then, things quickly went south for Williamson with Teaching Mrs. Tingle, the 1999 black comedy thriller on which he made his directorial debut.

If you're anticipating an hilarious offbeat black comedy with assassins, you'll be disappointed.

Just hopped off the phone with John Landis about his new black comedy film Burke & Hare (coming out September 9th),...

A faltering attempt at black comedy mixed with romantic melodrama, «Married Life» is always on the verge of being interesting but never quite gets there.

Hitchcock meets Almodovar in this Spanish black comedy by Alex de la Iglesia (Day of the Beast, Dance with the Devil).

As reported by Screen Daily, the film is being dubbed a «dark fairytale with moments of brilliant black comedy.»

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.

This is pitch perfect black comedy with the gore of a horror industry master.

For example there's a scene where Knightley, who thinks her husband is having an affair, is relieved to find out he's actually only been off killing Russian agents; this might work played as very black comedy, but it's done too straight here.

At best, this is a cringey stab at black comedy redeemed by charismatic stars; at worst it's a glib and manipulative punt on a subject that deserves more care.

One fateful day in 1996, Mr. Milioti wanted to see the critically acclaimed black comedy Fargo.

The Last Days of Emma Blank Matt P. [LIKED] Great black comedy set up, about a rich and empathy impaired superbitch using her fortune to make everyone around her behave how she wants them to.

This one opens a vein of morbid black comedy rather than one of blood, sending up suburban parenting oneupmanship and the motherly desire that everything be absolutely perfect for a child's big day.

Jeff «the dude» Lebowski was seen wearing this print chunky cardigan in many scenes of the neo-noir crime and black comedy movie.

It is far from a perfect movie, but it is a neat black comedy featuring for the most part unlikeable characters played by a great cast.

In fact, the events play out much like a quirky black comedy, with noir overtones, depicting the real - life characters as humorously eccentric figures stuck in superficially tragic situations.

Scenes where Beane nonchalantly sends the flabbergasted Brand to sack failing Oakland players lob some enjoyable black comedy into the mix, while Beane's motormouth, take - it - or - leave - it phone calls as he hustles rival team managers are a recurring motif.

With The President's Last Bang (2005) he created a slick black comedy around the 1979 assassination of President Park Chung - hee; the president's son, Park Ji - man, was so offended by the film that he sued for defamation, hoping to block its release.