Sentences with phrase «black comedy by»

«God of Carnage» is a black comedy by French playwright Yazmina Reza.

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

«Three Billboards» is a pitch - black comedy by writer - director Martin McDonagh («In Bruges»), which follows a mother (McDormand) who unleashes her fury over her daughter's unsolved murder on the town's sheriff.

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A comedy by the team behind «Orange Is the New Black.»»

Prior to the show, Waithe built a resume marked by episodes of Fox's Bones and Netflix's Master of None (the latter earned her an Emmy, making her the first black woman to take home the award for comedy writing).

Unlike Mel Brooks's comedy Blazing Saddles, in which Brooks plays against the genre by making it clear that he's spoofing it, with the black sheriff and the horse KO'd by an uppercut to the nostrils, Lucas goes with flow of his story.

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.

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.

That being said, Very Bad Things is ultimately redeemed by a finale that's just jaw - dropping in its cruelty towards the remaining survivors - thus clinching the movie's status as one of the more effective black comedies to come around in quite some time.

Cooped up uneasily in a Texas trailer home strewn with beer cans and lit up by a TV screen glowing 24/7, the whole damn family is mean and screwy as mad dogs in the bloody black comedy / horror show Killer Joe.

Some employees of an international arms dealer go out into the Hungarian wildeness for a weekend company retreat, only to find themselves menaced by a group of militants who don't like having them around their territory in this modestly budgeted dark comedy / horror film from Christopher Smith, who also directed Black Death (with Sean Bean).

The Spaniard freak Alex De la Iglesia debuts with this funny futuristic black comedy where a guerrilla formed by anarchistic cripples plan their biggest attack to the establishment, then all hell breaks loose.

The movie is a pitch - black comedy, told with a wink and a smirk by unreliable narrators, who include Harding, her mother, and her husband — all presenting self - serving versions of the truth, often standing in arch contrast to the images we are shown.

Prior to that, he produced and starred in Phil Morrison's black comedy ALL IS BRIGHT alongside Paul Rudd and lent his vocal talents to the English - language version of the Oscar - nominated French animated feature, ERNEST & CELESTINE, and the highly anticipated feature - film adaptation of THE LITTLE PRINCE, directed by Mark Osborne.

A graduate of the Tuskegee Institute, Wayans entered the comic arena in the mid -»80s by stepping up to the mike and honing his stand - up act, but he later branched out into movies, by scripting the low - budget black satire Hollywood Shuffle (1987) and the aptly - titled comedy vehicle Eddie Murphy: Raw (1987), both for director pal Robert Townsend.

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.

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.

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.

Jack Black, Michael Cera, Dave Grohl, Winona Ryder, and Kristen Wiig are some of actors on the comedy show based on the Funny Or Die concept where historical reenactments are explained by drunk narrators.

A would - be black comedy written by Tracy Letts, based on his play, and directed by 76 - year - old William Friedkin, who has done little of note since he made «The French Connection» and «The Exorcist» during the Nixon administration, the movie stars Emile Hirsch as a low - level drug dealer who decides to kill his mom to pay off his superiors.

As I often write, black comedy is a difficult genre to pull off, but thanks to Todd Phillips comfort with outlandish material working from a clever script by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, it all comes together to form a funny and satisfying movie that belongs next to Apatow's finest in the burgeoning «bromance» genre.

The duo have two other buzzing projects in development: a comedy entitled Comic Con (one of two scripts by these guys on the 2009 Black List) and a remake of Brewster's Millions.

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.

Wilson had already been a fan of the show's co-creator Mike White, impressed by his ability to go from writing the dark, psychological indie comedy «Chuck & Buck» to the mainstream Jack Black comedy «School of Rock.»

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.

Written and directed by actress Adrienne Shelly, who also has a bit part in this film, I»LL TAKE YOU THERE is an offbeat black comedy that has many bits and pieces that make it worth watching, but as a whole isn't quite substantial enough to remember long afterwards.

Electric Dynamite and 20th Century Fox just released the latest international movie poster for the upcoming comedy «Gulliver's Travels» by director Rob Letterman (Monsters vs Alien, Shark Tale) and starring Emily Blunt (Charlie Wilson's War, The Wolfman), Jason Segel (Despicable Me, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Knocked Up) and Jack Black (Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom of Doom, Year One, Tropic Thunder).

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Yorgos Lanthimos's freeze - dried revenge saga casts Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman as a moneyed married couple who find themselves targeted by a supernatural teenager (Barry Keoghan), while the tale slaloms from deadpan black comedy through Cape Fear - ish thrills towards a finale of such matter - of - fact horror that it can only be watched through splayed fingers.

Reminiscent in tone to classic dark screwball comedies like Ruthless People, director Seth Gordon (Four Christmases, The King of Kong) succeeds by keeping the energy high, the actors flowing naturally with off - the - cuff reactions, and by keeping the tone light, the performances spot on, and the quips lightning - fast throughout, even during the pitch - black comedy moments.

Co-created by Rae and Larry Wilmore, the HBO hit comedy about the two women navigating work and relationships in south Los Angeles explores the black female experience not really seen onscreen since UPN's Girlfriends.

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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.

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Their highly idiosyncratic output includes the 2012 bloody black comedy «Sightseers» and last year's «High - Rise,» based on a dystopian novel by J.G. Ballard.

5 Nocturama This audacious French thriller by Bertrand Bonello begins with a topical premise — a crew of young radicals prepare to execute a coordinated terror attack across Paris — but Bonello's true agenda is socialist black comedy.

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.

Donald Glover's series took the observational, auteur - driven comedy that FX has nurtured in such shows as «Louie,» «Baskets» and «Better Things» and succeeded, by all accounts, in fulfilling Glover's stated claim — to «show people what it feels like to be black.»

Red Christmas is both written and directed by Australian actor - filmmaker Craig Anderson, making his feature directorial debut after numerous short films and TV work including «Double the Fist», «Black Comedy», and «How Not to Behave».

It is billed as a neo-noir black comedy (written by Mitchell): Andrew Garfield plays Sam, a guy who has fallen hopelessly in love with his beautiful neighbour who then disappears.

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.

The best of Guinness» comedies, it's directed by Ealing studio's most deft director, Alexander Mackendrick, as is The Ladykillers (1955), the blackest of Ealing's black comedies.

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

The black comedy anthology «Wild Tales,» written and directed by Argentine Damian Szifron, won for non-English language film.

Badged up, with half a cup of coffee in me and the printed press screening guide — rendered mostly useless by a dozen last - minute schedule changes — stuffed into my backpack, I head into my first screening of the day: The Lesson, a contrived, slightly smug little Bulgarian number lightened by fitful bursts of suspense and black comedy, and directed in the kind of serioso handheld style that is traditionally associated with the Dardenne brothers, because they're the only ones who know how to pull it off.

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Written and directed by Martin McDonagh, this is a razor - sharp and black as tar comedy of grief, bitterness and anger and their consequences when given free rein.

Created by Issa Rae and Larry Wilmore, the comedy series «Insecure» explores the contemporary black female experience in an unclichéd and authentic way.