Sentences with phrase «black comedy follows»

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

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.

This 1998 black comedy follows a teacher (John S. Davies) who finds a unique solution to deal with his students» destructive behavior.

«Dom Hemingway»: The black comedy follows the travails of an English safecracker (Jude Law), so plot as well as savings likely factored into its London location.

BIRDMAN (aka The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) is a black comedy following the story of an actor (Michael Keaton)-- famous for portraying an iconic superhero — as he struggles to mount a Broadway play.

Not exact matches

Despite an interesting premise and excellent cast, the film flopped, but Arquette continued to work steadily the following year, with lead roles in the black comedy Goodbye Lover; Stigmata, in which she starred opposite Gabriel Byrne as the unwitting target of a supernatural phenomenon; and Martin Scorsese's Bringing out the Dead, a film starring Arquette's then - husband Cage as a burnt - out paramedic.Following the weightiness of the creepy Stigmata and the disturbing Bringing Out the Dead, Arquette took things in a decidedly lighter direction with her next two projects.

An unfocused, unfunny black comedy, Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb details the chaos that ensues after a nuclear attack is mistakenly triggered against the Soviet Union - with the film following a host of disparate figures, including George C. Scott's Buck Turgidson, Sterling Hayden's Jack D. Ripper, and Peter Sellers» title character, as they attempt to neutralize the threat.

She played the woman who gets to play scenes opposite all three of the leading men in the Oscar - winning No Country for Old Men, and followed that up in the odd romantic black comedy Choke.

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.

Such is the case with DreamWorks Animation's big upcoming sequel Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom of Doom, the follow - up to the action comedy starring Jack Black in animated clothes.

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.

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.

«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.

Blended with his black, wry comedy, the picture follows a truly unique journey.

WHY: Phil Morrison is perhaps best known for directing the Oscar - nominated film «Junebug,» but any promise that he may have showcased with that movie has likely already been forgotten about between his little - seen follow - up «Perfect Partner» and this joyless black comedy.

«Hannibal» and «Black Hawk Down» followed in 2001, «Matchstick Men» in 2003, the Crusades epic «Kingdom of Heaven» in 2005, the Crowe comedy «A Good Year» in 2006, and «American Gangster in 2007.»

What follows will hopefully be more Men in Black than RIPD, livening up the usual buddy comedy with a layer of ectoplasmic slime.

We follow cardiologist Steven Murphy (Colin Farrell in full black comedy form, wearing a survivalist beard) as he navigates life or... Read More»

What follows is a search for meaning that meanders between comedy and tragedy, anchored by Gleeson's most compelling performance yet as a shepherd doomed to spend his (potentially) final days tending a flock of black sheep.

One of the oddest films about mental illness to come along in awhile, this pitch black comedy from Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis) follows the downward spiral of Jerry (Ryan Reynolds), a fellow driven to violence by the voices in his head... which seem to be emanating from his pets.

If you haven't yet watched the series (and you really should), the hilarious dark comedy follows two teens — James (Black Mirror's Alex Lawther) and Alyssa (Jessica Barden)-- as they run away from home and embark on a cross-country road trip.

I, Tonya follows in the tradition of edgy black comedies Fargo and To Die For, with moments like the one we experienced in Fargo, which provokes laughs when Steve Buscemi is fed through a wood chipper, and only later do you wonder if there is something seriously wrong with you.

Last Summer's biggest gimmick comedies, Year One (Jack Black in animal skins) and Land of the Lost (Ferrell in another dimension), were crushingly bad; by comparison, Forte's MacGruber (if ever a title deserved to be followed by an exclamation point, this is it), seems like a piece of comic genius.

With multiple nominations in the craft categories the film easily topped the 2018 list, followed by Martin McDonagh's black comedy Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and the Gary Oldman - starring Churchill biopic Darkest Hour.

In an alternate mid-80's universe, director Joe Dante's follow - up to his grim Yuletide fairy tale Gremlins would have been Safe Neighborhood, a crisp, crackling, black and bloody Christmas comedy / horror that came to fruition after Dante glimpsed an early draft of Michael Haneke's Funny Games script.

Adopting a black comedy stance, Psychokinesis follows a father who uses his newfound superpowers to help his daughter.

In 1986, Rob Zombie deleted the black comedy from his previous film, «House of 1,000 Corpses,» for its nihilistic, superior follow - up, «The Devil's Rejects.»

Oliver Stone's controversial comedy, which follows two mass murderers (Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis), remains as black as ever.

Knight has made a career of following his own interests, cutting his teeth in spoof comedy, creating the original British edition of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, and parlaying that success into his feature writing debut, the black - market organ harvesting drama Dirty Pretty Things.

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.

«The Wicker Tree,» writer - director Robin Hardy's belated follow - up to his chillingly strange 1973 cult film «The Wicker Man,» is reportedly a tongue - in - cheek black comedy.

When: April 4th Why: It's been nine years since writer / director Richard Shepherd burst onto the scene with the hugely entertaining black comedy «The Madator,» and with the exception of his underseen 2007 follow - up («The Hunting Party»), he's spent most of that time as a hired gun for various TV series.

Bill Skarsgard (It) and Maika Monroe (It Follows) have signed on for leads roles in the upcoming dark comedy thriller Villains, which is being directed by Dan Berk and Robert Olsen (The Stakelander) from their 2016 Black List script.

Following in the footsteps of Joel and Ethan Coen's classic black comedy crime thriller, FX's Fargo is a small screen reboot rather than a direct remake of the lauded movie.

A love story, an adventure story, a fable without a moral, and an ink - black comedy of manners, Undermajordomo Minor is Patrick deWitt's long - awaited follow - up to the internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed novel The Sisters Brothers.

From the bestselling, Man Booker - shortlisted author of The Sisters Brothers, comes a brilliant and boisterous novel that reimagines the folk tale.A love story, an adventure story, a fable without a moral, and an ink - black comedy of manners, Undermajordomo Minor is Patrick deWitt's long - awaited follow - up to the internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed novel The Sisters Brothers.Lucien