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Epic black comedy from the inventive Chinese author... [t] his novel is every bit as rambunctious and bizarre as the summary will suggest.»

(2015) dir Jamie Babbit w / Judy Greer, Natasha Lyonne, Aubrey Plaza, Malcolm Barrett, Ron Livingston, Allison Tolman, Fred Armisen [85 min; DCP] This black comedy from director Jamie Babbit (But I'm A Cheerleader) features the great Judy Greer — finally in a starring role — as Shannon, a fresh - out - of - rehab sex addict, whose optimistic sister Martha (Lyonne) lands her a job as a maid at Fresno Suites, the local hotel.

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.»

Black comedy from satirist Todd Solondz (Happiness) starring Selma Blair, Christopher Walken and Mia Farrow about a 30 - something man - child whose attempts to find love and break free from his parents prove far more harrowing than he initially thought.

By Sean O'Connell Hollywoodnews.com: «One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,» Milos Forman's Best Picture - winning black comedy from 1975, will receive a special anniversary release from Warner Home Video on Sept. 7, Arriving in an Ultimate Collector's Edition DVD or Blu - ray loaded with more than four hours of bonus content.

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-...]

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.

This striking black comedy from Chile delves into the life of a 41 - year - old maid for a wealthy Chilean family, cleverly revealing both her own inner life and some home - truths from this modern - day caste system.Raquel (Saavedra)...

Anya Taylor - Joy and Olivia Cooke are a revelation in this suburban black comedy from Cory Finley.

Not exact matches

But in a night filled with traditional, safe, punchlines from Fallon, the duo's brief detour into absurdist black comedy was probably the funniest moment of the whole show.

The movie's got everything from slapstick comedy, to jack - in - the - box spooks, to 17 - year - old Wynona Rider wearing gothic - black attire and it was an essential starting point for many of Hollywood's finest working artists today.

On the first Pappa Lazarou claims another victim for his harem... More hilarious impressions and black comedy sketches from BBC's The League of Gentlemen.

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Pappa Lazarou claims another victim for his harem... More hilarious impressions and black comedy sketches from BBC's The League of Gentlemen.

Critic Consensus: A modern update on the tale of Little Red Riding Hood, Freeway is an audacious black comedy with a star - making performance from the young Reese Witherspoon.

The music is superb, the Simon Boswell piano theme is well suited and also suits for the horror genre, I don't really find this as a standard black comedy thriller, it is something like it is ripped off from Coen Brother's Blood Simple, with more of less funny dialogue but I find this a perfect thriller and quite known for its time and still is today because of Channel 4 which is now a popular channel with many sub-channels.

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).

This horrendously funny gross - out shocker from Lord of the Rings and King Kong director Peter Jackson is a brilliant black comedy and the ultimate gore movie.

That moment is the most shocking in the film: the violence, and then the lifetime of care needed to contain and control its consequences, are well suggested; the movie soberly keeps Marjorie away from any suggestion of black comedy.

Larry Yust's black comedy focuses on a group of senior citizens who learn they're about to be evicted from their apartment building.

People do very bad things in Very Bad Things, but in a black comedy it isn't so much what you do as how you do it, and Berg hasn't the gallows humor to turn this excursion into bad taste from a sick idea to the despicably funny film it should be.

For the most part, the movie is really a black comedy about Los Angeles - style self - obsession spiced with sudden drug interludes that jar you for a minute, then fade from memory as we head on to the next (occasionally facile) showbiz send - up.

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.

It could be [Lubitsch's] finest achievement, and it's certainly one of the most profound, emotionally complex comedies ever made, covering a range of tones from satire to slapstick to shocking black humor.

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.

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.

It's Mother's Day across the Pond today, and STX Entertainment is marking the occasion with a special message from the cast of the upcoming comedy Bad Moms; check it out below... SEE ALSO: Watch the trailer for Bad Moms Amy Mitchell (MILA KUNIS, Black Swan) puts her family first, second, and third.

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.»

Adding to that impression are the bold stylistic shifts from realism to surrealism, from action to horror to lyricism to black comedy to allegory and back again.

From low - budget black comedies (Shallow Grave) to box office blockbusters (the Star Wars prequels), lavish musicals (Moulin Rouge!)

«Get Out» is not a film that takes breaks for comedy routines (even if Howery allows a little relief, it's often in the context of how he's convinced all white people want black sex slaves), keeping us on edge and uncertain from the opening scene to the final one.

The black comedy, which stars Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz, was filmed in Co Kerry last year and received funding from the Irish Film Board.

From British / Irish director Martin McDonagh, who'd already had massive transatlantic success with plays like «The Beauty Queen of Leenane» and «The Cripple of Inishmaan» and had already won an Academy Award for his short film «Six Shooter,» the hitman black comedy was not just the arrival of an exciting new director, but also marked a refreshing change of pace for Farrell, whose split personality of rugged charm, soulfulness and hair - trigger volatility found its most perfect vehicle to date.

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.

He draws only on the violent and revisionist later entries in the genre (Leone, Sergio Corbucci, Clint Eastwood, Sam Peckinpah) to make a nihilist, heel - dragging black comedy that borrows its central conflict from John Wick.

Mark Osborne and Jack Black from Tenacious D are going to do a comedy segment for the film.

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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The film is today's version of a «black comedy,» i.e., it is coarse, caricaturing and for the most part unfunny, its approach largely borrowed from whatever last year's most lucrative «black comedy» might have been.

Suicide and apartment troubles turn a perky couple into serial killers in this black comedy misfire from the 18th Annual Tribeca Film Festival.

Released: May 20th Cast: Ryan Gosling, Russell Crowe, Angourie Rice, Keith David Director: Shane Black (Iron Man 3) Why it's great: Birthed from»70s funk, covered in porn sleaze, and decorated with the English - language equivalent of shaggy neon carpet, this rollicking, Los Angeles - set noir is a comedy of groovy errors.

The Bronze then changes from an oddball black comedy full of crass humour and filthy language into a sort - of redemption story (with crass humour and filthy language), although neither choice ever really works.

Drowning Mona is the latest entry in the saturated «black comedy» genre, and takes its place alongside such crowd - pleasing chestnuts as Drop Dead Gorgeous and Throw Mama from the Train, although it pales in comparison to either one.

An over-achieving student (Reese Witherspoon) runs for student body president and a popular teacher (Matthew Broderick) resorts to drastic measures to keep her from winning in this black comedy.

In John Sayles» science - fiction comedy The Brother from Another Planet, the Brother (Joe Morton) arrives on Earth as an escaped alien slave, running from two white Men in Black (David Strathairn and John Sayles), who are also aliens.

Black and Martin are especially charming as guys from way different backgrounds who become unlikely friends and for a PG - rated family comedy, you could do a lot worse.

For my money it's a comedy, but of the blacker - than - black variety, which is exactly what you expect from writer - director McDonagh, who has already brought us the wickedly funny In Bruges, about two hitmen languishing in Belgium after killing an innocent bystander, and the astonishing play The Lieutenant Of Inishmore, a blood - soaked tale of mad Irish terrorists that I'm ashamed to say made me laugh until I cried.

From Shane Black, director of Iron Man 3 and the highly underrated dark comedy Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, The Nice Guys has a lot going for it in the casting department as well with Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling leading this crime thriller into funny but intriguing directions.

With a rollicking black comedy set in a war zone, the tone necessarily goes plural, as the story careens from the abruptly tragic to the blithely, weirdly funny and back again.

Not only does he skilfully deliver a delicious dose of macabre black - comedy drenched in Glasgow city culture, but offers a punchy screenplay (adapted from Douglas Lindsay novel Long Midnight of Barney Thomson) complete with side - splitting dialogue, in a playground built for comedic absurdity, to which the entire cast relish with delight.