Sentences with phrase «black comedy mixed»

Dead - black comedy mixes with trenchant social commentary, even if it eventually takes us out of the compound to something a little more familiar.

Not exact matches

As the trailer reveals, it's a sly mix of violence and black comedy about a detective and a father who seek revenge against the same man, a suspected child killer.

Richard Linklater mixes comedy, drama and documentary to tell a frankly outrageous true story, and in the process he also gives Jack Black one of his best - yet roles.

We at FNB decided to mix it up a little and forgo «Notorious,» which I often liken to a glass of Veuve Clicquot, for the chance to see a 1956 Jean Gabin black comedy «La Traversée de Paris.»

That he manages to mix this all with black comedy and pungent social commentary furthers the appeal of whatever this talented playwright and filmmaker serves up, and that includes his previous two films, In Bruges (for which he got a writing Oscar nomination) and the slightly overcooked Seven Psychopaths.

Yorgos Lanthimos» name has become synonymous with contemporary absurdism; the films that have made him one of the most lauded filmmakers in recent years - Dogtooth, Alps, and The Lobster - have mixed stories of families and relationships in the most strange of circumstances, combining black comedy, violence, and the crisis of identity.

At its core, Bad Santa is a mix of heist flick and a black comedy, with Thornton (Intolerable Cruelty, Bandits) playing Willie, a man who has no interest in being a mall Santa, save for the fact that it allows himself and his diminutive elf assistant (Cox, Date Movie) some time to case the place for a safe and figure out a way to crack it before Christmas.

An exhilarating mix of dark comedy, white - knuckle action and dramatic intrigue, Gringo joyrides into Mexico, where mild - mannered businessman Harold Soyinka (David Oyelowo) finds himself at the mercy of his back - stabbing business colleagues (Joel Edgerton and Charlize Theron), local drug lords and a morally conflicted black - ops mercenary (Sharlto Copley).

Martin McDonagh's («Seven Psychopaths») Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is a mix of black (and politically incorrect) comedy and heartfelt drama that takes us on a wild, mostly improbable but highly entertaining ride.

With his third film, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Martin McDonagh mixes black comedy with emotional drama.

The same year that An American Werewolf in London opened up the possibilities of the werewolf horror with a mix of black comedy and horrific transformations, Joe Dante went a different direction with The Howling (Shout Factory).

A potent mix of Western tropes, slick black comedy and American cop procedurals, The Guard may sound cluttered but is actually a fairly smooth concoction.

The black and white does lend things a melancholic air, though it's not so dazzling that we can't imagine it'll look just fine on the small screen in color too, and the sour - sweet mix, so important to this kind of comedy, errs impressively, if not always convincingly on the sour side, with very few moments of kindness not undercut by something meaner, until we get to the small uplift of the final moments.