Sentences with phrase «black comedy running»

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.

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Martin McDonagh's black comedy is alive and kicking after a strong run.

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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.

The 21st century corollary to George Kaufman's maxim that «satire is what closes Saturday night» might well be that indie black comedies — which almost never make money but continue to attract name actors — are what play contractually mandated one - week runs at the Village East before heading off to DVD.

While doing promo runs for her upcoming black comedy horror flick «Tragedy Girls,» actress Alexandra Shipp briefly talked to Deadline

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.

runs the tagline to this Kiwi eco-horror black comedy that revels in its self - referential silliness.

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.

With the splendid drawing - room black comedy «The Party,» shot at the run - up to the nihilist Brexit referendum, Potter finds a medium of satire and belly laughs in seventy swift minutes, shot in black - and - white, etched in vitriol, shot in the confines of her own longtime London townhouse in under two weeks.

Running the gamut from the deeply moving to the darkly humorous, The Party puts an entirely modern spin on the traditional British comedy of manners; that it's filmed in black and white only adds to the stark intimacy which draws the viewer in.

Francois Ozon (8 Women, Swimming Pool) once again toys with the conventions of cinema, although this time the comedy runs a bit more blacker than most audiences might be accustomed to.

They're both terrific black comedies that give the Coen Brothers a run for their money.

A bestseller in China, recently short - listed for the Man Asian Literary Prize, and a winner of France's Prix Courrier International, Brothers is an epic and wildly unhinged black comedy of modern Chinese society running amok.

«Scorched Earth,» his first solo show in Los Angeles (which concluded its run in September), referenced black stand - up comedy, HIV diagnoses in the U.S., and the L.A. uprisings in 1992.