Sentences with phrase «black comedy set»

Sure, it's based on a stage - play and betrays its origins, it features a stunning performance from Jason Robards and, as far as I remember, was a bleak, black comedy set in a pre-gentrifiied NYC.

A black comedy set in 1967 and centered on on Larry Gopnik (Stuhlbarg), a Midwestern professor who watches his life unravel when his wife prepares to leave him because his inept brother (Kind) won't move out of the house.

The Last Days of Emma Blank Matt P. [LIKED] Great black comedy set up, about a rich and empathy impaired superbitch using her fortune to make everyone around her behave how she wants them to.

A black comedy set in 1967 and that centers on Larry Gopnik, a Midwestern professor who watches his life unravel when his wife prepares to leave him because his inept brother won't move out of the house.

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.

Born in London and raised in Norwich, Norfolk, Harris studied at the Drama Centre in London and made his feature leading role debut in 2007's SAXON, a black comedy set in a London housing project.

The film is an edgy black comedy set in swinging London presents.

Not exact matches

You might think this would set the stage for a black comedy, but director Christine Jeffs and screenwriter Megan Holley opt for a less showy, more mundane approach.

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.

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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 hushed, claustrophobic ambience of high privilege and repressed feeling occasionally cracks, as this horror movie reveals itself also to be a rich, agonizing melodrama and a dry comedy of manners set in a fantasy Manhattan of crème caramel wainscoting and black - tie evenings at the opera.

A very broad comedy — certainly not black in hue, but perhaps a mild shade of gray — set in Queen Anne, Volunteer Park, and other picturesque locations with views of the Space Needle, plus the (film insider joke!)

He set out to make a black comedy about the Iraq war and ended up with a film about Trump.

While the film sets out with ambitions as a somewhat cynical British black comedy it just never quite gels together.

It sets out as a barbarous black comedy which details the transition of Barney Thomson's life as a small - time Glaswegian barber to that of a makeshift serial killer.

A deliciously heightened, caviar - black comedy that sets up its brittle, bourgeois characters like bowling pins and gleefully knocks them down in 71 minutes flat.

A script by first - time screenwriter Andrew Sodroski from the 2013 Hollywood «black list» of unproduced screenplays, Holland, Michigan is a contemporary dark comedy set in what Morris describes as «this strange city on the Western coast of Michigan.»

The Party: Director Sally Potter's black comedy about an intimate gathering of friends that goes haywire when an unexpected announcement sets off a chain reaction exposing secrets, sex, and betrayal.

«Three Christs» [CAA / Highland Film Group] Jon Avnet sets about the ambitious task of creating both a black comedy and a film that gets mental illness right.

It's an extremely edgy black comedy that chronicles the way Harding endured various forms of abuse and exploitation — from her mother (Allison Janney), her husband (Sebastian Stan), and tabloid media that covered and actively amplified the lurid story, set at the dawn of the Age of Truthiness.

Now that the acquisitions floodgates are open, the buys keep piling up like it's Black Friday in studio shopping baskets, and this afternoon has brought news of the biggest deal yet at the festival, with Variety the first trade to report that Relativity Media are set to put down what may be a record - breaking sum for «Don Jon's Addiction,» the raunchy comedy that marks the directorial debut of Joseph Gordon - Levitt.

Nurse Jackie alumna Betty Gilpin is set to co-star opposite Alison Brie in G.L.O.W., Netflix's 10 - episode straight - to - series comedy executive produced by Orange Is The New Black creator Jenji Kohan.

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A would - be «black comedy,» directed and co-written by George Clooney, Suburbicon is set in 1959 in a bland suburban community.

Beyond the ickiness of the relationship between an infamously predatory director (John Malkovich) entering into a relationship with the 17 - year - old daughter (Chloe Grace Moretz) of Louis» character, the juxtaposition of a black - and - white,»40s - screwball comedy setting with profane, raunchy humor just never works.

The first images from the set of director Alejandro González Iñárritu's black comedy Birdman have surfaced, and they're quite glorious.

Jordan Peele's Get Out is horror / comedy thriller about an unsuspecting black man who wanders into a trap set by nefarious white people.

This set - up is ripe for both black comedy and soul - searching drama, and yet writer Steven Knight throws in irrelevant sideroads including a mandated therapist (the wonderful Emma Thompson), a bitter rival (a jagged Matthew Rhys), a couple of randomly violent loan sharks and a precocious little girl.

They may be less enthralled by the strange cocktail offered up here by director David Leitch (the two John Wick movies), which plays at being be an ambitious espionage thriller — it's set in 1989 Berlin as the wall is about to fall — but is happy to drop everything to watch Theron indulge in the brutal black comedy of violent beat - downs.

The set - up is great, and offers plenty of scope for both over-the-top action sequences and Home Alone - style mayhem, but Helander never quite settles on a tone, perhaps because the 13 - year - old hero demands a PG - 13 sensibility that undermines any chance of proper black comedy.

The list of icons making appearances was truly unprecedented: Superman soars twice — once in the «return» and the other as Ben Affleck; Crockett and Tubbs exude cool; Ethan Hunt falls short; Captain Jack Sparrow sets the stage for the finale; Jack Black sometimes wears stretchy pants; Huey Long is resurrected and somehow over-played by Sean Penn; the mass appeal of the DaVinci Code novel fizzled onscreen; Robert Altman's amazing career ended with an excellent adaptation of a radio series starring Garrison Keillor's made for radio face; Johnny Depp tried to untrack his career with The Libertine; Nicolas Cage was front and center in the disastrous remake of The Wicker Man, but if the preview is any indication, his sleep - walk was merely a tune - up for this year's Ghost Rider; Woody Allen (with Scarlett Johansson as his muse) re-emerged with his best comedy since Crimes and Misdemeanors; amazingly, Jen and Vince's real life break - up was more entertaining than the film version; and while on - set hook - ups seem to the norm, how could the dreadful You, Me and Dupree have been an aphrodisiac for Kate and Owen?

That's not a problem for a black comedy, but The Details grinds to a halt as its main character receives valuable life lessons or as he heads into another predictable comic set - up.

Similar to Eddie Murphy classic comedy, Black Panther is set in another fictional country, called Wakanda, and the depth of traditional African style is heavily focused.

And Marcel is ludicrously busy going forward: there are two more TV shows set up at Channel 4, «Trans Alice» and «Amazing Grace ``; another at the BBC, a contemporary version of «Medea ``; she's executive - producing yet another at HBO titled «The Madonnas Of Echo Park ``; she's penning a top - secret project for Ben Stiller (which she describes as «a dark comedy... a very different character for Ben»); has a film called «Reunion» set up at Working Title and is adapting the book «Mr. Chartwell,» a biopic of Winston Churchill which physicalizes his famous depression as a six - foot - seven black dog.

It's here where director Shane Black (the director of Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and Iron Man 3) sets up one of his best physical comedy bits.

Set amidst the latest trends in music, dance and fashion, WE THE PARTY is a colorful, cutting - edge comedy set in an ethnically diverse Los Angeles high school during America's first black presideSet amidst the latest trends in music, dance and fashion, WE THE PARTY is a colorful, cutting - edge comedy set in an ethnically diverse Los Angeles high school during America's first black presideset in an ethnically diverse Los Angeles high school during America's first black president.

Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman is set for prime time comedy after announcing he will host an episode of NBC's Saturday Night Live.

The basics: A bumbling private eye (Gosling) and a violent goon (Crowe) team up to find a missing woman (Qualley) in this 1970s - set buddy comedy from director Shane Black («Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,» «Iron Man 3»).

The set - pieces of black comedy, like the crucial dinner party which Stevens manages to handle perfectly, never disturbing the Hitler - appeasing grandees upstairs, while his father dies below stairs are as shiny as the silver cutlery.

Paper Moon meets the Blitz in this original black comedy, set in World War II England, chronicling an unlikely alliance between a small time con artist and a young orphan evacuee.

«The Curse of the Wendigo,» a story about a mysterious creature set during World War I, written by Mathieu Missoffe and illustrated by Charlie Adlard, the artist of «The Walking Dead;» «Josephine,» a romantic comedy by Penelope Bagieu, the creator of «Exquisite Corpse;» «Promethee,» a science - fiction story in the same vein as «Lost,» created by Christopher Bec, with an introduction by Mark Waid; «Iron Squad,» an alternate history sci - fi story in which new technology allows the Germans to win World War II, by Jean - Luc Sala and Ronan Toulhoat; «Spin Angels,» a tale of black ops and spies, a Catholic cardinal and the Mafia, by Jean - Luc Sala and Pierre - Mony Chan; «Come Prima,» a road story about two warring brothers, done in a style that pays homage to Italian films, by Alfred.

Other Grooms films include: The Big Sneeze (1962), a hand - drawn comic filmed by Rudy Burckhardt; Before an» After (1964), a sadomastic comedy that casts Mimi Gross as part dominatrix / part healthclub operator; Fat Feet (1966), a collaboration with Mimi Gross, Yvonne Andersen and Dominic Falcone that begins where Shoot the Moon ends; Tapping Toes (1968 - 70), which uses his first sculpto - pictorama City of Chicago (1967) as its set; Conquest of Libya by Italy (1912 - 13)(1972 - 3), a black and white animation that spoofs that era's newsreels; Hippodrome Hardware (1973), based on Grooms» 1972 live performance of the same name, whose main character Mr. Ruckus is played by Grooms; Grow Great (1974), a live - action short that features Mimi Gross as the household consumer; Little Red Riding Hood (1978), which features his daughter Saskia; and Man Walking Up (1984).

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