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But despite its oddities and surrealistic black comedy take on society's perception of relationships this is actually a surprisingly good film.

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Prior to the show, Waithe built a resume marked by episodes of Fox's Bones and Netflix's Master of None (the latter earned her an Emmy, making her the first black woman to take home the award for comedy writing).

These days, the Marvel movie on everyone's lips is Black Panther, but we'd be remiss to entirely forget about Thor: Ragnarok, a shaggy, sci - fi buddy comedy that just happened to take place against a vista of wild, intergalactic gladiatorial combat.

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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.

However, it would be a mistake to allow the controversy or the shock value to become the story of this excellent noir comedy that takes black humor to a new level of darkness.

Craig Gillespie's take on Tonya's story, the hilarious and gut - punching I, Tonya, is a nearly pitch - perfect black comedy that distills the sensational story into two potent insights very relevant to 2017.

Fox's new comedy - drama Lucifer has a similar premise [as «Death Takes a Holiday and «Meet Joe Black»], but without the sap and more zip and lip.

An unusually intelligent black comedy, this British independent film takes the audience on a road trip that's packed with surprises.

Written and directed by actress Adrienne Shelly, who also has a bit part in this film, I»LL TAKE YOU THERE is an offbeat black comedy that has many bits and pieces that make it worth watching, but as a whole isn't quite substantial enough to remember long afterwards.

I»LL TAKE YOU THERE is recommended for people who like black comedies, off - beat indie films, or are just curious to see Ally Sheedy in a good performance again.

«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.

It takes some doing to make a Jack Black comedy that doesn't work.

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.

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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.

Jason Segal co-wrote the script with director Nicholas Stoller («Forgetting Sarah Marshall»), and they were unafraid to take it into black comedy territory.

Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe may be «The Nice Guys» in director Shane Black's new action - comedy, but the pair took every opportunity to needle each other at the Cannes press conference for the film Sunday.

Cast: Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Christopher Walken, Woody Harrelson, Tom Waits Program: Midnight Madness Headline: A night at the meta Noel's Take: It's awfully easy for a self - aware, super-violent black comedy to curdle, using its winking at the audience as a lazy justification for clichés and titillation.

Donald Glover's series took the observational, auteur - driven comedy that FX has nurtured in such shows as «Louie,» «Baskets» and «Better Things» and succeeded, by all accounts, in fulfilling Glover's stated claim — to «show people what it feels like to be black.»

Featuring a blistering, Oscar - nominated performance from Peter O'Toole, Peter Medak's scathing black comedy satire The Ruling Class takes a caustic shot at British social structure, while creating a truly terrifying portrait of mental illness.

There's plenty of potential for jagged black humour in this suburban comedy - drama, but the filmmakers never take a single risk.

As actor James Franco took the stage wearing all black and a Time's Up pin to accept his award for best lead actor in a comedy for The Disaster Artist, actress Ally Sheedy, watching from home, weighed in.

Ryan Reynolds happens to be the latter in Marjane Satrapi's The Voices, a clownshit off - the - wall nuts looking black comedy that sees a mentally imbalanced Reynolds take killing orders from -LSB-...]

; MEN AND CHICKEN, Anders Thomas Jensen's dark, twisted and extremely animalistic comedy as black as pitch, but with the sweetest heart, starring Mads Mikkelsen; Fernando León de Aranoa's black comedy A PERFECT DAY, a freewheeling tale centering on two veteran aid workers starring Benico Del Toro and Tim Robbins; the International Premiere of Brendan Cowell's debut RUBEN GUTHRIE about an advertising exec trying to quit the booze, which spikes social observations with dark, wounded humour and the European Premiere of Japanese auteur / icon Takeshi Kitano's latest comedy, RYUZO AND HIS SEVEN HENCHMEN, about a group of elderly, retired Yakuza who reteam to take revenge on a younger rival gang.

The bro, mad scientist was an interesting take; he adds black comedy and suspense to the film (you can never fully read him, but still manages to remain very charismatic).

Russell Crowe, the star of The Nice Guys — Shane Black's action comedy about a pair of misfit guns for hire who are trying to track down a missing porn star — talks to Andrew Pulver about how it takes a lot of effort to make effortlessly funny comedy, and the lengths he and his his co-star Ryan Gosling went to to make a scene in which Gosling is sat on the toilet realistic

A moody, sexy drama with bursts of black comedy sprinkled throughout, Concussion takes familiar themes — infidelity, complacency, mid-life anxiety — and explores them from the fresh perspective of a fascinating (if a...

Now, they're hoping to translate their brand of comedy to the big screen in this take on black inner city action movies — like «New Jack City,» but with two nerds and a cute kitten at its center.

This may be a laugh - until - you - cry sort of black comedy, but I'll take whatever laughs I can get at the moment.

THE VERDICT: Refreshingly subversive and featuring a never - better Jack Black, The D Train takes bromantic comedies to their natural conclusion.

Issa Rae continued her impressive year overtaking an immensely - talented field to take home the Outstanding Actress, Comedy Black Reel Award and Outstanding Writing, Comedy Series for Debbie Allen («Insecure As F**k).

On the comedy side, Donald Glover and his creative team had a great night as well as the critically - acclaimed FX series, Atlanta, took home three awards, including the inaugural Black Reel Award for Outstanding Comedy Scomedy side, Donald Glover and his creative team had a great night as well as the critically - acclaimed FX series, Atlanta, took home three awards, including the inaugural Black Reel Award for Outstanding Comedy SComedy Series.

Together with cinematographer Barry Peterson they give us the best use of tilt - shift in a comedy film that makes the locations look like a game board, and a one - take action scene to rival the one in Black Panther.

O'Hara starred in the original Miracle on 34th Street (1947), Sitting Pretty (1948), the comedy that launched the Mr. Belvedere films, and the original The Parent Trap (1961), worked with directors Dorothy Arzner (Dance, Girl, Dance, 1940), Jean Renoir (This Land in Mine, 1943, again with Laughton), Nicholas Ray (A Woman's Secret, 1949), Carol Reed (Our Man in Havana, 1959) and Sam Peckinpah (The Deadly Companions, 1961), and appeared opposite Tyrone Power (The Black Swan, 1942), Henry Fonda (three times, starring with Immortal Sergeant, 1943), John Garfield (The Fallen Sparrow, 1943), Errol Flynn (Against All Flags, 1952), and James Stewart twice (Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation, 1962, The Rare Breed, 1966).

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.

The former Comedy Central star took home a historic win for Get Out, becoming the first black writer to win Best Original Screenplay.

«Birdman was the big winner at the Gotham Awards on Monday, as Alejandro G. Iñarritu's black comedy scored the top prize of best feature and star Michael Keaton took the actor honor.»

While there are many gripping moments in the subtle black - and - white comedy, the most touching comes just before the credits roll as Dern's character takes one last joy ride through his hometown and catches the eye of a former flame that burnt out a long, long time ago.

Part black comedy, part slasher flick, «Scream Queens» is a modern take on the classic whodunit, in which every character has a motive for murder... or could easily be the next blood - soaked casualty.»

Their investigations takes in a suicidal porn star and an escalating city - wide criminal conspiracy, and the movie soars heavenwards on a surge of adrenaline and effervescent Black comedy.

So it's no shock that Lanthimos» latest film, titled The Lobster, combines elements of both those earlier movies to present us with yet another eerie black comedy that takes place in a sealed - off existence and places a higher affirmation on living unhappily with someone rather than being happy and alone.

When: October 5th Why: A black comedy that takes place in the offbeat and seemingly trivial world of butter carving competitions?

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

Ten years later, I remain stunned that Reese Witherspoon was not nominated for her brilliant work in «Election» as a pathologically ambitious, grasping social climber student doing anything it takes to head up the student council in Alexander Payne's astute and black comedy.

But the new indie The D - Train starring Jack Black and James Marsden takes the bromantic comedy to a whole new level, and it makes for an absolutely hilarious and wild ride.

Ryan Reynolds happens to be the latter in Marjane Satrapi's The Voices, a clownshit off - the - wall nuts looking black comedy that sees a mentally imbalanced Reynolds take killing orders from Mr. Whiskers, his cat.

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From director Trent Haaga, 68 Kill is a lurid black comedy which will take you on a murderous road trip; pure trailer - park trash with a sleazy punk rock edge, and plenty of violent shocks along the way.