Sentences with phrase «black comedy thriller»

Then, things quickly went south for Williamson with Teaching Mrs. Tingle, the 1999 black comedy thriller on which he made his directorial debut.

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.

9:35 am — Sundance — A Girl Cut in Two One of the last films from great French director Claude Chabrol before his death, with Ludivine Sagnier as an up - and - coming TV personality faced with choosing between two men — with Chabrol at the helm, you know there's more than that to it, and his touch for black comedy thrillers should make this one an enjoyable watch.

Not exact matches

Coming to cinemas in just a couple of weeks is The Trust, a new black - comedy buddy cop thriller that stars Nicolas Cage and Elijah...

Richard Eyre's (Stage Beauty, Iris) direction is tight and virtually lag - free, treading the line between drama, thriller, and black comedy in a very adept fashion.

5 Nocturama This audacious French thriller by Bertrand Bonello begins with a topical premise — a crew of young radicals prepare to execute a coordinated terror attack across Paris — but Bonello's true agenda is socialist black comedy.

The film is equal parts psychological thriller, nightmarish arthouse horror and black comedy; it's the pulsing dread of Polanski's Rosemary's Baby meets Haneke's gallows humour and Kubrickian clinical formalism.

All hail Shane Black, the king of the fast - quipping buddy comedy - thriller, and a man who seems incapable of writing a screenplay without somehow involving Christmas.

Director Shane Black's visits 1970s Los Angeles for his new thriller comedy starring Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe.

Much more of a paranoid thriller than a black comedy, The Manchurian Candidate will probably never be heralded as a great film, even if it were a wholly original work.

Like Headhunters, which was also based on a Jo Nesbo story, this Norwegian thriller almost plays more like a black comedy than an action movie.

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.

John can currently be seen in the revisionist thriller «The Raven» as American poet Edgar Allen Poe, and has a number of other projects in the works, including the black - ops thriller «The Numbers Station,» the Spanish - language comedy «No somos animales,» the true crime thriller «The Frozen Ground,» and two new films from director Lee Daniels: «The Paperboy» and as Richard Nixon in the star - studded «The Butler.»

Despite a promising trailer and a great cast, this French - American comedy - thriller is a complete misfire because Luc Besson seems unclear about how to create a black comedy.

Unusual, unpredictable and unpleasant, this starts out as domestic drama, transforms into a thriller with black comedy elements, then ends up in «Wicker Man «territory.

Elle review: Paul Verhoeven returns for an extreme revenge thriller / black comedy that plays as a deeply dark comedy.

In this gritty crime thriller, laced with elements of black comedy, Donal races against time to repair the damage he's done to his estranged family while trying to avoid being killed by his enemies.

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Danny Boyle is one of the more underrated mainstream directors working today; he's been able to spin films as different as pitch - black comedy (Trainspotting) to apocalyptic zombie thriller (28 Days Later) with genuinely good results (let us not speak of The Beach).

More than a year after it made a splash at the Sundance Film Festival, Cory Finley's blackly comic thriller (or is a thrilling black comedy?)

So far the Hollywood movies screening at Cannes — Woody Allen's romantic roundelay «Cafe Society,» starring Kristen Stewart, Shane Black's hit - man comedy «Nice Guys» starring Ryan Gosling, and Jodie Foster's Wall Street thriller «Money Monster» starring George Clooney and Julia Roberts — have played out of competition, more as red - carpet plays and marketing junkets than surefire Oscar launches.

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

Starring The Witch's Anya Taylor - Joy and Bates Motel's Olivia Cooke as disturbingly emotionless upper - class teenagers who plot to kill one girl's stepfather after rekindling their childhood friendship, the film was a favorite of our own A.A. Dowd at last year's Sundance Film Festival, where he called it a «razor - witted black comedy» that's «superbly unpredictable, moving fluidly into thriller territory and back again.»

Sometimes the best surprise comes when one is least expecting it, and this bizarre melange of coming - of - age drama and Fargo-esque black comedy / thriller is a great example.

Headhunters is a very ambitious film that expects its audience to stick with it through a wild ride through film genres, starting with light - hearted comedy, progressing through heist film, black comedy, thriller, back to heist film before finishing back at quiet comedy.

And here are the five most disappointing films of the year: Fantastic Four (choppy and compromised superhero action), Sisters (corny comedy that's simply not smart enough), Southpaw (bogs down in boxing drama cliches), Pan (childish and manic kids» adventure), Black Mass (oddly unoriginal mob thriller).

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.

Identity Thief is all over the map when it comes to the kind of film it wants to be, sometimes playing like a wacky farce, sometimes as a black humor raunch-fest, sometimes as a silly thriller with laughs, and sometimes trying to draw out even some touching moments in a mismatched buddy road - trip comedy, a la Trains Planes and Automobiles.

It constantly flits between genres — serious addiction drama, black comedy, wacky stoner comedy, legal thriller, romance, aviation disaster thriller etc... For a while, the film's offbeat tone is interesting, and threatens to do surprising things with its familiar setups.

LORD OF WAR is a black comedy that is also a troubling thriller, abut arms deals and mass murders.

That's the most common response to Na Hong - Jin's twisted thriller, which starts life as a black comedy with procedural elements and becomes, well, something else.

Like each of his plays, it oscillates between black comedy and psychological thriller, and is doubtless guaranteed to contain at least one nasty twist.

Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado, the team behind the black comedy «Big Bad Wolves,» will helm the revenge thriller.

But the real reason to get pumped for this Directors Fortnight premiere is filmmaker Jeremy Saulnier, who last came to Cannes with the tense black comedy / revenge thriller «Blue Ruin.»

Bill Skarsgard (It) and Maika Monroe (It Follows) have signed on for leads roles in the upcoming dark comedy thriller Villains, which is being directed by Dan Berk and Robert Olsen (The Stakelander) from their 2016 Black List script.

He's producing the Spike Lee thriller Black Klansman; a TV drama about Nazi - hunters in America in the 1970s called The Hunt; an adaptation of a novel for HBO that interweaves the horror fiction of H. P. Lovecraft with racism in the U.S. during the era of Jim Crow called Lovecraft Country; and a Tracy Morgan comedy show for TBS called The Last O.G., about an ex-con who returns to a now gentrified Brooklyn.

Platoon is laughably bad, with horrible acting, narration, dialouge and over use of its score.This film fails at every level, every character is an over the top, cardboard cutout.Every white southerner is a drunken, racist, maniac.Every black soldier is a drug addict or coward, or both.When scenes make you laugh, when its intended to be moving?That's a problem.Full metal jacket is much MUCH more powerful and original.It has a black comedy / horro / thriller / element that has allowed this film to age so beautifully.Platoon's plot, is devoid of any tension.Once one of the 3 main characters die, we KNOW what's going to happen, and it DOES!

Michelle finally got her first starring role as the love interest in Shane Black's meta - thriller - comedy, «Kiss Kiss Bang Bang» starring Val Kilmer as a gay private eye and Robert Downey, Jr. as a thief - turned - actor.

Following in the footsteps of Joel and Ethan Coen's classic black comedy crime thriller, FX's Fargo is a small screen reboot rather than a direct remake of the lauded movie.

Then the mists of mystery drift away and Blue Ruin morphs into a revenge thriller splattered with momentsof black comedy and existential horror.