Sentences with phrase «black comedy with»

It's hard to recommend Daley enough — an author who's adept at blending laugh - out - loud black comedy with a bit of something all his own.

Suberb Irish black comedy with some cuture thrown in.

A perfect black comedy with one of the most underappreciated central performances in film history, by Dennis Price (and a handful of genius ones by Alec Guinness).

The film wavers between horror and black comedy with relative fluency; the kind of fluidity that can only be created from a self - assured filmmaker.

The first Deception is the best, a pitch - black comedy with a generous dose of slapstick.»

After writing Kids, Larry Clark's cautionary tale about violent and anti-social youth, Korine skirted the line between outsider horror and jet - black comedy with his directorial debut, Gummo, about glue - sniffing, cat - killing kids in rural Ohio.

Writer / director John Michael McDonagh easily matches his brother Martin (director of In Bruges and Seven Psychopaths) in terms of black comedy with a philosophical heart.

Featuring Cranston in an excellent villainous role and Beloved Character Actress Margo Martindale, it's a black comedy with a pleasing amount of bite.

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.

Cleverly written by the Coen Brothers (in «Blood Simple» mode), George Clooney and his writing / producing partner Grant Heslov and directed with a keen eye by Clooney, «Suburbicon» is a black comedy with a message attached.

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

«A remarkable, audacious, uproarious black comedy with a daring combination of realism and madcap absurdity.»

A pleasant slice - of - life black comedy with a perfect and likeable cast and fun performances and situations.

Killer Joe is a pitch - black comedy with colorful dialogue and eloquent staging, but Friedkin seems to find the most pleasure in graphically depicting violence and psychosexuality.

This is pitch perfect black comedy with the gore of a horror industry master.

So Drowning Mona is a black comedy with a heart.

Some of her more notable work included Clay Pigeons, a black comedy with Vince Vaughn and Joaquin Phoenix; Permanent Midnight, which marked another collaboration with Stiller; and the animated Kiki's Delivery Service, which featured Garofalo as the voice of a new age artist and mystic.

Critic Consensus: A modern update on the tale of Little Red Riding Hood, Freeway is an audacious black comedy with a star - making performance from the young Reese Witherspoon.

Russell has combined pathos, terror, and black comedy with a dollop of Hollywood feel - good patriotism to make one of the best studio efforts this year.

Not exact matches

But in a night filled with traditional, safe, punchlines from Fallon, the duo's brief detour into absurdist black comedy was probably the funniest moment of the whole show.

Unlike Mel Brooks's comedy Blazing Saddles, in which Brooks plays against the genre by making it clear that he's spoofing it, with the black sheriff and the horse KO'd by an uppercut to the nostrils, Lucas goes with flow of his story.

I know in my earlier years when I would «align» myself with «white» values, I felt I was different and doing something special, and then I realized what Whoopi Goldberg said in her comedy routine years ago about the little girl who wanted to be white with the long flowing hair, «you still gon be black.»

To pose with her Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series award for «Black - ish,» she changed gears, donning a tawny furry jacket which gave the frock a»70s vibe.

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Apparentlly I have a good sense of humour with a keen sense of the ridiculous - think of the comedy series «Black Books» with a touch of «Ideal» and a pinch of «Frazier» and you may have...

Find a «I, Tonya»: Tonya Harding biopic is black comedy, with a high degree of difficulty.

The story charts the emotional development of the protagonist, Elizabeth Utah - based filmmaker Andrew Black makes his feature debut with Pride & Prejudice: A Latter - Day Comedy.

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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.

Under the guidance of Cumberbatch, who serves as executive producer, Nicholls» translation is a surprisingly positive endeavour, combating the inherent bleakness and social commentary of Aubyn's stern prose with black comedy and an unceasing desire to better one's self.

«To the Bone» Marti Noxon, a longtime symbol of female empowerment in TV for her work on «Buffy the Vampire Slayer» and «UnREAL,» makes her feature directorial debut with a pitch - black comedy about her own struggle with anorexia.

Funny as she was in the much sharper - edged black comedy «There's Something About Mary,» she spends her time here as a ninny, worrying about wedding plans and eventually bashing the best man with a coat stand when he puts the wedding's perfection in jeopardy.

Cooped up uneasily in a Texas trailer home strewn with beer cans and lit up by a TV screen glowing 24/7, the whole damn family is mean and screwy as mad dogs in the bloody black comedy / horror show Killer Joe.

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.

Some employees of an international arms dealer go out into the Hungarian wildeness for a weekend company retreat, only to find themselves menaced by a group of militants who don't like having them around their territory in this modestly budgeted dark comedy / horror film from Christopher Smith, who also directed Black Death (with Sean Bean).

The Spaniard freak Alex De la Iglesia debuts with this funny futuristic black comedy where a guerrilla formed by anarchistic cripples plan their biggest attack to the establishment, then all hell breaks loose.

There's a plethora of excellent scenes and hilarious characters throughout Van Dormael's riotously enjoyable black comedy and he delivers it with such playfulness that it's hard not to be swept along with its creative enthusiasm.

Looks like the best new TV series of the fall season, filled with fascinating people, ingenious turns of plot, strong, offbeat drama, an unmistakable air of realism and some delicious bits of black comedy.

Netflix has previously scored with «Orange is the New Black» and «House of Cards,» but this is the first true comedy it has picked up and it looks to be a winner.

The setup is ripe for a black comedy but the movie never fully embraces the darkness and the level of humor is on par with the limp skits for which Wiig is responsible on Saturday Night Live.

What it really is is a screwball comedy with a black - hearted center, an energy extremely difficult to capture and maintain, but Healy — as actor and as director — manages to do so.

The movie is a pitch - black comedy, told with a wink and a smirk by unreliable narrators, who include Harding, her mother, and her husband — all presenting self - serving versions of the truth, often standing in arch contrast to the images we are shown.

In «Walk Hard,» a comedy studded with cameos, the brief appearance of Jack Black, Paul Rudd, Justin Long and Jason Schwartzman as John, Paul, George and Ringo was a highlight.

All of Chucky's sequels are kinda of bad written, it have it's moments, but what saves is the character of Chucky and Andy, and later Tiffany and Glen, toughter with the black comedy and horror scenes.

Secondly the tone of this film varies hugely, at one point its a dumb black comedy type affair, then its a somewhat semi serious, dirty government type affair, then its trying to be a Bourne-esque kickassery type affair, then it hints at being a rom - com with cutesy dialog, and at times it can be a bit heartfelt.

This British black - comedy soars high with its wit and tragedy.

Opening with a postmodern preamble explaining that this version of events is based on «irony - free, wildly contradictory, totally true interviews» with Harding and her ex-husband Jeff Gillooly (now Jeff Stone), the chatty, fourth wall — breaking black comedy — think The Big Short on ice — conveys much of its humor and humanity through fictionalized talking - head interviews with Tonya, Jeff (Sebastian Stan), and her mother LaVona (Allison Janney).

An unfocused, unfunny black comedy, Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb details the chaos that ensues after a nuclear attack is mistakenly triggered against the Soviet Union - with the film following a host of disparate figures, including George C. Scott's Buck Turgidson, Sterling Hayden's Jack D. Ripper, and Peter Sellers» title character, as they attempt to neutralize the threat.

Feeling doomed, Delacroix decides to present the most outrageous, unbelievable farce of stereotypical comedy he can imagine - hearkening back to the old days of «black - face» minstrels with a variety show featuring Manray, a homeless tap dancer, and his sidekick Womack.

In this black comedy, a philosophical hit man (Cusack) reluctantly accepts an assignment in Detroit which coincides with his 10 - year high school reunion in the upscale suburb of Grosse Point,...