Sentences with phrase «black humour»

But will his unique mix of black humour transfer over effectively?

Perhaps the best thing about this film is the pitch black humour that goes hand in hand brilliantly with the absurdity of the piece.

Or perhaps I just don't understand American black humour.

The majority of such books are written with the gritty black humour of how soldiers think and talk.

Black humour stuff in case you haven't caught on yet.

There are occasional moments of black humour, especially the disposal of the body scene.

Saulnier's screenplay is tight and peppered with black humour as the strong cast do sterling work.

His stern presence acts as a reminder that, despite the many moments of black humour on display, the subject broached is a serious one.

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

We love black humour, gallows humour, call it what you will.

Perhaps only in the sense that all Quentin Tarantino's films, from «Reservoir Dogs» to «The Hateful Eight», have a solid streak of black humour running through them — and whatever the genre or story, they're often fuelled by the disconnect between their characters» chat and their violent scenarios.

Many songwriters are covering the bizarre political climate across the States and Europe, but who uses black humour like The Decemberists?

victor, being that i'm canadian, it's probably canadian black humour, but i am married to an american...

Some good Danny Welbeck black humour on the terraces today.

This is fine in the first ten minutes or so where the characters are being introduced and the Squad is being assembled; there's a lot of welcome black humour, particularly from a well - cast Margot Robbie, which serves to separate her version of the character from that in Batman: The Animated Series.

Original tongue in cheek black humour.

Kung Fu Panda is pretty good, with good action, well designed characters and Jack Black humour.

Perfectly capturing the pointless absurdity of war and treading the line between fantasy and realism, the novel's black humour serves to highlight the nightmarish everyday reality faced by Baghdad's residents.

What we can say is that Better Watch Out generates white - knuckle suspense and pitch black humour while dishing out plot shocks galore that even hardened horror hounds won't see coming.»

More crucially, he fills even this rather dopey movie with underlying intelligence and a bracing vein of ironic black humour.

Fans of grisly black humour will love it, although the plot...

Both films employ a conspiratorial, first person voice - over together with a potent mix of surreal realism and exceedingly black humour to invest the experiences of their anti-heroes with genuine pathos.

Solondz's latest features his trademark streak of deliciously black humour, but is also frustratingly uneven.Read More

A strong undercurrent of Aussie black humour helps make this revolting story just about palatable, although the solid cast struggles to make the idiotic characters very likeable.

Written and directed with the verve, painstaking nuance and outrageously black humour that have become the mainstay of a Coen movie.

Beginning with a trumpet riff that evokes John Williams» legendary Superman theme, only to segue into the horrible crash landing of an Armenian schizophrenic, the film's pre-credits sequence perfectly captures a tone of arch black humour that treads a fine line between the old and the new, the expected and the unpredictable.

As they unravel the sadness of their lives in a mix of cynicism and black humour pain bubbles to the surface...

James Purefoy's performance is as quietly intense as ever, and the show proves that it can use that for both nailbiting tension, in the case of Beau's forest encounter, and brilliantly black humour.

It's quite likely that there will be some humour in McBride's «Halloween» script — if even the kind of smart satirical black humour that littered Wes Craven's «Scream» films.

Thankfully, there's a recurrent streak of black humour which stops Green Room from getting too bogged down in the misery and emotional (plus very physical) torture, not the least one recurrent gag which earns the film a deep belly laugh, right at the best possible moment.

The plot of the film is inconsequential compared to the sunny, electric energy and black humour generated by these children through several slice - of - life episodes.

The scale of the action - packed second half ultimately dispels the strong atmospherics of the first half and despite Wingard's self - aware black humour the film ultimately proves just that bit too preposterous to swallow.

But mostly the ruthless black humour is sustained, and occasionally some genuine emotion can creep in and touch our hearts.

As much as he quickly knits in plenty of tension, there's always the slightest hint of black humour trailing not far behind, making for an entertaining twist on an otherwise much dryer genre.

Zusak's characters have depth and appeal (even cranky Rosa): the banter between them often lifts the tension from serious moments with some quite black humour.

Dan is self - destructive, anarchic, gifted and (I hope) funny — I wanted black humour, wanted readers to hate him, then maybe forgive him when they turn the page.

Having stopped at the entrance to sign our waiver form - lots of black humour about being eaten by lions - we head into the park and cross a river where all vehicles stop to gaze down upon a pair of hippos cavorting in the water below.

Black humoured action - RPG series Fable was the studio's most popular export (with three main entries, a Kinect - only title, a pub games - style app and a multiplayer platformer released under the Fable banner), as well as the quirky god simulator franchise Black & White.

Sometimes, you can even sense some hidden black humour that, if only because of the solidity of the objects, reminds you of the still lives of Philip Guston.

Her personal iconography often featured organic imagery such as birds, eggs, leaves, fruit and tendril - like automatist lines depicted with a sense of «surrealist black humour and violence», often within a dreamlike landscape.

Gillespie has imbued his film with black humour, while never undermining the authenticity of the characters or detracting from the abuse that runs through the story.

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The editing is precise, the storyline dark, complex and sly, and injected throughout with the Dutch director's trademark pitch black humour.

There's also a rich seam of black humour running through the movie, with most of the one liners coming from Imogen Poots.

Taika Watiti was known for his light - hearted comedies with his own brand of black humour like What We Do in Shadows and Hunt for the Wilderpeople before he was asked to helm the third iteration of the Thor franchise titled Thor: Ragnarok.