Sentences with phrase «dark comedy stylings»

Unlike Gangster Squad, this film at least seems assured of its dark comedy stylings.

Not exact matches

It was an experiment in writing «A Clockwork Orange» - style black comedy and was intended to be a dark satire on the loneliness and frustration that is so often a part of the contemporary male experience, as well as an attack on rape culture.

I, Tonya's tone and style are among its strongest attributes, with Gillespie nailing the execution of a dark comedy.

As an uberfan of the so - bad - it's - good masterpiece The Room and a solid admirer of The Disaster Artist, The Room co-star Greg Sestero's tell - all book about the making of mysterious vampiric figure Tommy Wiseau's «Tennessee Williams style melodrama as told by an alien who has apparently never seen normal human beings interact» drama - turned - dark - comedy - after - initial - audience - reactions - full - of - howling - laughter, I was a bit reserved in my excitement when I found out that James Franco was going to direct the film adaptation, as well as portraying Wiseau himself.

Synopsis: Tim Burton returns to the dark but fanciful animated style of The Nightmare Before Christmas with this stop - motion black comedy.

Taking off from the format of a typical teenage sex comedy, Brickman deepens the characters and tightens the situations, filming them in a dark, dreamlike style full of sinuous camera movements and surrealistic insinuations.

According to Volk, he and Raimi had written a horror - comedy (which sounds awesome); Friedkin says he was angling for a darker, Brothers Grimm - style take on the material.

With its story built out of substantial but discrete blocks, many of them notable for their bone - dry humour, it sometimes calls to mind the dark comedies of Östlund's fellow Swede Roy Andersson, albeit with a less surreally heightened visual style.

His feature debut, A Dark Song is somewhere in - between an ultra-involving parental drama, a 60s - style occult horror and an out - and - out black comedy, balancing the trio surprisingly well and delivering a thoroughly entertaining and refreshing new slice of British cult cinema.

The Family is a dark comedy directed by Luc Besson, a French director who has achieved international success mainly due to his knack for Hollywood - style action flicks like La Femme Nikita, The Professional, and The Fifth Element.

After working on a few more independent films, including «Reckless» (1984), «Old Enough» (1984) and «Heartbreakers» (1984), he made another important personal and professional connection when Martin Scorsese hired him to shoot a low - budget indie - style film that he was working on as a way of collecting his bearings after a string of increasingly complex and complicated productions, the dark comedy «After Hours» (1985).

The dark comedy that both McDonagh brothers have utilised within their scripts have served them well when employed within Irish culture, but when adapted to American stylings it does tend to falter a tad.

In lesser hands, this could have turned into a sub-Father Ted - style knockabout comedy with a dark undertone.

«In place of menacing - looking men, hand - held camera, and dark tones, NOCTURAMA has beautiful teens, fixed shots, and warm colours — the visual style of a teen comedy - drama.»

With a story built out of substantial but discrete blocks, many of them notable for their bone - dry humor, it sometimes calls to mind the dark comedies of Östlund's fellow Swede Roy Andersson, albeit with a less surreally heightened visual style.

After winning a Golden Globe for their dark comedy television series Transparent, Amazon has announced their intentions to produce indie style movies with budgets between $ 5 million and $ 25 million (in addition to more work on television series, including a second season of Transparent and something brand new from filmmaker Woody Allen).

Targeted Age Group: 18 + Category: Horror Print book price range: $ 16.34 eBook price range: $ 5.99 About The Robusta Incident: The Robusta Incident is a dark, zany office comedy that blends a coffee chemist's midlife crisis and questionable sanity with some serious corporate satire to bring you a hilarious, office - style zombie apocalypse.

During the PlayStation Experience 2017 live stream held earlier today, Sony have revealed that the next PlayStation 1 classic to be given the 4K treatment will be MediEvil, a hack and slash platformer filled with undead enemies, dark British styled comedy, spooky chalices and wise cracking gargoyles.