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Oh but how quickly it turns into one of the most outrageous and darkest black comedies of its decade.
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The study revealed that less than 10 percent of adult viewing on Netflix was of its much - buzzed - about original series, like «House of Cards,» its political drama, and «Orange Is the New Black,» the dark comedy about prison.
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.
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).
Synopsis: Tim Burton returns to the dark but fanciful animated style of The Nightmare Before Christmas with this stop - motion black comedy.
Wilson had already been a fan of the show's co-creator Mike White, impressed by his ability to go from writing the dark, psychological indie comedy «Chuck & Buck» to the mainstream Jack Black comedy «School of Rock.»
Reminiscent in tone to classic dark screwball comedies like Ruthless People, director Seth Gordon (Four Christmases, The King of Kong) succeeds by keeping the energy high, the actors flowing naturally with off - the - cuff reactions, and by keeping the tone light, the performances spot on, and the quips lightning - fast throughout, even during the pitch - black comedy moments.
«The first, Dancehall Bitch, is a deeply provocative prison drama, while the other is a black - dark romantic comedy called Oliver Twisted,» he explains.
One of the year's most intellectually stimulating features, Beyond the Hills is a brazen meditation on the constant fight between religion and superstition, blending some truly dark themes with an oddly entrancing sense of black comedy to make something entirely his own.
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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.
Writer - director McDonagh brings to this film the same blend of black comedy, dark emotion and grisly violence as his brother Martin's gem In Bruges.
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.
This smart riff on the Coen brothers» 1996 classic Fargo is is a blend of wonderfully offbeat black comedy and much darker themes involving a central character who seems to be mentally unstable.
Hot on the heels of the Alice Lowes and Ben Wheatleys of this world, are an entire new movement of young, cult - driven filmmakers, pushing old - school movie monsters and pitch black dark comedy to the very front of their repertoires.
While highlighting the messier side of human interaction, this Norwegian black comedy blends snappy wit and romantic farce to keep us entertained even when things get rather dark.
Not to be confused with this year's dark Wolverine send - off (or its black and white home video edit Logan Noir), this Logan is an original heist comedy from a mystery writer credited as Rebecca Blunt, believed to be a pseudonym.
After the 2011 black comedy The Guard, Brendan Gleeson reteams with writer - director John Michael McDonagh for a darker comical drama grappling with issues of faith and forgiveness.
Elle review: Paul Verhoeven returns for an extreme revenge thriller / black comedy that plays as a deeply dark comedy.
The Bridge boasts both emerging writers and big names: book in for Barney Norris's rural drama Nightfall, from 28 April, and Martin McDonagh's black comedy about Hans Christian Andersen, A Very Very Very Dark Matter, from 10 October.
Letterboxed at 1.85:1, the transfer boasts near - perfect sharpness and seemingly accurate, evenly - saturated colours, but the image is too dark for a bubblegum comedy by a country mile, with detail often lost in a muck of deep browns and blacks.
Still, as a mostly apolitical black comedy and dark melodrama, «Lovelace» works reasonably well, and that's mostly due to a strong pace and a stronger cast.
A script by first - time screenwriter Andrew Sodroski from the 2013 Hollywood «black list» of unproduced screenplays, Holland, Michigan is a contemporary dark comedy set in what Morris describes as «this strange city on the Western coast of Michigan.»
Gillespie and Rogers go into dark places here but never lose the black - comedy tone of the piece, and a large part of that is due to a cast that gets it exactly right.
If you haven't yet watched the series (and you really should), the hilarious dark comedy follows two teens — James (Black Mirror's Alex Lawther) and Alyssa (Jessica Barden)-- as they run away from home and embark on a cross-country road trip.
His 1998 breakout film, «Clay Pigeons,» was a dark and nasty crime comedy, as black and violent as they come.
; 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.
Relatos salvajes (Wild Tales, Damián Szifrón, 2014) Six self - contained stories linked by the theme of vengeance make for some laugh - out - loud moments amid the darkest of black comedies.
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«Birdman» looks to be nothing if not unique, a sort of dark comedy version of «Black Swan» about celebritydom and crisis of identity that features an excellent cast, including the rather brilliant casting of Michael Keaton in the lead role.
Stiller made his directorial debut with Reality Bites, a sweet romantic comedy that had the misfortune of being marketed as the defining film of Generation X. Stiller's next film as a director, The Cable Guy, was an ambitious black comedy that was overshadowed by the hype surrounding Jim Carrey's then - unprecedented $ 20 million payday and dark role.
On the plus side, this black comedy, with a healthy dose of murder, blackmail and corruption, is good for some dark dry laughs, especially from the formidable and funny Gleeson.
With multiple nominations in the craft categories the film easily topped the 2018 list, followed by Martin McDonagh's black comedy Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and the Gary Oldman - starring Churchill biopic Darkest Hour.
For a black comedy, The Big White lives up to its name by being completely devoid of dark moments meriting our laughs or our interest.
Joel Silver, who produced both the Weapons movies and Bang Bang, is producing Nice Guys, which is said to have much of the trademarked Black dark comedy and smartypants dialogue.
To me, it was dark, pitch black humor like Fargo or Wolf of Wall Street, both of which were also nominated as comedies at the Globes.
An exhilarating mix of dark comedy, white - knuckle action and dramatic intrigue, Gringo joyrides into Mexico, where mild - mannered businessman Harold Soyinka (David Oyelowo) finds himself at the mercy of his back - stabbing business colleagues (Joel Edgerton and Charlize Theron), local drug lords and a morally conflicted black - ops mercenary (Sharlto Copley).
LMD: Words often used to describe your work are «dark,» or «black comedies,» and even «cruel.»
He did so again with 2012's brilliant black comedy Sightseers, blending elements of horror and dark English satire, and once more in 2013's wildly experimental, black and white historical drama / «horror» film A Field in England, though to lesser effect.
Two Pigeons is a dark urban morality tale with an underlying streak of jet black comedy.
As reported by Screen Daily, the film is being dubbed a «dark fairytale with moments of brilliant black comedy.»
HBO has given a series order to The Brink, a dark comedy that stars Jack Black and Tim Robbins, Deadline reports.
Debuting at the Boston Underground Film Festival, «Love on the Rocks» walks the delicate balance between a dark, cautionary horror tale and black relationships - from - hell comedy, by and large succeeding.
A trailer has arrived online for HBO's upcoming dark comedy series The Brink starring Jack Black (Bernie), Tim Robbins (The Shawshank Redemption), Pablo Schreiber (Orange Is the New Black) and Aasif Mandvi (Jericho)... When a rogue general seizes control of Pakistan and its nuclear arsenal, the fate of the world rests on the shoulders of -LSB-...]
And now he has given us what may be the performance of his career, as a kindly serial killer in the bracingly dark and violent black comedy The Voices — and over here in the US the thing gets a simultaneous VOD and limited theatrical release.
And if all of this is indeed meant to amuse (it's billed as comedy / drama), we've stumbled upon the Guinness of black comedies here, folks — this is some dark, heavy stuff.
And Marcel is ludicrously busy going forward: there are two more TV shows set up at Channel 4, «Trans Alice» and «Amazing Grace ``; another at the BBC, a contemporary version of «Medea ``; she's executive - producing yet another at HBO titled «The Madonnas Of Echo Park ``; she's penning a top - secret project for Ben Stiller (which she describes as «a dark comedy... a very different character for Ben»); has a film called «Reunion» set up at Working Title and is adapting the book «Mr. Chartwell,» a biopic of Winston Churchill which physicalizes his famous depression as a six - foot - seven black dog.
Showing Sunday as part of the Chicago Film Festival, this very dark Hungarian black comedy has more than a few tricks and paradoxes up its sleeve.
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.
Absurd and surprising, this dark comedy stars Jack Black as a mortician who becomes great friends with a demanding widow played by Shirley MacLaine.