Sentences with phrase «good black comedy»

But those are minor complaints compared to its many strengths, because while the film isn't for everyone, fans of Chinese cinema or just really good black comedy will love it.

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Donald Glover, who won two Emmys including best comedy actor for his FX show «Atlanta,» joked on stage, «I want to thank Trump for making black people number one on the most oppressed list, he's the reason I «m up here I think.»

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.

Someone who is a good listener I love comedy I listen to all sorts of music especially rock and country I'm a black male 32 years old and I love older women

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...

He should be tall blue sky eyes black hair very handsome very sexy, he must love out doors love comedy love to play around a bit, he must love good joke, and he must be very caring n loving..

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.

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.

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.

Moran continues to perform at various international comedy festivals, and is known for his role as David in Shaun of the Dead, as well as a quirky bookshop owner in the popular British sitcom Black Books, which he also co-wrote.

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.

Dobkin (who previously directed the black comedy «Clay Pigeons,» as well as the absurdly delightful «Shanghai Knights») doesn't make the mistake of trying to ease us into comedy mode; he pitches us into it head - first, which is a lot more fun.

We're beyond the era of Airplane and The Naked Gun, but even some of the early Scary Movie films had some merit, and then Walk Hard, Black Dynamite, and Wet Hot American Summer are shining examples of the best the comedy subgenre has to offer.

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.

That moment is the most shocking in the film: the violence, and then the lifetime of care needed to contain and control its consequences, are well suggested; the movie soberly keeps Marjorie away from any suggestion of black comedy.

Bart is perhaps best known, however, for his portrayal of George Williams on the prime - time black comedy hit Desperate Housewives (2004 - 2005).

Probably more than any other filmmaker, his name evokes instant expectations on the part of audiences: at least two or three great chills (and a few more good ones), some striking black comedy, and an eccentric characterization or two in every one of the director's movies.Originally trained at a technical school, Hitchcock gravitated to movies through art courses and advertising, and by the mid -»20s he was making his first films.

You could almost imagine the two films, or at least their heroes, figuring in the kind of good - natured, racial - stereotype humor that used to be a staple of stand - up comedy (and was memorably parodied on «The Simpsons»): «white guys abolish slavery like this» (pass constitutional amendment); «but black guys, they abolish slavery like this» (blow up plantation).

Critics Consensus: It struggles to find a balance between its humor and its message, but The Last Supper's sharp script and well - chosen cast offer just enough nourishment for fans of black comedy.

Wildly entertaining... Skillfully walks a fine line between black comedy and intense drama... It's one of the year's best.

Hospital is a black comedy about a bitter, suicidal doctor (George C. Scott) whose hospital is being destroyed by the murders of several staff members, as well as the staff's own ineptness.

You might call it a black comedy of errors, but the humorous side of the film is less well executed than Slattery's impeccable creation of a certain neighborhood feel.

He also received a Best Actor nomination in 1944 for «The Human Comedy» and earned Best Supporting Actor nods in 1957 for «The Bold and the Brave» and 1980 for «The Black Stallion.»

Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series Ellie Kemper (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) Allison Janney (Mom) Julia Louis - Dreyfus (Veep) Tracee Ellis Ross (Black - ish) Lily Tomlin (Grace and Frankie) Jane Fonda (Grace and Frankie) Pamela Adlon (Better Things)

2015 turned out to be the year Orphan Black «s Tatiana Maslany finally got her due, as well as the year Modern Family and The Big Bang Theory loosened their stranglehold on the comedy categories.

He didn't exactly choose an easy project for a first film, as black comedy is a very difficult style of film to pull off, and with a cast of very seasoned actors to have to tell precisely what to do, Guthe very well could have lost control and focus on the project and turned in a disaster.

Sestero starred in the Tommy Wiseau - directed THE ROOM, a «so - bad - its - good» black comedy, given a measly 3.4 on IMDb.

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) rarely knows what to do with comedies, so it's no surprise that Don Roos» insanely black comedy about a pregnant runaway (Christina Ricci, deserving of a Best Actress nomination) conning everyone in her path, including a guileless bisexual (Ivan Sergei) and her gay half - brother Bill (Martin Donovan, Supporting Actor - worthy for sure), never registered with them.

I»LL TAKE YOU THERE is recommended for people who like black comedies, off - beat indie films, or are just curious to see Ally Sheedy in a good performance again.

It's a black comedy of our impulse to deify the dead, especially a teen suicide, and Lance's efforts to rewrite his son's story is nothing compared to the way his classmates transform this outcast into their best friend.

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Olivia also poked fun at the critically acclaimed black comedy I, Tonya starring Best Actress winner Margot Robbie, 27, as figure skater Tonya Harding.

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A black comedy about a foul - mouthed police sergeant who may just be the best cop in Ireland... or the worst.

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, already renewed for a second season, beat out Master of None, Black - ish, SMILF and Will & Grace in the Best TV Series, Comedy or Musical category.

«The Nice Guys» is a wall - to - wall - funny action - comedy, a great refinement of director / writer Shane Black's style and one of this summer's best.

What You Need To Know: The supernatural action - comedy is a tricky beast to get right; for every «Ghostbusters» or «Men In Black» there's a... well, «Ghostbusters 2» or «Men In Black 2.»

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

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.

«Cemetery Man» (1994) is a quirky blend of romance, lust, surrealism, horror, and black comedy which transcends the work of better - known Italian horror maestros like Dario Argento thanks to its grotesquely humorous bent.

White most recently co-created, wrote and directed the HBO series «Enlightened,» starring Laura Dern, and wrote the comedies «Year of the Dog,» starring Molly Shannon and John C. Reilly; «The Good Girl,» starring Jennifer Aniston; and «Nacho Libre,» starring Jack Black.

There is rich, black comedy in her tiffs with Reynolds, for example, with one occurring during the best asparagus - related scene since American Beauty, as a surprise dinner for the weary, fussy designer is treated as «an ambush».

Their ensuing black - comedy adventure is grimy, bloody, and ridiculous, as director Macon Blair (best known for his performances in Jeremy Saulnier's Blue Ruin and Green Room) pitches his material as an absurdist neo-noir saga about combatting existential despair.

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The Best Actress, according to FFCC voters, was Margot Robbie for her performance as embattled former figure skater Tonya Harding in the black comedy / biopic I, Tonya.

The 21st century corollary to George Kaufman's maxim that «satire is what closes Saturday night» might well be that indie black comedies — which almost never make money but continue to attract name actors — are what play contractually mandated one - week runs at the Village East before heading off to DVD.

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But there was progress, too: Sterling K Brown became the first black man to win the award for best actor in a TV drama (for This is Us), while Aziz Ansari became the first Asian man to win best actor in a TV comedy (for Master of None).

«Dom Hemingway»: The black comedy follows the travails of an English safecracker (Jude Law), so plot as well as savings likely factored into its London location.

Donald Glover's series took the observational, auteur - driven comedy that FX has nurtured in such shows as «Louie,» «Baskets» and «Better Things» and succeeded, by all accounts, in fulfilling Glover's stated claim — to «show people what it feels like to be black.»