Sentences with phrase «more black comedy»

I was about 9 when this came out and even by this point, it was more black comedy than horror.

It's more a black comedy wrapped around a great central concept.

Not exact matches

On the first Pappa Lazarou claims another victim for his harem... More hilarious impressions and black comedy sketches from BBC's The League of Gentlemen.

Pappa Lazarou claims another victim for his harem... More hilarious impressions and black comedy sketches from BBC's The League of Gentlemen.

That being said, Very Bad Things is ultimately redeemed by a finale that's just jaw - dropping in its cruelty towards the remaining survivors - thus clinching the movie's status as one of the more effective black comedies to come around in quite some time.

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.

Not quite a car crash of a movie, Boorman's uneven black comedy is more like a fender - bender.

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.

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.

If Pedro Almodóvar, especially in his early days, had directed this film, he might have brought out the black comedy inherent in the piece, which would have made both the blackness and the comedy more fully resonate.

Perhaps the more astonishing thing is that this movie is a black comedy about domestic violence, parental abuse, and low self - esteem... and it works.

The result is a comedy so black that it recalls the words of the immortal Nigel Tufnel: It could be «none more black.»

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.

What I've gradually come to realize is that it's nothing more than a black comedy, and an unintentional one... I think.

Overall, «Very Bad Things» is not always believable, and it's sometimes more disturbing than funny, but it's still a raucously fun black comedy.

Fox's new comedy - drama Lucifer has a similar premise [as «Death Takes a Holiday and «Meet Joe Black»], but without the sap and more zip and lip.

Someone should've told Bergie that black comedies require more than grisly deaths and scant pieces of hystericaly aimless dialogue to qualify as plausible cinema.

You might think this would set the stage for a black comedy, but director Christine Jeffs and screenwriter Megan Holley opt for a less showy, more mundane approach.

Unafraid to inhabit the ragged edges, she captures the black comedy that's at the core of this gritty independent drama, making audiences ache for more LaVona while keeping Rogers» original idea for the film intact.

The comedy is broad, and this is certainly more multiplex - friendly than Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, however, so those who hold that earlier Black film in high regard might be left feeling a bit unfulfilled.

They Came Together has pretty much everyone you'd want for a comedy cast: Amy Poehler, Paul Rudd, Ed Helms, Michael Ian Black, Jason Mantzoukas, Cobie Smulders, Christopher Meloni, and more.

The trailer itself sells a movie that looks far more approachable than most of Wheatley's work so far — his penchant for combining grisly violence with black comedy is on full display, but it's wrapped in a package that could be appealing to audiences who found the psychedelic A Field in England too weird or Kill List too oblique.

Black's involvement is far more significant than his «80s action track - record, as his barnstormingly clever, postmodern film noir comedy, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, was fundamental in relaunching Robert Downey Jr's career, post-rehab.

The movie has even drawn some comparisons to «Trainspotting,» even if the pitch - black comedy feels more like another book - to - film cult classic, «Fight Club.»

Standing in stark contrast to Berg's more cineplex friendly recent work, «Very Bad Things» is a pitch - black comedy that moves -LSB-...]

Much more of a paranoid thriller than a black comedy, The Manchurian Candidate will probably never be heralded as a great film, even if it were a wholly original work.

Like Headhunters, which was also based on a Jo Nesbo story, this Norwegian thriller almost plays more like a black comedy than an action movie.

The actress, 60, won her first Academy Award more than 20 years ago for her role as the pregnant police chief in the Coen brothers» black comedy «Fargo» and currently stands one Grammy shy of EGOT status.

As the film moves from lighthearted to pitch black comedy, it also becomes scarier and more violent.

To read more coverage of the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, go here Corey Finley's Thoroughbreds is an espresso shot of the sort of the pitch - black comedy that Hollywood has become afraid to touch.

Here, the film makes a sharp turn into a «Saturday Night Live» - type broad comedy complete with grotesque religious stereotypes, none more cringeworthy than Brett channeling a black pastor in a sermon that borders on minstrelsy.

What follows will hopefully be more Men in Black than RIPD, livening up the usual buddy comedy with a layer of ectoplasmic slime.

He seemed to be moving towards a more personal cinema (there were autobiographical elements in The Hairdress's Husband), but now with Tango (15) he has done something of a U-turn, with a selfconsciously outrageous black comedy about what used to be called «the sex war», before anybody had given the subject much thought.

We follow cardiologist Steven Murphy (Colin Farrell in full black comedy form, wearing a survivalist beard) as he navigates life or... Read More»

Sony's hard at work on a spinoff for their»90s sci - fi comedy film series Men in Black, but now it's looking a little more like a reunion for the stars of Thor: Ragnarok.

Midge's early cab ride downtown evokes an idealized movie musical as the scenery outside the cab grows more vivid; a fitness class populated by wives in pastels and divorcées in black provides the backdrop to some winningly frantic banter (and physical comedy) between Brosnahan and De Young.

His delicate touch enhanced the you - are - there Pacific Northwest naturalism of Kelly Reichardt's Wendy and Lucy (2008), and his ability to paint more «luscious» images (this is a favorite word, as you'll see) helped create the anxiously attuned worlds of three Noah Baumbach pictures (including the French New Wavy black - and - white of 2012's Frances Ha) and the bright Manhattan romantic comedy of Rebecca Miller's Maggie's Plan (2015).

Indeed, although King has tempered his combustible brand of black comedy into something more stable and wholesome (although there are still plenty of hidden treats for fans of The Mighty Boosh), Paddington stands out because it never once feels safe or overly sanitised.

By Sean O'Connell Hollywoodnews.com: «One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,» Milos Forman's Best Picture - winning black comedy from 1975, will receive a special anniversary release from Warner Home Video on Sept. 7, Arriving in an Ultimate Collector's Edition DVD or Blu - ray loaded with more than four hours of bonus content.

9:35 am — Sundance — A Girl Cut in Two One of the last films from great French director Claude Chabrol before his death, with Ludivine Sagnier as an up - and - coming TV personality faced with choosing between two men — with Chabrol at the helm, you know there's more than that to it, and his touch for black comedy thrillers should make this one an enjoyable watch.

Usually actors in black comedies rarely snag a nod if they are submitted as the lead — supporting roles more often nab the nomination — but I'll never underestimate Colin Farrell.

The movie is reminiscent of older - school art films, offering a broad humanistic lesson with absurdism and black comedy more sad than barbed.

They seem to be randomly cast in this McDonagh flick, but that just makes me all the more excited to see what they have to offer this black comedy.

Like I said, I love your movies, and I truly hope that you continue to do more great and hilarious works of arts, comedy, and action, but, as a black movie buff and a film studies student, PLEASE INCLUDE MORE PEOPLE OF COLOR IN YOUR FUTURE FImore great and hilarious works of arts, comedy, and action, but, as a black movie buff and a film studies student, PLEASE INCLUDE MORE PEOPLE OF COLOR IN YOUR FUTURE FIMORE PEOPLE OF COLOR IN YOUR FUTURE FILMS.

Danny Boyle is one of the more underrated mainstream directors working today; he's been able to spin films as different as pitch - black comedy (Trainspotting) to apocalyptic zombie thriller (28 Days Later) with genuinely good results (let us not speak of The Beach).

As with the recently reviewed Little Black Book, Without A Paddle brings a little more to the table than the average comedy, although it is much dumber than the aforementioned film.

More than a year after it made a splash at the Sundance Film Festival, Cory Finley's blackly comic thriller (or is a thrilling black comedy?)

Oddly, my most anticipated films seem to fall on the most crowded days: also on the menu is François Ozon's «Potiche,» reuniting Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu once more, «Post Mortem» from Pablo Marrain (director of the wicked Chilean black comedy «Tony Manero»), and, surprisingly under the radar, Martin Scorsese's documentary «A Letter to Elia,» a tribute to Elia Kazan made in collaboration with critic Kent Jones.

Also it has a really great streak of black comedy, which makes the bad behavior so much more fun to watch.»

So far the Hollywood movies screening at Cannes — Woody Allen's romantic roundelay «Cafe Society,» starring Kristen Stewart, Shane Black's hit - man comedy «Nice Guys» starring Ryan Gosling, and Jodie Foster's Wall Street thriller «Money Monster» starring George Clooney and Julia Roberts — have played out of competition, more as red - carpet plays and marketing junkets than surefire Oscar launches.