Sentences with phrase «surreal comedy»

A meandering, whimsically surreal comedy with an indie / Euro sensibility that wants to say something important about Life but never really gets around to it; fortunately, there are some standout individual scenes from the top - notch cast, including a running NORTH BY NORTHWEST gag.

Loses its way in the 2nd half and could do with pruning by 20 minutes but this is largely a brilliantly dark surreal comedy which needles into 21st Century relationships and dating.

«At a time when anxiety is running especially high across the country, the return of Lady Dynamite's mix of surreal comedy and groundbreaking exploration of mental illness couldn't be more welcome.

Yet, as super-polished, mannered and slightly surreal comedies go, it feels as rare as a unicorn.

It doesn't seem new for them, yet as super polished, mannered, slightly surreal comedies go, the movie feels as rare as a unicorn.

equal points, and your opponents are a bunch of crazies in a twisted mix of automotive killing machines.The game features anarchic drive - wherever - you - like gameplay and over-the-top surreal comedy violence.

Originally released for the PC in 1997, Carmageddon was an instant hit thanks to its anarchic gameplay and over-the-top surreal comedy violence.

[Cold Fever is] an undiluted pleasure, a road movie combining often surreal comedy and a wealth of gorgeous visuals, capturing Iceland at its most hauntingly ethereal.

«To Rome With Love «is Woody Allen's most comical farce — his most straight ahead surreal comedy since his early 70s films.

Oh, and one completely surreal comedy sketch series from Scotland.

Instead she ploughed her own distinctive furrow, playing a neurotic teenager in Kevin Macdonald's dark dystopian drama How I Live Now, and a resourceful maid in Wes Anderson's surreal comedy Grand Budapest Hotel.

The filmmaker who hit with the equally strange comedy, Dogtooth, returns to bring yet another dry and somewhat surreal comedy that may just have you cringing in your seat as much as it has you rolling.

«After Hours» is a decidedly un-Scorseseish Martin Scorsese film: a light, goofy and surreal comedy with no real stakes.

The surreal comedy, written and directed by Della Sciucca and presented by Lindsay - Hogg, touches on ethical issues including meat eating and the harm done to the environment by the livestock industry.

Paul Giamatti stars in this surreal comedy as an actor paralyzed by anxiety who decides to have his soul extracted by a high - tech company in order to alleviate his suffering but complications ensue when a mysterious soul - trafficking mule steals his soul and takes it to Russia.

The clinically analytical director has come up with a surreal comedy about sex that comes as close to charming as Greenaway ever gets.

Yorgos Lanthimos» The Lobster can be perceived to be any number of things — surreal comedy, dystopian sci - fi, romance, drama, prison thriller — and all these genres it may be, but these are just the surface stylings of a director who has given one of the sharpest relationship satires in recent years.

A simple love story between a squirmy milquetoast (Sandler) and the woman (Emily Watson) who yanks him from his stark blue shell, the film is part musical, part silent film and all surreal comedy.

Yorgos Lanthimos» surreal comedy, which stars Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, John C Reilly and Ben Whishaw, is set in the near - future, where being single is illegal.

Charlie Sheen, Bill Murray and Jason Schwartzman star in this surreal comedy about Swan, a ladies man and graphic designer in the 1970s, whose life is thrown into a heartbroken tailspin after his girlfriend dumps him.

Writer - director David O. Russell has made three kinds of movies: offbeat romances («Flirting With Disaster»), surreal comedies («I Heart Huckabees») and dramas about dysfunctional yet appealing families («The Fighter»).

Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz have touched down at the Cannes Film Festival to promote their latest movie, The Lobster, a surreal comedy which pokes fun at the dating game.

The Darjeeling Limited: Criterion Edition Rated R for language Available on DVD and Blu - ray Wes Anderson's film about three brothers (Owen Wilson, Adrian Brody and Jason Schwartzman) traveling through India to visit their missionary mom is getting the ultimate collectors touch with this new Criterion set which contains tons of great special features and everything you would ever want to know about what went on in the making of the surreal comedy.

I heard a lot about the surreal comedy style of Wright's Spaced, so I was a little surprised to learn that the main premise for this show is two people in their twenties in an apartment in London.

Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin originally formed the surreal comedy group in 1969.

And that's a long way from the strangest thing you'll be doing over the next few hours, in this bizarre blend of detective drama, surreal comedy and psychological thriller.