Sentences with phrase «very black comedy»

However, despite the stark nature, before you know it the film shifts from being a character drama to a very black comedy and it's here that Slattery's inexperience in calling the shots comes to the fore.

It's a great little whodunit with a very black comedy approach.

There are lots of black comedies, which are usually quite edgy, then there are really, really black comedies, and Bobcat Goldthwait (of Sleeping Dogs Lie, World's Greatest Dad) is one of the kings of those very black comedies.

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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.

Craig Gillespie's take on Tonya's story, the hilarious and gut - punching I, Tonya, is a nearly pitch - perfect black comedy that distills the sensational story into two potent insights very relevant to 2017.

At times, this feels like a slightly milder version of Peter Berg's generally reviled Very Bad Things, a 1998 black comedy also about a Las Vegas bachelor party gone grotesquely awry.

People do very bad things in Very Bad Things, but in a black comedy it isn't so much what you do as how you do it, and Berg hasn't the gallows humor to turn this excursion into bad taste from a sick idea to the despicably funny film it shouldvery bad things in Very Bad Things, but in a black comedy it isn't so much what you do as how you do it, and Berg hasn't the gallows humor to turn this excursion into bad taste from a sick idea to the despicably funny film it shouldVery Bad Things, but in a black comedy it isn't so much what you do as how you do it, and Berg hasn't the gallows humor to turn this excursion into bad taste from a sick idea to the despicably funny film it should be.

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.

The inbred lowlifes in this B - movie black comedy are members of the Smith family, a clan of troglodytes in a seedy Texas trailer park replete with vicious barking dogs on chains, who swing into ruthless high gear from the very first scene, when penny - ante drug dealer Chris Smith (a game turn by Emile Hirsch, who has grown from the appealing, open - faced kid in The Emperor's Club into a scabby, hirsute roughneck) arrives in a torrential rainstorm and is greeted at the screen door by his father's new wife Sharla with a female full - frontal.

VERY BAD THINGS: Black comedy.

Matthew Perry is very funny in this black comedy about a dentist whose wife hires a hit man to kill him.

That is how writer - director Peter Berg's black comedy «Very Bad Things» begins.

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.

Richard Eyre's (Stage Beauty, Iris) direction is tight and virtually lag - free, treading the line between drama, thriller, and black comedy in a very adept fashion.

A very broad comedy — certainly not black in hue, but perhaps a mild shade of gray — set in Queen Anne, Volunteer Park, and other picturesque locations with views of the Space Needle, plus the (film insider joke!)

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

His first movie, «Man Up,» was like an exercise with filmmaking using very broad comedy, but this movie has a grittier vibe, as shot in black and white and an aggressive title.

The Wolf of Wall Street sees him navigating black comedy territory for the first time in a long while, and Wolf very much looks to be in the vein of the director's classic Goodfellas.

Rich and Strange is a strange entry indeed in the Alfred Hitchcock filmography, but his sensibility is very much present in the stragne social satire and black comedy.

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.

This film may look like one of those annoyingly mannered independent films, with its wacky young cast and arty - farty black and white photography, but it's actually a fresh, smart and very funny 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.

His new series, Mary Kills People, a black comedy about the controversial practice of euthanasia, is something very different.

«Seven Psychopaths», a self - reflexive black comedy where the main punchline is that its script is being written before our very eyes.

The bro, mad scientist was an interesting take; he adds black comedy and suspense to the film (you can never fully read him, but still manages to remain very charismatic).

There are some very amusing black comedy moments but the lack of humanity means this bunch of losers, each defined only by their failings, ultimately just seem sadly grotesque.

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With a very funny script and a terrific sense of black humour, this quirky family comedy keeps us laughing even as it gets strongly emotional.

And back he comes to his hometown of Glasgow to make his directorial debut with a very Scottish - centric black comedy.

It's also very funny, Peele never afraid to exploit the material as a twisted comedy of manners, particularly when Chris is shown off like a prize trophy to Dean and Missy's moneyed friends («Black is the new trend!»

The movie features a bevy of hot young actresses, a streak of black comedy and more than a few grisly death scenes that almost make up for the fact that the film's very existence is completely unnecessary.

Toby Maguire and Elizabeth Banks star in the black comedy The Details (2011, R) as a suburban Seattle couple who make some very bad choices and Q'orianka Kilcher is Princess Kaiulani (2009, PG) in the dignified but sanitized story of the last princess of Hawaii.

Headhunters is a very ambitious film that expects its audience to stick with it through a wild ride through film genres, starting with light - hearted comedy, progressing through heist film, black comedy, thriller, back to heist film before finishing back at quiet comedy.

Led by an amazing performance by the very talented Margot Robbie, I, Tonya is a wildly entertaining black comedy and biopic of American figure skater Tonya Harding, a former U.S. Champion best known for her involvement in a 1994 incident in which fellow skater Nancy Kerrigan was attacked at the Cobo Arena with a police baton.

Saulnier doesn't do a terribly good job of individuating the band members — Anton Yelchin and Alia Shawkat, neither of whom seems very punk, make the strongest impression, alongside Imogen Poots (who does seem punk) as the murder victim's best friend — but he confirms his expertise at blending sudden, truly ugly violence with ghastly black comedy.

Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Blacks Serve as Brunt of the Jokes in Insensitive Buddy Comedy In the opening scene of Grown Ups, a black kid (Jameel McGill) who has very obviously double - dribbled during a basketball game unreasonably calls the referee a racist for blowing the whistle on him.

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.

The black and white does lend things a melancholic air, though it's not so dazzling that we can't imagine it'll look just fine on the small screen in color too, and the sour - sweet mix, so important to this kind of comedy, errs impressively, if not always convincingly on the sour side, with very few moments of kindness not undercut by something meaner, until we get to the small uplift of the final moments.

But despite some very welcome black comedy — Jimmi Simpson appears delightfully, but too briefly, as a passive - aggressive co-worker who threatens to unravel the cocoon of delusion in which Emanuel has wrapped herself — the movie, trapped in the weeds of self - pity and skin - deep badassery, never quite earns the sympathy it so strenuously solicits.

«A wry black comedy drawing from British crime fiction and media, University of Life is a punchy and often - times very funny novel with a colorful cast.