Posts Tagged ‘black-comedy’



Little Shop of Horrors, The (1960)

Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Haze, Jonathan | Joseph, Jackie | Welles, Mel | Miller, Dick | Vail, Myrtle | Kupcinet, Karyn | Michaels, Toby | Wendorff, Leola | Storey, Lynn | Campo, Wally | Warford, Jack | Welles, Meri | Shaner, John Herman | Nicholson, Jack
Directors: Corman, Roger
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Classic black comedy about young schnook who develops a bloodthirsty plant and is forced to kill in order to feed it. The basis for the later hit stage musical.

Ladykillers, The (2004)

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Hanks, Tom | Hall, Irma P. | Wayans, Marlon | J.K. Simmons | Ma, Tzi | Hurst, Ryan | Delano, Diane | Wallace, George | McConnell, John | Weaver, Jason | Root, Stephen | Odums, Lyne | Jordan, Walter K. | Bell, George Anthony | Grunberg, Greg
Directors: Coen, Ethan
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A remake of the 1955 comedy, the story revolves around a Southern professor who puts together a group of thieves to rob a casino. They rent a room in an old woman’s house, but soon she discovers the plot and they must kill her, a task that is more difficult than it seems.

South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut (1999)

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors:
Directors: Parker, Trey
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South Park is a peaceful and quiet town until the Terrence and Phillip movie “Asses Of Fire” hits the theaters. Once that happens, all friggin’ hell breaks loose. After all the kids see the movie, they begin using all the foul and naughty language used in the movie. When the parents discover this, they demand war against Canada. The parents plan to execute Terrence and Phillip. After Kenny gets sent to hell (all thanks to Cartman), he overhears Satan and Saddam Hussien plan to rise to Earth to rule for 2,000,000 years of torture once Terrence and Phillip’s blood touches US soil. Will Cartman’s filthy fucking mouth and V-Chip save the day?

Suffering Man’s Charity aka Ghost Writer (2007)

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Boreanaz, David | Heche, Anne | Fisher, Carrie | Lynch, Jane | Thomas, Henry | Black, Karen | Laas, Maria-Elena | Lefevre, Rachelle | Ospina, Ermahn | Guh, Alison | Allen, Clay | Paul, Kevin | Poole, Tom | Stacy, Brandon
Directors: Cumming, Alan
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John Vandermark (Cumming) has taken in a struggling writer, Sebastian St. Germain (Boreanaz) who overstays his welcome. When John discovers that Sebastian has simply been using him, he turns the tables on his young tenant in an effort to make him work off his rent debt. When Sebastian dies accidentally in the process, John tries to make it up to him by helping him get his book published posthumously. When the book is published, John can’t help but take credit for the work of genius… and Sebastian comes back to haunt him.

Robot Chicken: Star Wars (2007)

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Benrubi, Abraham | Bergen, Bob | Best, Ahmed | Faison, Donald | Fatone, Joey | Ferguson, Keith | Hamill, Mark | Hogan, Hulk | Kane, Tom | Lucas, George | MacFarlane, Seth | McDowell, Malcolm | Meyer, Breckin | Milano, Dan
Directors: Green, Seth
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Robot Chicken’s finest half hour is more savvy than Spaceballs, more inside than Family Guy: Blue Harvest, and funnier, even, than The Star Wars Holiday Special. This Very Special Episode of Comedy Central’s stop-motion animated series parodies and goofs on all things Star Wars, from a disgruntled Empire janitor to an ad for Admiral Ackbar Cereal (”Your tongues can’t repel flavor of that magnitude”). Twenty three minutes goes by like the jump to hyperspace with such priceless bits as the collect phone call to Emperor Palpatine from Darth Vadar to inform him of the Death Star’s destruction, awkward morning-after pillow talk between Luke and Leia (”That was so wrong”), and George Bush’s newfound Jedi powers. Co-creators Seth Green and Matthew Senreich and company immerse viewers in the Robot Chicken universe with generous bonus features, including storyboarded deleted scenes (with self-deprecating commentary), behind the scenes footage of animation meetings, and alternate audio takes. Good sport George Lucas, who gave his blessing to this episode, boldly goes where William Shatner went before by voicing himself in a Star Wars convention sketch that concludes with a Lucas-worshiping geek telling his son that meeting his idol was the best day of his life. What about his son’s birth? “Not even close,” dad replies. But you don’t have to have that kind of devotion to Star Wars to be amused by this weather forecast for Cloud City: “Cloudy, followed by clouds.”

Surviving Christmas (2004)

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Gandolfini, James | Macy, Bill | Affleck, Ben | Applegate, Christina | | Zuckerman, Josh
Directors: Mike Mitchell
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Drew Latham is an executive leading an empty, shallow life with only wealth on his side. Facing another lonely Christmas ahead, Drew wants to revisit his old childhood home and possibly relive some old holiday memories. But when he arrives, he finds that the house he was raised in is no longer the home he grew up in. Inhabited by another family, Drew offers a nice financial reward that has the family ringing. But is Drew’s generous cash offer only the beginning of an annoying visitor whose a little too overeager to celebrate Christmas?

Ref, The (1994)

Monday, December 1st, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Leary, Denis | Davis, Judy | Spacey, Kevin | Steinmiller Jr., Robert J. | Johns, Glynis | Barry, Raymond J. | Bright, Richard | Baranski, Christine | LeFevre, Adam | Nicoll, Phillip | Raab, Ellie | Raymond, Bill | Scurti, John | Turner, Jim | Ade, Herbie
Directors: Demme, Ted
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Denis Leary plays an unfortunate cat burglar, who is abandonded by his partner in the middle of a heist, and is forced to take an irritating Connecticut couple (Kevin Spacey, Judy Davis) hostage. He soon finds that he took more than he bargained for when the couple’s blackmailing son and despicable in-laws step into the picture. Before long they’re driving him nuts with their petty bickering and family problems. The only way for him to survive is to be their referee and resolve their differences, before he can be nabbed by the police.

Pineapple Express (2008)

Monday, December 1st, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Rogen, Seth | Franco, James | Dunn, Nora | Ahn, Rio | Carson, Sam | Cole, Gary | Crosby, Adam | Flisher, Rich | Hader, Bill | Jeong, Ken | Khoo, Jourdan Lee | Lewis, Peter | Lo Truglio, Joe | Longstreet, Robert | McBride, Danny R.
Directors: Green, David Gordon
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Lazy stoner Dale Denton has only one reason to visit his equally lazy dealer Saul Silver: to purchase weed, specifically, a rare new strain called Pineapple Express. But when Dale becomes the only witness to a murder by a crooked cop and the city’s most dangerous drug lord, he panics and dumps his roach of Pineapple Express at the scene. Dale now has another reason to visit Saul: to find out if the weed is so rare that it can be traced back to him. And it is. As Dale and Saul run for their lives, they quickly discover that they’re not suffering from weed-fueled paranoia; incredibly, the bad guys really are hot on their trail and trying to figure out the fastest way to kill them both. All aboard the Pineapple Express.

Dark Knight, The (2008)

Monday, December 1st, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bale, Christian | Caine, Michael | Ledger, Heath | Eckhart, Aaron | Gyllenhaal, Maggie | Oldman, Gary | Freeman, Morgan | Roberts, Eric | Murphy, Cillian | Hall, Anthony Michael | Curnen, Monique | Carbonell, Nestor | Harto, Joshua | White, Michael Jai | McFarlane, Colin
Directors: Nolan, Christopher
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Right after taking out Ra’s Al Ghul’s plan and the mysterious disappearance of Dr. Jonathan Crane AKA Scarecrow, Batman continues his seemingly-endless effort to bring justice to Gotham’s crime and corrupt with the help of Lt. James Gordon and new appointed District Attorney Harvey Dent. But this time, The Dark Knight faces a rising psychopathic criminal called The Joker, who’s eerie grin makes him more dangerous than what he has yet to unleash. It becomes an agenda to both enemies that only one of them remains and are willing to break every part of what they believe in to stop the other.

Creepshow III (2006)

Monday, November 24th, 2008
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Fantasy | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Pettee, Stephanie | Abramsohn, Roy | Schramm, Susan | Gibson, Bunny | Fromm, Matt | Kirkland, Nathan | Pinkard, Selma | Knox, Kalena | Jacobs, Brian | Millán, Leonardo | Avila, Magi | Lugo, Margarita | Gonzales, Robert | Burzynski, Simon | Rank, Rami
Directors: Clavell, Ana
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There are five new tales of horror and suspense in this follow-up to George A. Romero & Stephen King’s 1982 horror anthology classic. In “Alice”, a snotty teenage girl gets her just desserts in the form of a demonic universal television remote. In “The Radio”, a security guard is driven to the very brink of madness and eventually murder thanks to a possessed radio. Next up, in “Call Girl” a murdering, cold-blooded prostitute accidentally hooks up with a vampire client. In “The Professor’s Wife”, a demented professor with a taste for pranks tricks his two best students into believing he’s getting married. But there’s something rather sinister about his new bride-to-be. Lastly, in “Haunted Dog”, a cruel miserly doctor kills a homeless man by purposely giving him a contaminated hotdog - a tale of savage revenge from beyond the grave.