Films Reviews tagged with black comedy
Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa)
The film is an immensely successful genre experiment as a liberal political allegory that can also be enjoyed as a purely entertaining duel between the inexorable forces of good and evil.
Grant Phipps watches...A Zed and Two Noughts (Peter Greenaway)
Greenaway's semi-surrealist black comedy is an impressive and instructive exercise in the cinematic and scientific arts.
Grant Phipps inhabits...Big Fan (Robert D. Siegel)
Siegel's layered and tortuous script is often transfixing, but his directorial amateurism is highlighted through an anxious cutting slideshow.
Grant Phipps is a...A Serious Man (Joel and Ethan Coen)
The genius of the Coen Brothers' modern allegorical craft is extracting the fantastical and stirring from the monotony of daily routine and habitual faith.
Grant Phipps is...After Hours (Martin Scorsese)
Probably the most neglected and eccentric entry in Martin Scorsese's vaunted filmography, After Hours is one the 1980's uncherished masterpieces.
Gary Collins avoids the dark....
