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THE SHAKEDOWN

August 8, 2024 By Leave a Comment

THE SHAKEDOWN

Ari Kruger’s THE SHAKEDOWN is a bonkers black comedy that celebrates family values with a body count. A heady blend of sibling rivalry, slick salesmanship, and a rabbi with a gambling problem, it takes the buddy film in unpredictable directions as two estranged brothers cope with a simple plan gone very wrong after one of… Read More »

Tagged With: black comedy, blackmail, diamond necklace, gangster, mistress, Shabbat dinner, sibling rivalry, South Africa

KNEE CAP — Rich Peppiatt, Móglaí Bap, and DJ Próvai Interview

August 1, 2024 By Leave a Comment

KNEE CAP — Rich Peppiatt, Móglaí Bap, and DJ Próvai Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. Rich Peppiatt convinced the Irish rap group Kneecap to let him tell their story during a long night of drinking. It’s one of the many things we talked about with two members of that group, Móglaí Bap, and JJ DJ Próvai, on July 26, 2024. There was a… Read More »

Tagged With: black comedy, Bobby Sands, Danu, dark comedy, death squads, feminine energy, Generational trauma, Irish language, Irish Language March, Irish Rap, Loyalists, Mother Goddess of Ireland, mother tongue, Native Americans, oral history, prison Irish, PTSD, Queen Maeve, Republicans, SXSW, Texas, West Belfast

A GHOST WAITS

February 7, 2021 By Leave a Comment

A GHOST WAITS

While it is tempting to think of A GHOST WAITS as merely one of the best love story involving a ghost since THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR, there is a great deal more going on director/co-writer Adam Stovall’s witty, cinematically rich, yet philosophically dense effort. At the risk of being accused of overthinking it, one… Read More »

Tagged With: afterlife, black comedy, disappearing pizza, ghosts, haunted house, proletariat struggle, romance, scary clowns

I BLAME SOCIETY

January 11, 2021 By Leave a Comment

I BLAME SOCIETY

I’m not giving anything away to tell you the punch line in Gillian Wallace Horvat’s I BLAME SOCIETY. It’s a perfectly timed, and even more perfectly delivered explanation about the film her character made in the course of this vicious, and viciously funny satire: I’m sorry it didn’t meet your expectations, I didn’t make it… Read More »

Tagged With: black comedy, blonde, likeable female lead, patriarchy, pointed social commentary, satire, serial killer, strong female lead

PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN

December 29, 2020 By Leave a Comment

PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN

It’s only right that a revenge story with a savage punch line should also have a savage sense of humor. And so it is with PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN, a tale of rage against the patriarchy in which the testosterone-heavy are not the only problem, and one woman’s refusal to let a crime go unacknowledged makes… Read More »

Tagged With: black comedy, punch link, revenge, sexual assault

THE HUNT

March 22, 2020 By Leave a Comment

THE HUNT

No one is spared in Nick Cuse and Damon Lindelof’s THE HUNT, nor, as, will be revealed by the end, should they be. Our intrepid filmmakers have eschewed taking sides in the current political morass, instead opting for a more challenging take on the foibles of human nature itself. A bold move guaranteed to raise… Read More »

Tagged With: black comedy, metaphor, political correctness, satire

THE ART OF SELF-DEFENSE

July 13, 2019 By Leave a Comment

THE ART OF SELF-DEFENSE

As a trenchant examination of the roots, expression, and consequences of toxic masculinity, THE ART OF SELF DEFENSE has no peers. As a black comedy told with a straight face and a tone of conviction, it is a first rate guilty pleasure. Any film that can draw guffaws as a small child is gently choked… Read More »

Tagged With: black comedy, coma, cultural criticism, dachshund, karate, motorcycle gang, social commentary, toxic masculinity

PUSHING DEAD with Tom E. Brown

June 18, 2016 By Leave a Comment

PUSHING DEAD with Tom E. Brown

One of the first things I established with Tom E. Brown when I spoke with him on June 17, 2016 was that his debut feature film, PUSHING DEAD, was not autobiographical. It does, however, reflect his mordant sense of humor about living with HIV+ status, and it includes an interlude where a character is pelted… Read More »

Tagged With: absurdity, AIDS, black comedy, diagnosis, Frameline, health insurance, HIV, HIV meds, narrative film, salvage therapy, San Francisco, Sundance Labs

IN BRUGES with Martin McDonagh

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

IN BRUGES with Martin McDonagh

Martin McDonagh has the same sort of dark, yet whimsical sense of humor with which his film IN BRUGES, is rife. When I talked with him on January 30, 2008, the twisted way in which he examines morality was top of my list of thing I wanted to discuss, as well as the redefinition of… Read More »

Tagged With: Belgium, black comedy, Brendan Gleeson, cinema, Colin Farrell, crime, director, ethics, film, Heironymous Bosch, hitmen, IN BRUGES, Irish Cinema, Martin McDonagh, masculinity, morality, movie, murder, narrative, philosophy, thriller

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