Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "black comedy"

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Fun with Dick and Jane ** (2005, Jim Carrey, Téa Leoni, Alec Baldwin, Richard Jenkins) – Classic Movie Review 11,936

Director Dean Parisot’s 2005 American black comedy remake film Fun with Dick and Jane stars Jim Carrey and Téa Leoni, and is written by Judd Apatow and Nicholas Stoller, based on Gerald Gaiser’s story and […]

Feb, 16

Man Bites Dog (1992, Benoît Poelvoorde, Jacqueline Poelvoorde-Pappaert, Nelly Pappaert, Hector Pappaert) – Classic Movie Review 10,951

Unluckily for us, Benoît Poelvoorde plays a thieving psychopathic serial killer called Ben, who takes a camera crew around with him to film his murders, in the 1992 Belgian satirical black comedy mockumentary film Man […]

Feb, 22

Drowning by Numbers **** (1988, Bernard Hill, Joan Plowright, Juliet Stevenson, Joely Richardson) – Classic Movie Review 10,642

Writer-director Peter Greenaway’s extremely dark 1988 comedy drama Drowning by Numbers – about a coroner (Bernard Hill) and his relationships with three generations of women all named Cissie Colpitts (Joan Plowright, Juliet Stevenson and Joely […]

Dec, 09

Air America * (1990, Mel Gibson, Robert Downey Jr, Nancy Travis) – Classic Movie Review 10,625

Director Roger Spottiswoode’s 1990 film Air America stars Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr as maverick veteran pilot Gene Ryack (Gibson) and cheeky young upstart Billy Covington (Downey Jr), who work together as renegade aviators […]

Dec, 04

What a Way to Go! * (1964, Shirley MacLaine, Robert Cummings, Dick Van Dyke, Robert Mitchum, Gene Kelly, Dean Martin, Paul Newman) – Classic Movie Review 10,279

Director J Lee Thompson’s 1964 compendium black comedy What a Way to Go! stars Shirley MacLaine as a four-time widow. Witty Broadway authors Betty Comden and Adolph Green (Singin’ in the Rain) write the screenplay, based […]

Sep, 08

Meet the Applegates * (1990, Ed Begley Jr, Stockard Channing, Dabney Coleman ) – Classic Movie Review 10,193

Director Michael Lehmann’s 1990 Meet the Applegates is a defiantly peculiar surreal fantasy comedy about a colony of giant bugs from South America masquerading as a typical US family. The dad, Richard P Applegate (Ed […]

Aug, 18

Bride of Re-Animator [Re-Animator 2] * (1990, Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Claude Earl Jones) Classic Movie Review 9562

Director Brian Yuzna’s 1990 Re-Animator sequel Bride of Re-Animator [Re-Animator 2] is a dull horror comic, enlivened by amusing touches of black humour (‘better watch out for premature re-animation’) and some typical gross-out make-up effects […]

Mar, 26

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