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Director Melvin Van Peebles’s interesting but undernourished 1970 race relations satirical comedy Watermelon Man stars Godfrey Cambridge as a white, married bigot, suburban insurance agent Jeff Gerber, who turns black overnight through a biological accident. […]
[Spoiler alert] The vivacious personalities of Michael Keaton and Geena Davis greatly enliven director Ron Underwood’s engaging, unfairly UK straight-to-video 1994 romantic comedy Speechless, about two rival political speech-writers who find that opposites attract, fighting […]
Director Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit (2019) is a bold but awkward, uneasy World War Two Germany surreal satirical comedy, with its major plus points in the performances of Roman Griffin Davis as troubled, lonely 10-year-old […]
Writer-executive producer-director-star Eddie Murphy’s 1989 Thirties gangster movie Harlem Nights is a very handsome-looking film, produced on opulent sets, with a terrific score by Herbie Hancock and soundtrack by Duke Ellington, and charismatic acting from […]
Packed with comic passion, Pietro Germi’s thoroughly entertaining 1961 Italian commedia nera [black comedy] film Divorce Italian Style [Divorzio all’Italiana] stars the indispensable Marcello Mastroianni as a poverty-stricken Sicilian aristocrat, Baron Ferdinando Cefalù, who wants […]
Director Peter Jackson’s 1996 supernatural black comedy horror thriller The Frighteners, in the style of Beetlejuice complete with a Danny Elfman score, is poundingly pacey, reasonably scary and original enough, but, when the brilliant special […]
‘From the creators of Bad Taste, comes a film with no taste at all!’ Director Peter Jackson’s warped, outrageous and disgusting 1989 New Zealand musical black comedy cult movie Meet the Feebles establishes his horror […]