About SSP
Personal Links
Tag Archives: Black Comedy
Review in Brief: Limbo (2020/21)
Black comic immigration drama LIMBO couldn’t have a better backdrop than the Outer Hebrides in Scotland, literally removing displaced people from the rest of the world and placing them in a state of purgatory. Syrian musician Omar (Amir El-Masry) and … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review, Review in Brief
Tagged Amir El-Masry, Ben Sharrock, Black Comedy, Drama, Limbo, Vikash Bhai
1 Comment
Review in Brief: Titane (2021)
TITANE, isn’t that the car-f***ing movie? Yes, and so much more. Writer-director Julia Ducornau (RAW) has, within five years, unleashed on the world two of the most transcendent, bold and both warm and messed up films of the 21st century … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review, Review in Brief
Tagged Agethe Rouselle, Black Comedy, Horror, Julia Ducournau, Raw, Thriller, Titane, Vincent Lindon, World Cinema
Leave a comment
Review in Brief: The Toll (2021)
You don’t get a Welsh gangster film every day, but THE TOLL makes you feel that’s a damn shame. It’s low-key stylish and non-linear, like PULP FICTION if it wasn’t as pleased with itself, with a rich seam of gallows … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review, Review in Brief
Tagged Annes Elwy, Black Comedy, Crime Film, Gangster Film, Iwan Rheon, Michael Smiley, Paul Kaye, Ryan Andrew Hooper, The Toll
Leave a comment
Review in Brief: Riders of Justice (2020)
From its fable-like opening to its really rather schmaltzy Christmas closing moments and all the sudden acts of violence in-between, Anders Thomas Jensen’s RIDERS OF JUSTICE consistently delivers the unexpected. Markus (Mads Mikkelsen) returns home from military deployment to look … Continue reading
Deerskin (2019) Review
Posted in Film, Film Review, The Film Magazine
Tagged Adèle Haenel, Black Comedy, Deerskin, Jean Dujardin, Quentin Dupieux, World Cinema
Leave a comment
Review in Brief: Rare Beasts (2019/21)
Billie Piper’s directorial debut RARE BEASTS is one of the funniest and most profound, but also perhaps the most uncomfortable of films to watch this year. From an opening dinner date scene incorporating discussion of “gummy blowjobs”, Piper is completely … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review, Review in Brief
Tagged Billie Piper, Black Comedy, David Thewlis, Drama, Kerry Fox, Leo Bill, Rare Beasts, Toby Woolf
1 Comment
Review in Brief: Black Bear (2020/21)
There have been plenty of meta, reality-bending films about writing a screenplay, many from this century made by Charlie Kaufman. BLACK BEAR boasts a wonderful performance from Aubrey Plaza as an actor turned-writer-director looking for inspiration, but asks you to … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review, Review in Brief
Tagged Aubrey Plaza, Black Bear, Black Comedy, Christopher Abbott, Drama, Lawrence Michael Levine, Sarah Gadon
Leave a comment
Review in Brief: I Care a Lot (2020/21)
You can easily see why I CARE A LOT has been a divisive film. One ever-reliable truism to fall back on when talking about what makes a compelling film is that a protagonist doesn’t have to be likeable but they … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review, Review in Brief
Tagged Black Comedy, Chris Messina, Diane Wiest, I Care a Lot, J Blakeson, Peter Dinklage, Rosamund Pike, Thriller
Leave a comment
SSP Thinks Film 