Tag Archives: Black Comedy

Review in Brief: Beau is Afraid (2023)

Posted on February 24, 2024 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

Thanks to Ari for letting us sit in on his bewildering self-therapy. BEAU IS AFRAID is best described as an epic anxiety horror. It could certainly be considered funny, but funny-peculiar. Beau (Joaquin Phoenix) is a man-child still under the … Continue reading →

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The Holdovers (2023) Review

Posted on January 24, 2024 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

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Poor Things (2023) Review

Posted on November 10, 2023 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

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Review in Brief: Infinity Pool (2023)

Posted on July 20, 2023 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

Along with Julie Ducournau, Brandon Cronenberg is one of the most exciting, twisted directors to break through in the last decade. His latest uncomfortably funny sensory assault INFINITY POOL follows James (Alexander Skarsgård) a struggling author who has married rich … Continue reading →

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Review in Brief: The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)

Posted on December 28, 2022 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

In Martin McDonagh’s latest dark fable, friends become separable on an island off Ireland small enough to not be able to avoid each other. Day after day Pádraic (Colin Farrell) and Colm (Brendan Gleeson) meet at the pub and chatter … Continue reading →

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Review in Brief: Do Revenge (2022)

Posted on December 14, 2022 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

DO REVENGE is MEAN GIRLS meets STRANGERS ON A TRAIN, but with plenty of choice 90s needle drops. After a humiliating sex tape is leaked to her prep school, former queen bee Drea Torres (Camila Mendes) makes a deal with … Continue reading →

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Review in Brief: Limbo (2020/21)

Posted on December 15, 2021 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

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 →

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Review in Brief: Titane (2021)

Posted on November 16, 2021 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

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 →

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Review in Brief: The Toll (2021)

Posted on September 14, 2021 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

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 →

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Review in Brief: Riders of Justice (2020)

Posted on August 21, 2021 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

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 →

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