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Posts Tagged "black comedy"
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Watermelon Man ** (1970, Godfrey Cambridge, Estelle Parsons, Howard Caine) – Classic Movie Review 9443
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. […]
Speechless *** (1994, Michael Keaton, Geena Davis, Christopher Reeve) – Classic Movie Review 9247
[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 […]
Jojo Rabbit *** (2019, Roman Griffin Davis, Thomasin McKenzie, Scarlett Johansson, Sam Rockwell) – Movie Review
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 […]
Harlem Nights * (1989, Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx, Danny Aiello, Michael Lerner, Della Reese) – Classic Movie Review 9158
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 […]
Divorce Italian Style **** (1961, Marcello Mastroianni, Daniela Rocca, Stefania Sandrelli) – Classic Movie Review 8686
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 […]
The Frighteners *** (1996, Michael J Fox, Trini Alvarado, Peter Dobson) – Classic Movie Review 8418
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 […]
Meet the Feebles * (1989, Danny Mulheron, Donna Akersten, Stuart Devenie) – Classic Movie Review 8417
‘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 […]