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-5 posts tagged "black comedy"
Anna Falk | Monday, January 31, 2022
I must preface this article by saying that I have been exposed to very little horror media in my lifetime. I chickened out after the first two episodes of “American Horror Story.” Even just watching someone play “Five Nights at Freddy’s” upsets me to the bone. With this in mind, I don’t expect anyone to
Angela Mathew | Monday, April 12, 2021
2019 Oscar winner “Parasite” was screened at DPAC this past Saturday in black and white. The South Korean film is a black comedy about class tension in which the poor Kim family use deception to obtain service jobs in the house of the wealthy Park family. “Parasite” suggests that it’s not just the poor who
Mia Marroquin | Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Picture this: It’s a Friday night in your childhood bedroom and you splurge $20 to stream the latest from girl-power director Emerald Fennell, starring Carey Mulligan and out-from-the-shadows YouTuber-turned-actor Bo Burnham. The film you have chosen, “Promising Young Woman,” is a fast paced, thought-provoking piece that is sure to leave viewers questioning the effectiveness of
Caroline Lezny | Tuesday, December 3, 2019
Comedian Daniel Sloss strides onto stage in Sydney, Australia, to begin his new comedy special and invites the audience to “get comfortable … and if you’re not comfortable don’t worry about it too much — I’m about to provide plenty of material that’s going to make most of you very f—–g uncomfortable.” The foul-mouthed, brutally
Megan Valley | Tuesday, February 6, 2018
There’s a lot to say about the overwhelming wave of reboots in Hollywood. Much like most of the think pieces about them, these reboots are repetitive, overdone, cash-grabbing and rarely add enough to the original to make them worth the effort. Being too similar to the original is not the problem most critics have had