black comedy
Oh Lucy!
Oh Lucy! is a deliciously funny black comedy that takes aim at the stereotypes of two different cultures and in which you simply cannot help fall more than a little in love with the seemingly sad sack of a protagonist. Setsuko (Shinobu Terajima) is a middle-aged unmarried office worker in some anonymous Tokyo Office in…
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
If there was any real justice in the world then Mildred Hayes would find her daughter’s killer, and also Frances McDormand who portrays the angry mother in this movie about her, will be a shoo-in for a nomination for a Best Actress Academy Award when they are announced. This new enthralling black comedy from…
Kept Boy
Chicago based openly gay writer Robert Rodi had a string of very successful hits with his highly enjoyable fluffy gay novels in the 1990’s which included such titles as Fag Hag, and Closet Case. One of them, Kept Boy, has now been made into a full-length feature film and like the sugar-daddy protagonist in the…
The Brand New Testament
God (Benoît Poelvoorde) is not a very nice deity. He is mean to his wife (Yolande Moreau) who he bullies into silence, and he will not allow Ea (Pili Groyne) his 1o-year-old daughter go out of their high rise apartment in Brussels. He spends his whole day dressed in his pajamas in his office on his computer taking…
