black comedy
SIGHTSEERS
Sometimes I can be a real glutton for pain (the cinematic kind I should quickly add). As I state at the top of this Blog one of my big no-no’s are horror flicks, and yet hear I am again in a cinema (I’m back in London) to see yet another one from Brit Director Ben…
PARK BENCHES aka BANCS PUBLICS
From its pedigree alone this movie should have been completely wonderful. Directed and penned by award-winning actor/director Bruno Podalydes and with a cast of that was like a veritable who’s who of French Cinema it had all the hallmarks of a sure-fire hit instead of the reality of the total dud it actually turned out…
RID OF ME
When Mitch’s business fails in California he packs up shop and moves back home to Oregon dragging Meris his stick-thin new wife with him. Mitch is desperate to get back into his old life with his very immature former high school mate and their acid mouthed suburban wives regardless of how much a total outsider…
DARK HORSE
In 1998 I was in my hotel room in NY checking out Village Voice when I came across news that some Distributors had disowned Todd Solonz’s new movie ‘Happiness’. I’m not sure if it was the rape, pedophilia, suicide and murder or the bizarre sexual phone caller that had particularly upset them, but once I read…
