‘Gotham’ Becomes A Dark Comedy In Its Second Episode
Fox There are a lot of directions Gotham could have gone in, in its second episode. And it went in the most unexpected one: It’s basically an hour-long dark comedy. The basic plot of the episode is a...
View ArticleLooking Back At ‘The Sopranos’ Most Darkly Comedic Moments
HBO It’s no secret that a big part of The Sopranos’ comes from its dark and often strangely placed sense of humor. While characters brood and life-and-death decisions loom, it remains filled with...
View Article‘The Champ’ Is The Kind Of Darkly Hilarious Sketch We Need More Of On ‘SNL’
Jonah Hill’s latest hosting appearance on SNL isn’t garnering a ton of positive reviews, but there were a few decent bright spots. One of them should definitely be The Champ, a sketch that starts out...
View ArticleMy DVD Shelf: ‘The Promotion’
The Weinstein Company When did John C. Reilly start his wholesale transformation from soulful-but-largely-befuddled character actor into one of the strangest and hardest working comic leads in the...
View ArticleThe M/C Interview: Todd Solondz discusses ‘Life During Wartime’
IFC Films I’m glad Todd Solondz is still making films, and that there is a place for him in the movie landscape. Even if I don’t love every one of his films, I think his voice is a significant one,...
View ArticleThe Creative Minds Behind ‘Mr. Robot’ And ‘Palm Springs’ Are Teaming Up For...
John Lamparski/WireImage via Getty Images In 2015, Sam Esmail came out of seemingly nowhere to reinvent the modern tech-crime-drama-thriller (yes, that’s a thing) with Mr. Robot and has two Emmy...
View ArticleToni Collette And Anna Faris Conspire To Inherit Kathleen Turner’s Fortune In...
Dean Craig has got a thing for death and dark comedy. The screenwriter behind Frank Oz’s Death at a Funeral (2007) — and Neil Labute’s 2010 remake — is stepping behind the camera for The Estate. When...
View Article‘Gotham’ Becomes A Dark Comedy In Its Second Episode
There are a lot of directions Gotham could have gone in, in its second episode. And it went in the most unexpected one: It’s basically an hour-long dark comedy. The basic plot of the episode is a...
View ArticleLooking Back At ‘The Sopranos’ Most Darkly Comedic Moments
It’s no secret that a big part of The Sopranos’ comes from its dark and often strangely placed sense of humor. While characters brood and life-and-death decisions loom, it remains filled with...
View Article‘The Champ’ Is The Kind Of Darkly Hilarious Sketch We Need More Of On ‘SNL’
Jonah Hill’s latest hosting appearance on SNL isn’t garnering a ton of positive reviews, but there were a few decent bright spots. One of them should definitely be The Champ, a sketch that starts out...
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