Recently, visionary filmmaker and general artistic genius David Lynch made the bold claim to his belief that cable television is the new arthouse. This statement rings particularly notable when one considers that Lynch himself played a pivotal role in the development of television from merely being the realm of mindless comedies and predictable procedurals, and…
Category: dark comedy
The Cable Guy (1996)
Since I started this blog years ago, I have reviewed nearly every film I’ve seen in that period. Its brought me so much joy and helped me discover new and exciting films and filmmakers and have my thoughts on them articulated. However, it has also allowed me the opportunity to write about films that I…
Six Shooter (2004)
Six Shooter, the first film by genius playwright and filmmaker Martin McDonagh, has absolutely everything you could want from a film – philosophical conversations, the conflict between characters, family tragedy, police shootouts and an exploding cow. It is also only 27 minutes long, which proves that a film doesn’t need to be very long to…
Naked (1993)
I first saw Mike Leigh’s Naked in August 2012. I originally wrote my review after watching it for the third time in 2014. It was a film that would grow to be my favorite piece of cinema ever made. To this day, I have always looked at my early reviews with a mixture of nostalgic…
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Well, where to start? This is the review I have been dreading to have to write. That isn’t to imply that Pulp Fiction is a bad film. In fact, I consider Pulp Fiction to be in my pantheon of near-perfect films. I don’t need to explain how important Quentin Tarantino is to me as a…
Satan’s Brew (1976)
I have watched many, many films over the course of my life, from nearly every conceivable nation, decade and across several genres. To this day, I have not seen a film as polarizing as Satan’s Brew (German: Satansbraten). I was left baffled, puzzled at what this film was. I had only one emotion after seeing…
Dogtooth (2009)
It takes quite a bit for a film to scare me. Once you have seen (or rather, survived) some of the most brutal horror movies ever made, very little can be done in the way of outright terrifying you. It is then a truly bizarre feeling when you are left horrified by a film that…
Fargo (1996)
“Aw jeez, this is a great film, yah” is exactly how I’d expect the characters in Fargo to react to the film centred on them. I have seen this film a few times over the years, and I revisited it recently as a response to my adoration of the TV show that bears the same…
Trainspotting (1996)
It took me way too long to see this film. Trainspotting is naturally the kind of film I’d love – a social dark comedy about the degradation of society, with quirky characters, brutal violence and an Iggy Pop-infused soundtrack. I don’t have an answer as to why I waited until only now to sit and…
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005)
I am fascinated by various film movements, and one movement I have been very interested in exploring is the Romanian New Wave, which started around the early 2000s and developed quite a reputation for being pitch black comedies defined for their audacity and social messages. Romania is a country that went through quite a lot…
