Black Comedy

Four Mothers – Review from Glasgow Film Festival

There’s a stereotype about Irish mammies. Domineering. Nobody is good enough for their boys. And, oh their boys! They stay…

In a world where everything seems perfectly curated and “just so”, how easy is it to be yourself? In fact,…

Road trip movies are so very rarely about the destination. Rather, they are about the emotional journey the character(s) will…

The mid-life crisis has become something of a cliché. Both in real life and in films and television. Men, typically,…

There are plenty of movies about bright child stars struggling to adapt with obscurity or notoriety in childhood. They usually…

The revenge movie. It tends to follow a pretty bog-standard formula. Something bad happens to a person and – having…

Comedy is not only subjective, it’s often a product of time. Humour ages quickly, even something that seems as harmless…

How do you make widespread poverty, fear, labour camps and shootings seem funny? You create a comedy of terrors, of course. Armando…