Comedy

REVIEW: “Coup de Chance” (2024) |

Woody Allen’s 50th film, “Coup de Chance” made a pretty good impression after premiering at last year’s Venice International Film Festival and then in France a short time later. Since then it has been finding its way to screens including here in the States courtesy of MPI Media Group. It’s Allen’s first French-language feature. And…

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Ship of fools: ‘Triangle of Sadness’

Listening to a Russian oligarch and an American luxury yacht captain drunkenly exchange clichés about socialism versus capitalism over the ship’s PA system strikes me as farce without tragedy — and the joke is that it’s Woody Harrelson as the captain whose aggressive about socialism and the Russian who sounds like an OAN reporter. Good […]

Ship of fools: ‘Triangle of Sadness’

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Triangle of Sadness

Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness is a hilariously tragic social commentary like I’ve never seen before. In three acts, it centers on a young couple of British models, Carl (Harris Dickinson) and Yaya (Charlbi Dean). The opening scene shows us male models in a documentary setting, being interviewed and asked among many questions, how they […]

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) Director – Milos Forman (Man On the Moon) Cast – Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Brad Douriff, Danny DeVito, Will Sampson, Christopher Lloyd Plot – Troublemaker and criminal R.P McMurphy (Nicholson) is transported to a mental facility run by Nurse Ratched (Fletcher) where he is to be evaluated […]

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Lazy Susan

An irreverent and comedic alt-history of the Lazy Susan (that spinning thing on the table at Chinese restaurants), and how one lazy lazy woman changed the restaurant industry forever. Susan’s family restaurant is in trouble: a competing restaurant, Soup Station, moves in next door and, powered by its ingenious innovation (self-serve soup!) business is slow. How can their traditional Chinese restaurant compete? From this humble beginning, the legend of Susan is born.

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Let’s Do It

In an attempt to spice up their relationship, Mark persuades his girlfriend Allie to help him throw an orgy. The night of debauchery quickly turns rancid with the arrival of an unwanted guest, threatening to unravel the relationships of everyone involved.

WINNER: Best Ensemble Cast – Atlanta Comedy Film Festival

WINNER: Best Supporting Actor – Mike Glazer – Atlanta Comedy Film Festival

Let’s Do It
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Women&Wine

Women&Wine is a humorous film about the fear of losing a friend. Turid is attending her close friend’s fiftieth anniversary, but during the party, she comes to realize she is no longer amongst her closest friends. Thus Turid starts a game to make her mark, and the party turns out to involve much more than singing and wine.

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SIX SHOOTER

Martin McDonagh’s Oscar-winning black comedy about a train journey where an older man (Brendan Gleeson), whose wife has died that morning, encounters a strange and possibly psychotic young oddball (Rúaidhrí Conroy). As the journey progresses, things take several turns for the worse for the bereaved widower… Subscribe to Film4 for more interviews, clips and trailers: https://bit.ly/2up0y8g #Film4 #ShortFilm #Comedy

SIX SHOOTER
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Gemide

” Kadın yoktur. ” Jacques Lacan Gemide, aşksız boşluğun işlevsel kullanımı üzerine bir aşk filmidir; anlatıdaki efsanevi “Bir memleket gibidir gemi” repliği öyle sağlam bir omurgadır ki, denebilirse filmin eşsizliği yönetmenin yeteneğini bile yer yer aşmaktadır. Ne gemide ne memlekette aşk yoktur aslında, ve ne memlekette ne gemide kadın vardır… Bu yüzden aslında bu karakterleri […]

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