Dark comedy

Strangers Things’ Maya Hawke to star in Netflix’s dark comedy Strangers

Posted 6 years ago

Deadline reports that STRANGER THINGS star Maya Hawke and RIVERDALE's Camila Mendes have both been cast as the co-leads in Netflix's upcoming dark comedy STRANGERS, which is being described as: a subverted Hitchock-ian dark comedy featuring the scariest protagonists of all: teenage girls. It...

Review: Cold Pursuit

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: A snowplow driver seeks revenge against those involved in his son’s death. Unfortunately for the grief-stricken father, he finds himself in a sea of bad guys and rivaling drug dealers that could lead to his own demise. REVIEW: If...

Netflix orders Will Ferrell and Liz Feldman’s dark comedy series Dead To Me

Posted 8 years ago

With his upcoming films ZEROVILLE and HOMES AND WATSON now in post-production, it's been announced that Will Ferrell will partner with NBC's ONE BIG HAPPY creator Liz Feldman for a new dark comedy series on Netflix entitled DEAD TO ME....

Netflix releases new clips for animated dark comedy Bojack Horseman

Posted 9 years ago

BOJACK HORSEMAN is probably one of my favorite animated – no shows, period – airing right now. It’s hilarious, such as its parody of flashbacks with scenes set it in an over-the-top 2007, the running gag of the Hollywoo sign,...

Animator Don Hertzfeldt to direct a sequel to his short World of Tomorrow

Posted 9 years ago

Don Hertzfeldt is a bit of a hero to my alumni (UCSB), so I of course have some fondness for him for that reason alone. But I also really love his work. It’s beautiful, elegant, with a lot of heart...

Patton Oswalt playing an imaginary Pegasus in SyFy’s Happy!

Posted 9 years ago

It seems that Patton Oswalt will be replacing Bobby Moynihan as the voice of the eponymous Happy the Horse in the SyFy dark comedy HAPPY! It's based on a graphic novel by Grant Morrison where an imaginary cartoon-looking Pegasus (Happy)...

Poster for Brigsby Bear starring Mark Hamill and Kyle Mooney released!

Posted 9 years ago

I'm really looking forward to the dark comedy BRIGSBY BEAR. I just love the story about, according to the official press release from Sony Pictures Classics, "Brigsby Bear Adventures…a children's TV show produced for an audience of one: James (Kyle...

The Belko Experiment releases even more awesome & bloody claymation trailers

Posted 9 years ago

THE BELKO EXPERIMENT is a kind of weird, unique mash-up of BATTLE ROYALE and OFFICE SPACE, with tongue seemingly firm in cheek. So it makes sense that its marketing would also be a weird, tongue-in-cheek, mash-up. Admittedly, the studio had...

Javier Botet is a nasty hidden houseguest in this Two Pigeons clip

Posted 9 years ago

Javier Botet is becoming one of hottest, most well-known names in horror recently. Might I dare say he is the new Doug Jones. Can there be a "new Doug Jones"? Huh. Well, if there can be, then Javier Botet is...

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