Dark comedy

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...

Go Team Venture! Season 7 of Venture Brothers series now in production!

Posted 9 years ago

No joke, VENTURE BROTHERS might be my favorite show airing today. Period. I love both its reverence and irreverence to superhero and adventure stories, with it skewing the tropes and cliches of the genre, while also upholding them with its own internal mythology...

New bloody Red Band clip from James Gunn’s The Belko Experiment

Posted 9 years ago

It's no secret I can't wait for THE BELKO EXPERIMENT. I love contained thrillers (like CUBE, EXAM, COHERENCE), so that – alongside the dark humor, blood gore, and the fact it's written by James Gunn – makes this movie right up...

New Belko Experiment trailer shows off bloody new footage

Posted 9 years ago

I'm so down for the James Gunn-penned THE BELKO EXPERIMENT. It's described by some as "THE OFFICE meets BATTLE ROYALE", which are two things I love. And, to be fair, I love pickles and jam, which doesn't mean you should...

Sebastian Stan to play Jeff Gilroy in I, Tonya opposite Margot Robbie

Posted 9 years ago

The whole thing with figure skater Tonya Harding getting someone to attack rival Nancy Kerrigan at the 1994 Winter Olympics is sad and tragic, but that hasn't stopped Hollywood from making an edgy dark comedy out of the event. And, honestly,...

F*ck me gently with a chainsaw, new Heathers TV show on the way

Posted 10 years ago

With STANGER THINGS killing it, there seems to be an even more insatiable lust for 80's nostagia (and to a lesser extent Winona Ryder nostalgia…remember when she was a thing?), which means a pilot for a new HEATHERS series has been ordered by...

Ink & Pixel: Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events

Posted 10 years ago

Steve Ink & Pixel is a source of pride and joy for me as a writer and as such, I'm always striving to take this column further for those who read and enjoy it. In an effort to widen the...

Bryan Cranston will terrorize Naomi Watts in the thriller Holland, Michigan

Posted 12 years ago

In a recent Reddit Ask Me Anything session to help promote the documentary THE ACT OF KILLING, producer Errol Morris was asked about his other work besides documentaries, and Morris revealed he will be directing an awesome sounding film with...