Tag: Black Comedy (Page 4)
2000sChicago (2002)
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Rob Marshall's 2002 jazz-age murder musical. Won six Academy Awards including Best Picture.
1930sTop Hat (1935)
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The Cheek to Cheek number is canonical. Their fifth collaboration and their best.
2000sSugar & Spice (2001)
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Francine McDougall's 2001 American crime comedy about a high school cheerleading squad that robs banks to support their leader's pregnancy. Sugar & Spice is Francine McDougall's 2001 American crime comedy depicting a high school cheerleading squad whose lead member becomes…
1990sBut I’m a Cheerleader (1999)
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Natasha Lyonne plays Megan Bloomfield. Babbit's directorial debut applies bright pastel-color art-direction to substantially serious subject matter, with the conversion-therapy camp setting rendered as deliberately artificial space that signals the screenplay's satirical positioning throughout.
2010sAmerican Made (2017)
May 18, 2026
The screenplay was written by Gary Spinelli. The work is one of the strongest Cruise performances of his late career and the rare American biopic that engages substantially with Cold War foreign policy material.
1990sGet Shorty (1995)
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1995 Barry Sonnenfeld crime comedy adapting Elmore Leonard. Travolta as Miami loan shark who becomes a Hollywood producer.
1980sLook Who’s Talking (1989)
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1989 Amy Heckerling comedy with John Travolta and Kirstie Alley. Bruce Willis voices a sarcastic infant narrator.
1990sLook Who’s Talking Too (1990)
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Diminishing returns on the talking-baby concept. Travolta and Alley return as James and Mollie, now married with a toddler Mikey and a baby Julie.
2010sKingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)
May 18, 2026
2017 Matthew Vaughn sequel adding Statesman, the American counterpart agency. Julianne Moore as drug cartel villain.
2010sKingsman: The Secret Service (2014)
May 18, 2026
2014 Matthew Vaughn spy action with Colin Firth recruiting Taron Egerton into a British independent intelligence agency. Kingsman: The Secret Service is Matthew Vaughn's 2014 British spy action film adapting Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons's 2012 comic series The Secret…
1980sMonty Python’s The Meaning of Life (1983)
May 18, 2026
1983 Terry Jones comedy sketch film. The Pythons tackle life's stages from birth to death.