"Black comedy...also known as 'black humour' or 'dark comedy', is a sub-genre of comedy and satire where topics and events that are usually treated seriously – death, mass murder, sickness, madness, terror, drug abuse, rape, war etc - are treated in a humorous or satirical manner." - Wikipedia Good Stuff! Alice's dark comedy delights await below.
Silly, sweet, farcical and subversive, "Pumpkin" pushes the boundaries of teen melodrama to an absurd pitch, resulting in a film that is bracing, hila... Read more
Jack Nicholson gives a powerful, flamboyant performance in this adaptation of Ken Kesey's novel about a free spirit in a mental ward. Nicholson's rebe... Read more
A black comedy directed by satirist Chris Morris, 'Four Lions' sends up a group of inept jihadists and would-be suicide bombers. Riz Ahmed plays Omar,... Read more
The fabulously dysfunctional Griffins are back. Though sold as 'Season Five', this is in fact the last half of the huge fourth season - too big to fi... Read more
Martin Scorsese's violent true-life gangster epic which follows Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) as he rises through the ranks of the Mafia. Upon turning FBI i... Read more
When The Man With A Plan gives ex-gangster Jimmy The Saint one last job it all goes wrong, leaving him and his partners marked for death and just 48 h... Read more
A hugely dysfunctional family arrives at a secluded hotel for a 60th birthday party for the family patriarch. Suffice it to say, things don't go as ch... Read more
Fanda (Vlastimil Brodsky) is an incurable prankster, even when faced with his own imminent death and a bemused and ungrateful family, Fanda wants to c... Read more
Victor Mancini (Sam Rockwell) shouldn't be a likeable character. He attends Sex Addicts Anonymous, looking for women to bed; he pretends to choke in r... Read more
This wrenching but comic look at independent film-making shows a young film-maker forced to ponder the inevitable question: Can anything be worth goin... Read more