Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Perfect Host, The (2010)
- Dir. Nick Tomnay
Feat. David Hyde Pierce, Clayne Crawford, Nathaniel Parker… - Cat–and–mouse thriller with a bank robber crashing a dinner party, unfortunately he gets more than he bargained for from the urbane host.…
Super (2010)- Dir. James Gunn
Feat. Rainn Wilson, Elliot Page, Liv Tyler… - Violent comedy with Rainn Wilson as a schlubb turned violent avenger after his wife runs off with a drug dealer. Uneven, perhaps intentionally, with…
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)- Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Val Kilmer… - Werner Herzog's spin on the 1992 bad–boy classic delights in seeing a pasty, middle–aged Nicolas Cage cracking up (in all three meanings…
Dead Like Me: Life After Death (2009)- Dir. Stephen Herek
Feat. Ellen Muth, Callum Blue, Sarah Wynter - Feature–length movie spin off of the TV series focusing on the undead missionary 'Reapers' and their reactions to their…
Dogtooth (Kynodontas) (2009)
- Dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
Feat. Aggeliki Papoulia, Mary Tsoni, Hristos Passalis… - An astringent, blackly comic tale of a modern Greek family whose adult children have been imprisoned in their home since birth. Something of a…
Down Terrace (2009)- Dir. Ben Wheatley
Feat. Robin Hill, Robert Hill - Uncomfortable kitchen sink drama by way of an organised crime thriller, centred on a family of Brighton low–lifes seeking revenge on a snitch…
Drag Me To Hell (2009)- Dir. Sam Raimi
Feat. Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Lorna Raver - Sam Raimi returns to his horror roots in this twisted tale of a loan officer (Lohman) who has three days to rid herself of a deadly curse placed upon…
Getting On (TV Series) (2009-2010)- Dir. Peter Capaldi
Feat. Jo Brand, Joanna Scanlan, Peter Capaldi - A bleak comedy series set in the depths of the underfunded NHS. This warts–and–all depiction of palliative care was written by the actors…
Life During Wartime (2009)- Dir. Todd Solondz
Feat. Shirley Henderson, Michael Kenneth Williams, Allison Janney… - Dir. Todd Solondz recasts his controversial 1998 indie hit, HAPPINESS, revisiting the dysfunctional characters and their future lives in this blackly…
Micmacs (2009)- Dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Feat. Dany Boon, Andre Dussollier, Jean-Pierre Marielle… - The dir. of AMELIE and CITY OF LOST CHILDREN stays true to form(ula) with his visual chutzpah lavished upon another idealised scenario that this time…
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