Subgenre Sampler
Black Comedy: 497 Films to Buy & Rent
Malice Aforethought (TV Mini-series) (2005)
- Dir. David Blair
Feat. Ben Miller, Barbara Flynn, Megan Dods
- Ironically fashioned PBS tele–mystery has a frustrated doctor (Miller) driven to dose his overbearing wife (Flynn) with poisons, but having to…
Pretty Persuasion (2005)
- Dir. Marcos Siega
Feat. Evan Rachel Wood, Ron Livingston, James Woods…
- A malicious student (Evan Rachel Wood) connives with her cowed classmates to lay a false claim of sexual harrassment against a drama teacher…
Six Feet Under - Season 5 (TV Series) (2005)
- Feat. Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall, Frances Conroy…
- Fifth and final season of the acclaimed HBO drama set around a funeral home.
12 episodes over 5 discs: A Coat of White Primer, Dancing for Me,…
Thick of It, The (TV Series) (2005)
- Dir. Armando Iannucci
Feat. Chris Langham, Peter Capaldi, Chris Addison…
- Coruscating political satire examines the bumbling drones who work inside government as they blunder their days away under the watchful eye of the…
Weather Man, The (2005)
- Dir. Gore Verbinski
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Michael Caine, Hope Davis
- A socially hapless, self–loathing TV weatherman in Chicago (Cage) navigates the colliding mid–life storms of family, career and adulthood…
Weeds (TV Series) (2005-2012)
- Feat. Mary-Louise Parker, Elizabeth Perkins, Justin Kirk…
- Tinkering with suburban values and the illusion they help maintain, this wry and caustic comedy of affluence trafficks the drug trade of a widowed…
Bubba Ho-Tep (2004)
- Dir. Don Coscarelli
Feat. Bruce Campbell, Ossie Davis
- Strangely brilliant horror–satire with an outlandish plot where Elvis Presley (living but aging and impotent) fights the evil of a reincarnated…
Dead Fish (2004)
- Dir. Charley Stadler
Feat. Gary Oldman, Robert Carlyle, Jimi Mistry…
- The stock British gangster flick gets yet another working over: Gary Oldman plays a hitman who crosses paths with various motley individuals,…
Duplex (2004)
- Dir. Danny De Vito
Feat. Drew Barrymore, Ben Stiller, Harvey Fierstein…
- Typically wicked premise from dir. De Vito, with Stiller and Barrymore as a duplex–owning young couple who are lumbered with an eccentric,…
Employee of the Month (2004)
- Dir. Mitch Rouse
Feat. Christina Applegate, Matt Dillon, Steve Zahn
- Matt Dillon is dumped by his girlfriend (Applegate) and fired from his job in the same day. Thank goodness Steve Zhan is around to pull him out of…