Kristina Cordero
Here is a true literary event-the long-awaited new novel by Carlos Fuentes, one of the world's great writers. By turns a tragedy and a farce, an acidic black comedy and an indictment of modern politics, The Eagle's Throne is a seriously ... [... more]
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Beetlejuice
 Amazon.com Essential Video: Before making Batman, director Tim Burton and star Michael Keaton teamed up for this popular black comedy about a young couple (Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin) whose premature death leads them to a series of wildly bizarre [... more]
CDN$14.99
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Chronicle of a Blood Merchant
A bestseller in China, recently short-listed for the Man Asian Literary Prize, and a winner of France's Prix Courrier International, Brothers is an epic and wildly unhinged black comedy of modern Chinese society running amok. Here is China as ... [... more]
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Kerim Yasar
Winner of the Japan Mystery Writers Award, Naoko is a black comedy of hidden minds and lives. Navigating the interstices between the real and the unreal with perfect plot twists, this page-turner is also a critique of gender relations by a male ... [... more]
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Keigo Higashino
Winner of the Japan Mystery Writers Award, Naoko is a black comedy of hidden minds and lives. Navigating the interstices between the real and the unreal with perfect plot twists, this page-turner is also a critique of gender relations by a male ... [... more]
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Junk Mail
Dark comedy shows that foreign isn't boring: This is a funny movie, but in a subdued way -- the pathetic attempts of the main character, Roy, to escape boredom and attract a girl; the scuzzyness of the bad guy, Georg; life at the Oslo post office, etc. [... more]
CDN$9.95
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Home Fries (Widescreen/Full Screen)
From Amazon.com: A man is frightened to death by a menacing military helicopter, piloted by two young Texan men who just happen to be the dead man's stepsons, Dorian and Angus (Luke Wilson and Jake Busey). To complicate matters, the dead man had had an [... more]
CDN$7.99
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Jawbreaker (Widescreen/Full Screen)
From Amazon.com: Rose McGowan vamps it up mercilessly as the "Satan in heels," a teenage-bitch queen whose birthday prank gone terminally wrong leaves her best friend dead, choked to death on a jawbreaker the size of a fist. Rebecca Gayheart, [... more]
CDN$11.95
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The War of the Roses
From Amazon.com: Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, and Danny DeVito reunited for a third time to fabulous effect in this dark, disturbing comedy of martial trauma and revenge, which couldn't be more different from their sunnier outings in Romancing the [... more]
CDN$11.98
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Life Without Dick (Widescreen/Full Screen)
From Amazon.com: Sarah Jessica Parker and Harry Connick Jr. star in this oddly sunny attempt at black comedy. (And yes, it stoops to Dick jokes.) Parker plays Colleen, a good girl with a bad boyfriend named Dick. This problem is solved when she kills him [... more]
CDN$14.95
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The Cable Guy (Widescreen/Full Screen)
Chronique amazon.fr: Si vous êtes amateur de l'humour de Jim Carrey, considérez Disjoncté comme une bouteille de vin fort et amer. Si vous supportez sa noirceur et son extrémisme, vous garderez longtemps l'arrière-go& [... more]
CDN$16.95
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A Little Bit Of Soul
From Amazon.com: Geoffrey Rush is wry, sly, and deviously funny in A Little Bit of Soul, writer-director Peter Duncan's follow-up to his offbeat black comedy Children of the Revolution. Rush plays the smooth-talking Australian finance minister (who, as [... more]
CDN$29.98
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