The Roses
Interview: The Roses director Jay Roach and his cast discuss finding the comedy amongst the narrative carnage
Based on Warren Adler’s classic 1981 novel The War of the Roses, Jay Roach’s black, satirical comedy The Roses is the second filmic adaptation, following the film of the same name helmed by Danny DeVito in 1989, which starred Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner as a warring couple determined to destroy the other by any…
Interview: Olivia Colman, Benedict Cumberbatch, Kate McKinnon and Andy Samberg on making their dark comedy The Roses
Based on Warren Adler’s classic 1981 novel The War of the Roses, Jay Roach’s black, satirical comedy The Roses is the second filmic adaptation, following the film of the same name helmed by Danny DeVito in 1989, which starred Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner as a warring couple determined to destroy the other by any…
Film Review: The Roses; Colman and Cumberbatch prove acidic in black-hearted laugher
There’s something rather ironic in Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn describing Warren Adler‘s novel The War of the Roses as “Terrifying, black-humored, black-hearted and bristling,” something that many would liken to her own works. She isn’t wrong, and she would certainly know a thing or two about detailing the deterioration of a once-loving marriage, but…
It’s Colman versus Cumberbatch in biting first trailer for The Roses
The War of the Roses, a 1989 satirical black comedy from Danny DeVito which starred Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner as a warring married couple and the bitter, fatal divorce that followed, never seemed like the most obvious choice to garner a remake. But here we are, over three decades later, with Benedict Cumberbatch and…