Exhibiting Forgiveness (2024)
Opening Birmingham Alabama’s 26th Annual Sidewalk Film Festival [...]
Comedy
Micro Budget (2024)
Micro Budget is a rambunctious comedy with the same absurdist flow as something like “Parks and Rec” or “The Office” or about 90% of what is currently on “Saturday Night Live” if you shave off the persistent political stuff. It’s a very funny movie that feels like a modern TV sitcom, which is both a […]
Lady Parts (2024)
As Nancy Boyd’s Lady Parts was getting under way, I felt more than a bit uncomfortable. I’m a 52 year-old man and this is a comedy that begins with the information that the film’s protagonist is experiencing severe vaginal pain. And, because this is a comedy, there is a boatload of jokes that come at […]
Deadpool and Wolverine (2024)
It’s a team-up that only one wants to be a team-up. Can they ever get along?!
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F (2024)
The third Beverly Hills Cop sequel arrives on Netflix this week just in time for the July 4th holiday and the fact that it is skipping theaters and going right for a streaming service is probably for the best. Like Murphy’s previous sequel Coming 2 America, the filmmakers obviously knew that it wasn’t something that […]
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024)
I saw Ghostbusters: Afterlife for the first time yesterday morning because I knew that I was going to see Frozen Empire today. That film broke my heart. It was laughless, listless, needless and retreated to an endless and frustrating series of callbacks to the first movie and recycled the plot without doing anything new with […]
Sometimes I Think About Dying (2023)
It might take an act of Congress just to get Fran to speak. She is painfully shy, socially awkward and keeps to herself. Her day is spent hiding behind her cubicle at work and at night eating cottage cheese before slipping into bed in room drenched in blazing lights from outside that make it look […]
Bottoms (2023)
The first thing to note about the new comedy Bottoms is that it is not playing in the real world. Rather Writer/Director Emma Seligman and her screenwriting partner Rachel Scott have collaborated to tell a story that exists less in the world of The Breakfast Club and more in the surreal world of something like […]
Barbie (2023)
For me, the single funniest moment in Barbie happens in the first three minutes – a hilarious parody of the “Dawn of Man” sequence from 2001: A Space Odyssey featuring little girls whose choice of dolls have only ever been baby dolls. Into their midst comes a 50-foot monolith in the shape of a babelicious […]
