The 95th Academy Awards Race: Best Original Song
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Comedy
Chariot (2022)
There is a line in Chariot that I think pretty much sums up the entirety of the film: “Surely, it had to mean something.” When the movie was over, this is what was on my mind. Chariot is a strange comedy blending science fiction and reincarnation with a lot of really fun and unique things strewn about, but […]
Win a Trip to Browntown (2022)
My dear reader, I come before you with a confession. I watched comedy Win a Trip to Browntown! . . . but I never finished it. I couldn’t. Life is short. I’ve got things to do. I stopped at about a buck-five with still 28 minutes left on the running time but there was a […]
7 Days (2022)
7 Days is a lovely romantic comedy that values its subject matter and pulls the blinders off of a tradition that most of us westerners are hard-wired to consider somewhat prehistoric. The subject: Arranged marriages, a phrase that, with a knee-jerk reaction, makes you think of child brides, patriarchal tyranny and mandated unions based on […]
8-Bit Christmas (2021)
Beyond my old standards, I guess I’ve reached the point at which I’ve stopped looking for the next big Christmas classic – that movie that will couch itself among my annual perennials like It’s a Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th Street and Elf and A Christmas Story and even Die Hard. You can’t force […]
Black Friday (2021)
It is hard to dismiss the horror-comedy Black Friday for ambition, however on the level of execution you admit to yourself that it never quite makes it to the winner’s circle. That’s too bad because a Christmas zombie picture featuring horror icons Devon Sawa and Bruce Campbell could and should be a lot better. It […]
Coming 2 America (2021)
I had a knee-jerk reaction going into Coming 2 America and it’s not without prior experience. Comedy sequels have a long-standing history of offering up less-than-nothing, from Ghostbusters II to Men in Black II to Revenge of the Nerds II to Home Alone 2 they’re almost always a hollow cash-grab, a cynical exercise in which […]
Unholy Relics: Appreciating the Goofy Charm of ‘Batman the Movie’ at 55
As a movie and as a TV series “Batman” belongs in a time capsule, not of Batman lore but of a loving tribute to the pop sensation of the swinging 60s. To watch it again after almost 50 years is to be reminded of a time when television – and for that matter pop culture […]
Wild Mountain Thyme (2020)
Wild Mountain Thyme is one of those confectionary baubles that takes up an hour or two of your time, does little to nothing important and then starts exiting your brain twenty minutes before it is over. I’ve just seen it and I find that I have to write this review rather quickly before it completely […]
