Comedy

Marvelous and the Black Hole (2022)

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Marvelous and the Black Hole (2022)

Marvelous and the Black Hole is the most harmless movie that I’ve seen in a while.  I was in a good mood watching it, and maybe that helped.  Were I in a sour mood, it’s cuteness might have been galling.  Given the right mood, it is one of those little movies that you just want to […]

| April 22, 2022
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Chariot (2022)

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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 […]

| April 15, 2022
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Win a Trip to Browntown (2022)

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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 […]

| March 25, 2022
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7 Days (2022)

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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 […]

| March 25, 2022
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8-Bit Christmas (2021)

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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 […]

| November 24, 2021
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Black Friday (2021)

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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 […]

| November 19, 2021
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Coming 2 America (2021)

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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 […]

| March 9, 2021
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Unholy Relics: Appreciating the Goofy Charm of ‘Batman the Movie’ at 55

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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 […]

| February 22, 2021 | 0 Comments
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