Comedy

Review: Brad’s Status (TIFF)

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: By all accounts, Brad (Ben Stiller) is a successful guy. He lives a comfortably middle class existence with a wife (Jenna Fischer) who loves him, and a smart son (Austin Abrams) with a bright future ahead of him. But,...

Joel McHale joins Melissa McCarthy in The Happytime Murders

Posted 9 years ago

I'm aware that not everyone is down with Melissa McCarthy's particular brand of laughs, but a dark comedy set in the underbelly of Los Angeles where humans and puppets coexist is just too good for me to pass up. Directed...

Beverly Hills Cop 4 is on patrol to cast a big name as Axel’s partner

Posted 9 years ago

For my money, Martin Brest's BEVERLY HILLS COP was one of the best action comedies to come out of the 1980s. Eddie Murphy was in his prime, Judge Reinhold and John Ashton made for the perfect bumbling officer duo and...

Giant insects go metal in new trailer for horror-comedy Dead Ant

Posted 9 years ago

Well, the film DEAD ANT seems to merge things I love, such as metal, gore, and giant insects (and even sneaks in some TWIN PEAKS love with the appearance of Michael Horse). It is a bit of a disappoint that...

Why It Works: Swingers

Posted 9 years ago

Why It Works is an ongoing column which breaks down some of the most acclaimed films in history and explores what makes them so iconic, groundbreaking, and memorable. ****SPOILERS AHEAD**** With AMERICAN MADE hitting theaters later this month, I thought...

Review: Downsizing (TIFF)

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: A suburban man (Matt Damon) voluntarily undergoes miniaturization in order to join a small-person’s community where his middle class savings will make him wealthy. REVIEW: Alexander Payne’s DOWNSIZING is nothing if not ambitious – perhaps too much so. It’s...

Jim Carrey to star in Showtime series Kidding from Michel Gondry

Posted 9 years ago

Today, SHOWTIME has unveiled that the rubber-faced actor, Jim Carrey, has joined the cast of a newly-announced half-hour comedy series entitled KIDDING from director Michel Gondry. As his first series regular role in well over two decades, Carrey will serve as...

Martin Starr and Ron Perlman co-star in comedy The Escape of Prisoner 614

Posted 9 years ago

So apparently Martin Starr (SILICON VALLEY) and Ron Perlman (HELLBOY) will be co-starring together in a new period comedy in the vein of the Coen Brothers (according to the proceeding plot synopsis) about race relations in the '60s called THE...

John Landis advised his son against remaking An American Werewolf in London

Posted 9 years ago

Over three decades have passed since John Landis first unleashed AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON on the world, and the film is still held in high esteem, especially due to Rick Baker's masterful werewolf transformation sequences which continue to be...

Review: Battle of the Sexes (TIFF)

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: The true story of Tennis champ Billie Jean King (Emma Stone) who, in 1973, accepted a challenge by Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell) to play an exhibition game that he marketed as an epic battle of the sexes. REVIEW: Despite...

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