Posts Tagged ‘Comedy’
Episode 133 – Cocaine Bear
For this podcast episode, we review the violent ensemble comedy, Cocaine Bear, directed by Elizabeth Banks. We also tell you which tv shows we’d like to see given a prestige Blu-ray release by the Criterion Collection. For the streaming homework, we review Takashi Miike‘s 2017…
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Episode 103 – The Bubble
For this week’s podcast episode, we review Judd Apatow‘s star-studded COVID-era comedy, The Bubble. We also talk about overlooked mid-budget movies that were made in the last ten years. Lastly, for our streaming homework, we discuss Ken Russell‘s 1971 controversial cult masterpiece, The Devils, starring…
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Episode 83 – Werewolves Within
For this episode, we check out Josh Ruben‘s horror-comedy whodunit, Werewolves Within, based on the popular computer game. We also list a few choices for the scariest non-horror movies. As this week’s streaming homework, we discuss Troma‘s 1990 release, the cult-comedy, Frankenhooker. Download the episode here.
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An Analysis – Hollywood’s “It” Comedies
There has been a trend of each year having an “it” comedy movie: the comedy that everyone ends up talking about, even at the year’s end. Now, there can be more than one great comedy a year, but there is usually only one that both…
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Film Review – Goon
Goon (2011) is a comedy straight down the middle, doing nothing new, but it does keep a good sense of humor. It takes on a well-used idea of the man who starts out as a loser and then gets his shot to be something more.…
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An Analysis – The Chief Offenses Against Good Comedy
Year in and year out, whenever I am revising my worst-of list, I usually notice that the majority of the filth is made up of someone’s poor definition of comedy. Though I certainly have a standard for what I consider to be a good movie,…
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SIFF Film Review – Submarine
Recently premiering locally at the Seattle International Film Festival, and now playing in select cities, Submarine stars Craig Roberts as Oliver Tate, an awkward and self-conscious teenager whose internal monologue we hear throughout the film. While accurately described as a coming of age story, it…
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Schlock Shelf – Tucker and Dale vs. Evil
Tucker and Dale vs. Evil is one of the best films I’ve seen in a really long time. Combine Earnest Goes to Camp with Friday the 13th and you’ll have this masterpiece. Tucker is the more macho of two hillbilly best friends, and he’s a…
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