Posts Tagged ‘Tiffany Haddish’
Film Review – Easter Sunday
Easter Sunday (2022) works better for what it stands for as opposed to the story it tells. Filipinos have long been entwined in all facets of American culture, including the arts. Yet when it comes to representation, they have mostly been ignored. Like many actors of…
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Episode 105 – Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
For this week’s podcast, we review Marvel‘s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Keith reviews the new Nicholas Cage meta-comedy, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. We also talk about the history of the American rating system and debate the merits of the…
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Film Review – Here Today
Here Today (2021) attempts to be a sweet and heartfelt look at a friendship in the midst of a serious personal struggle. There are moments where it gets close to succeeding, but then stumbles over cheap melodrama. This is one of those movies where we can…
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Film Review – Bad Trip
Bad Trip (2021) falls in the same line of hidden camera/prank movies as the Jackass series, Bad Grandpa (2013), and the work of Sacha Baron Cohen. But where Ali G sought to expose the hypocrisy of the political world and Borat revealed the ugliness of American society as a…
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Film Review – The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part
The LEGO Movie (2014) came as a kind of revelation. Here was a film that was – in essence – a feature length commercial for the LEGO building blocks toys. Yet under the guidance of the writing/directing team of Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, we…
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Film Review – Night School
Night School (2018) is the kind of comedy that just keeps getting in its own way. The set up alone can make for some funny situations. A guy – trying to make a better life for himself and his fiancé – decides to go to…
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Film Review – Keanu
If you’ve ever had your heart broken (and/or a proclivity for gnarly bong rips), you’ll likely see a lot of yourself in the forlorn Rell (Jordan Peele), professional sad sack in Keanu. Devastated following a recent break up, Rell compels his cousin and best bud…
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