comedy

I had a double-feature of Game of Death and Divos! in this specific order… and boy, I’m happy I watched Divos! second. This was exactly the antidote I needed for the ugliness of the preceding movie. Divos! is a punchy charmer and rejoices in petty awkwardness, manically (or maniacally?) driven by its hero and narrator Ricky. […]

As we grow older, we find more and more that consumer products – especially music and film – aren’t marketed or made for us. Your chances of finding youth-oriented comedies in theaters are much greater than finding something made for those of us who’ve already been through the awkward transition between the teenage years and […]

I’m gonna be straight up here: I like watching Nancy Meyers’ What Women Want from time to time. A pre-meltdown Mel Gibson and an absolutely delightful Helen Hunt aided and abetted by a supporting cast which includes the likes of Ashley Johnson, Alan Alda, Judy Greer, and Bette Midler? What couldn’t you like about it? […]

There’s a memorable scene which kicks off the 2000 audience favorite The Way of the Gun. In it, a woman screams a stream of obscenities at two shifty men who’ve just set off her boyfriend’s car alarm by playing cards on the trunk. One of the men shouts back one of film’s most incredulously misogynistic […]

When thinking about Steven Soderbergh’s Logan Lucky, I keep flashing back to something Stu Redman said in the 1994 TV adaptation of Stephen King’s “The Stand”: “Redneck don’t mean stupid.” If Soderbergh’s trilogy of Ocean’s films were finely-tuned jazz-funk, consider Logan Lucky to be its scruffier skiffle-band cousin. Sporting a misspelled “DANGERUS” tattoo and a […]

When it comes to films like Ripped, I get a little conflicted, as I recognize the efforts and good intentions of the filmmakers. However, if the film fails to convey either its drama or humor due to clichéd writing and overly lackadaisical performances, it’s hard to find a way to recommend such a movie. On […]