comedy

Look. You’re either going to watch or not watch Cocaine Bear simply because of the title. Much like Snakes on a Plane or Sharknado before it, what it says on the tin is exactly what you’ll get: A black bear goes on a coke-fueled rampage. What the title doesn’t tell you is this 95-minute late-night […]

Here’s the thing about the evolving Magic Mike series: It’s not about the stripping. Sure, the dance moves are fantastic, but at the heart of it, it’s about Mike Lane (Channing Tatum) trying to find his way amid shady club owners (Magic Mike), impending adulthood (Magic Mike XXL), and, finally, being someone’s everything while becoming […]

Calling itself “an unabashed love letter to Sam Raimi’s EVIL DEAD series,” Fabián Forte’s Legions (original Spanish title: Legiones) is content to take a completely different approach altogether to the fight against the undead: playing it absolutely straight. That’s not to say there’s no physical comedy or gore in the film; on the contrary, there […]

Much like any “stranger in a strange land” film, Kitchen Brigade (original French title: La Brigade) mines its comedy and tension from two disparate factions having to learn about each other. There’s the initial standoff, followed by a gradual armistice which leads to understanding and cooperation. And, of course, who can forget the happy-happy endings […]

Now, this is a vampire story I can dig – a workingman’s vampire movie that leans into its action and comedy elements with gusto and sass. Day Shift revels in making vampire hunting a blue-collar occupation, the way that we’d look at pool cleaners, plumbers, and other similar tradesmen. I’m sure this kind of conceit […]

You have to give comedian Jo Koy props for his hustle and how he has seized the opportunity to parlay his tumultuous life into smashing success. Decades before his self-financed 2017 Netflix special made him a worldwide phenomenon at the age of 46 (he’s 51 now), Koy brought the wackiness of growing up in a […]