Tag: comedy
Calgary Underground 2025 Review: EEPHUS, Where Baseball Contains Multitudes
Eephus, Carson Lund’s wonderful ode to small stakes baseball and gruff Americana, needs its odd title explained: The Eephus pitch is a throw that is so unnaturally slow that it confuses the batter. It makes him swing too early, or...
THE HEDONIST Interview: Nick Funess, Izzi Rojas, Jordan Somani on Flat Affect, Parents, and Stylized Editing
[Beware: light spoilers ahead.] In my review of The Hedonist, I wrote about the often hilarious flat affect line deliveries, its stylized editing, and the frankly beautiful use of Robocop references. So when I got the chance to sit down...
SOME LIKE IT HOT Blu-ray Review: Criterion Re-issues the Perfect Comedy
Some Like it Hot is one of those films that I can't remember not having seen; and yet, every time I watch it, it still feels fresh and funny. There is so much I learned from it for the first...
CHUNGKING EXPRESS 4K Review: Loneliness, Yearning, Loss, Romance, Joy, Bliss
Brigitte Lin, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, and Faye Wong star in Wong Kar Wai's masterpiece.
THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME Official Trailer: Benicio del Toro And Mia Threapleton Lead an All-Star Cast in New Wes Anderson Film
Tis the season for another dose of the distinctiveness that is Wes Anderson. Variety got the jump on the official trailer for Anderson's new film. The Phoenician Scheme. Benicio del Toro and Mia Threapleton take the lead on this one, and...
Rotterdam 2025 Review: THREE DAYS OF FISH Proves You Can Never Go Home Again
Peter Hoogendoorn debuted very strongly almost ten years ago with Tussen 10 en 12 (Between 10 and 12), a rigidly structured movie set in a limited time-space. In it, a family one by one get told bad news by two...
FREAKY TALES Review: Four Freaky-ish Tales From The East Bay
A mysterious green fog leads to a wild week in the East Bay in Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck’s Freaky Tales. Narrated by legendary Oakland rapper, Too $hort, Freaky Tales is an interconnected anthology of bizarre, violent goings-on occurring over...
A MINECRAFT MOVIE Review: Blocked and Reported
Jack Black, Jason Momoa, Danielle Brooks, and Jennifer Coolidge star in Warner Bros.' long-awaited adaptation of the videogame phenomenon.
THE UGLY STEPSISTER: U.S. Poster Premiere, Dipping It's Toe in Horror
IFC Films and Shudder have sent out a cool poster for their upcoming release of The Ugly Stepsister. Check it out, down below. At the top of the poster is the headling, 'If the shoe doesn't fit'. That with...
THE UGLY STEPSISTER Trailer: She's Going Crazy
It has been less than a week since they announced the release date and IFC Films and Shudder have wasted no time following up that announcement with the trailer premiere for Emilie Blichfeldt's fantasy satire horror The Ugly Stepsister. ...
SXSW 2025 Review: FUCKTOYS, A Filth-filled Odyssey Though A Punk Rock Wonderland
A sometime sex worker longs for love in director/writer/star Annapurna Sriram’s chaotic debut feature film, Fucktoys. We meet AP (Sriram) mid-tarot reading, sitting in the middle of a swamp, listening to the wisdom of a psychic played by iconic rapper,...
SXSW 2025 Review: FRIENDSHIP, It's Hard Out Here For Dudes
Cringe comedy master Tim Robinson makes his feature lead debut alongside an always dependable Paul Rudd in Andrew DeYoung’s hilarious bromantic-comedy, Friendship. Craig Betterman (Robinson) is a man in a rut. He lives his life in an unending triangle between...
SXSW 2025 Review: MERMAID, A Florida Meth-Head Finds Love in this Absurd Comedy
Doug’s life sucks. He’s broke, strung out on meth, his ex-wife hates him, he owes money to some very dangerous people, and he doesn’t really see a way out. He’s at the end of his rope when he stumbles across...
SPINAL TAP II: THE END CONTINUES: First Teaser For Sequel to Metal Mockumentary
Variety shared a teaser for Spinal Tap II: The End Continues has arrived. Bleecker Street acquired the U.S. rights for the sequel and have set a September 12th theatrical date (hmmm... TIFF world premiere anyone?). Bleecker Street also have the...
ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL Review: Silence Cannot Be Endured
It's hard to imagine what any of us would do, if we were driving along a quite road and came across a dead body, let alone the body of a member of our family. For Shula (Susan Chardy), on her...
Berlinale 2025 Review: MICKEY 17, Bong Joon Ho Takes Us to the Stars in Angry and Amusing Sci-fi Comedy
With his latest film, Bong Joon Ho reaches for the stars but what his characters discover in the far reaches of space is just another version of the messed-up world they left behind, a world Bong has laid bare for...
Sundance 2025 Review: OH, HI!, Anti-Rom-Com Promises Much, Delivers Less
The title of writer-director Sophie Brooks’s feature-length debut, Oh, Hi!, an anti-rom-com, appears almost immediately in an exchange between longtime best friends, Iris (Molly Gordon) and Max (Geraldine Viswanathan). Usually saved for a moment combining surprise and levity, here...
GUNS UP: Vertical Acquires U.S. And UK/Ireland Rights to Action Comedy Led by Kevin James And Christina Ricci
When a job goes horribly wrong, an ex-cop and family man who moonlights as a mob henchman has one night to get his family out of the city.
Sundance 2025 Review: THE UGLY STEPSISTER, Grim, Grotesque, Gory Take on the Brothers Grimm's Folktale
There’s a singularly cringe-inducing moment in Norwegian filmmaker Emilie Blichfeldt’s brilliantly conceived and vividly realized fairy/folk tale, The Ugly Stepsister (orig. Den stygge stesøsteren), where the doomed-to-fail title character, Elvira (Lea Myren), the subserviently obedient daughter of a ruthless, amoral social...
LOVE HURTS Review: Great Action Can't Save a Middling Story
For those not aware of Ke Huy Quan's comeback story, here's a refresher: a child star of two of the biggest films of the 1980s (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and The Goonies), he found his career stalled...
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