Tag: comedy
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...
Rotterdam 2025 Review: FABULA, Chaos In The Peatlands
The Dutch film Fabula, the opening film of IFFR 2025, employs all possible means to tell its story. The film, much like its protagonist, the 55-year-old petty criminal Jos (played by renowned Dutch actor Fedja van Huêt), does not adhere to...
Sundance 2025 Review: IF I HAD LEGS I'D KICK YOU, Momma Gonna Knock You Out
Rose Byrne stars in Mary Bronstein's film, co-starring Conan O'Brien and A$AP Rocky.
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GALAXY QUEST 4K Review: Shining in Mighty UHD
Calling everyone in sci-fi movie fandom! Paramount has recently released the intergalactic 1999 comedy, Galaxy Quest, on 4K for the film’s 25th anniversary. Directed by Dean Parisot (Bill & Ted Face the Music, RED 2) this film is still every...
THE HOLIDAY CLUB Interview: Alexandra Swarens Talks Seasonal Sapphic Storytelling, Respecting Romance, and Getting Her Hands Dirty
The queen of seasonal lesbian love discusses romantic cinema, screen chemistry, and hilarious, accidental euphemisms.
GET AWAY Interview: Steffen Haars, Maisie Ayres, Sebastian Croft on Their Horror Comedy
In the horror comedy Get Away, an Anglo-Irish family (Nick Frost, Aisling Bea, Maisie Ayres and Sebastian Croft) go on vacation to Svälta, a place that sounds ideal for horror: a small Swedish island where in the 19th century a...
Friday One Sheet: UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE
Brutalism is back, baby! Behold the mighty Winnipeg mortar arches, and thin veneer of snow that together form one of many visual motifs in Matthew Rankin's superbly dry dramedy Universal Language. A large part of the film's delights come from...
NIGHTBITCH Review: Amy Adams Elevates An Otherwise Underwritten Script
Inarguably one of the most talented, hard-working, and almost as importantly, most popular performers of her generation, Amy Adams, has yet to win an Academy Award. As her six (and counting) Oscar nods attest, however, it's not for lack of...
GET AWAY Review: Nick Frost's Homage to Folk Horror Gets Super Fun And Stabby
Nick Frost and Aisling Bea star in Steffen Haars' folk horror comedy
