Tag: comedy

Now Streaming: KAIJU GIRL CARAMELISE, Don't Fall in Love

The body of a teenage girl expresses her feelings more directly than she can.

MINIONS & MONSTERS Review: Sentimental Love Letter to Cinema Goes Awry in Routine Second Half

Pierre Coffin stars in, co-writes, and directs the latest Minions prequel movie.

DESPERATE LIVING 4K Review: Criterion Gets Classy With John Waters Great Underappreciated Masterpiece

From outright disgrace to global cultural treasure, the recent octogenarian iconoclast filmmaker/raconteur John Waters has lived a dozen lives since he first picked up a camera as a teenager in the '60s. By the time Waters made 1977's Desperate Living,...

THE INVITE Review: Smart, Superbly Engaging Adult Entertainment

Olivia Wilde directed and stars, alongside Seth Rogen, Penelope Cruz, and Edward Norton.

CHARADE Blu-ray Review: Spies, Danger, Laughs and Fashion an Eclectic Criterion Mix

'Comedy' and 'thriller' are not genres that often go together; or if they do, the emphasis is generally on the comedy aspect and not the thrills. If there are thrills, they are usually brushed off as unserious enough to relax...

Tribeca 2026 Review: PONDEROSA, Surreal Brain Teaser Is Bogged Down by Its Own Ambition

Jack Dylan Grazer, Alexis Bledel, and Bill Camp star in Rob Rice's new film.

Tribeca 2026 Review: CAITY, Haunted House Coming of Age Story

Chiara Aurelia, Morgan Spector, and Zach Cherry star in writer/director Lindsay Calleran's beautifully written and acted film, an incredibly well-crafted coming of age/arrested development story.

SCARY MOVIE Review: 'Rebootycall' Return for The Wayans Brothers Slays Everyone But the Real Monsters

The franchise returns to its creators in a shamefully nihilistic and regressive reclamation.

HOLD THE FORT: The HOA 'in' Hell Horror Comedy is Coming to Digital on June 23rd

After moving to the suburbs, a young couple finds themselves trapped in an epic battle between their new HOA and an onslaught of monsters from hell.

POWER BALLAD Review: Paul Rudd Needs a Break

Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas star in John Carney's new music-themed film.

CHUM Review: Shark Horror and Serial Killer Thriller Mash-Up Sinks to the Bottom

Alice Eve leads this shark horror and serial killer thriller mash-up.

Now Streaming: MY TWO CENTS, MURDER MINDFULLY, THE FOUR SEASONS Take Aim at Comedy Around the World

Quick thoughts on 3 new series -- animated Italian, and live-action German and U.S. -- all debuting on Netflix.

TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA Official Trailer & Poster: Little Death is Coming

A queer director making a slasher sequel becomes obsessed with casting the original film's 'final girl,' leading both women into psychological and sexual chaos.

RECKLESS Review: Maniac Magnet Scott Adkins Tears Up London

Scott Adkins just wants his money in director Elliot Montello's high-energy action thriller, also starring Nicole Deon and Vinnie Jones.

SPEED RACER on 4K UHD Is Your New Favorite Home Video Reference Disc

Plus three new 4K releases from the Criterion Collection.

TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA: Canadian Premiere to Happen at Fantasia International Film Festival

The event chosen for the Canadian Premiere of Jane Schoenbrun's Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma has been announced.

IN SEARCH OF NOSFERATU: Patton Oswalt Joins New Doc From Alexandre O. Philippe

An obsessive filmmaker and a sensorially gifted archivist who can "hear" silent films search the world for surviving copies of NOSFERATU to reassemble and reinvent F.W. Murnau's vampire classic from a multiplicity of decayed versions.

$POSITIONS Review: Compelling Tale of Friendship, Obsession, and More

Brandon Daley's wild comic thriller stars Michael Kunicki, Vinny Kress, Trevor Dawkins, and Kaylyn Carter.

THE TASTE OF TEA Interview: Katsuhito Ishii Talks Family Dramas and FUNKY FOREST 2

Katsuhito Ishii discusses domestic dramas, arthouse positioning, and how that 'Funky Forest' sequel is coming along.

THE SHEEP DETECTIVES Review: Hugh Jackman Leads Winning Ensemble in Charming, Family-Oriented Murder-Mystery Comedy

For the big-brained, anthropomorphic sheep in director Kyle Balda (Despicable Me 3, Minions: The Rise of Gru, Minions) and screenwriter Craig Mazin's (The Huntsman: Winter's War, Identity Thief, The Hangover Parts II-III) charmingly realized adaptation of German author Leonie Swann’s 2005...