Tags: comedy

The Scary Movie franchise has grown fresher and more interesting since the departure of the Wayans Brothers but it continues to bumble along providing lowbrow physical humor and implied off color jokes. David Zucker has been providing more or less consistent broad slapstick humor since 1980’s Airplane!, and he and Leslie Nielsen don’t seem [Read More …]

I did finally go see the film Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan because it has a lot of buzz and it has made a lot of money. But I went into the film knowing that I wasn’t going to like it and I didn’t. This is not intended [Read More …]

For Your Consideration is the latest Christopher Guest ensemble film this time skewering Hollywood and the fast approaching award season. By now the actors and the sense of humor are familiar after Waiting For Guffman, Best In Show, and A Mighty Wind but Guest and his cast of superb character actors are able to bring [Read More …]

Clerks II is the ambitious and enjoyable follow-up to the 1994 hit indie film Clerks. It follows the continued adventures of Smith’s unlikely heroes Dante Hicks, Brian O’Halloran, and Randal Graves, Jeff Anderson. Clerks II has all of the profanity and general perversion of the first film but it adds color film, a progressive story, [Read More …]