Actress-filmmaker Radha Blank’s semi-autobiographical midlife-crisis tale The Forty-Year-Old Version evokes memories of Woody Allen + Paul Mazursky.
As an RKO and MGM star, sassy blonde Ann Sothern had an unconventional professional trajectory: A and B movies in a decades-long film career that had no less than 2 peaks.
The Women remake with Meg Ryan. In the old Margalo Gilmore (on Broadway, 1936), Norma Shearer (1939), and June Allyson (1956) role, 1990s Hollywood Sweetheart Meg Ryan plays a materially…
Trouble Is My Business is a tongue-in-cheek film noir homage that evokes memories of classic Hollywood crime dramas of the 1940s and 1950s.
Here’s a brief look – to be expanded – at Turner Classic Movies’ June 2017 European Vacation Movie Series this evening, June 23. Tonight’s destination of choice is Italy. Starring…
Bread and Butter movie with Bobby Moynihan and Christine Weatherup. Late-life virginity is detrimental to your emotional health. Bread and Butter movie review: Late-life virginity & other social anxieties in…
In Stereo with Micah Hauptman and Beau Garrett: Wit and sarcasm. ‘In Stereo’: Witty & sarcastic romantic comedy In Stereo is a particular kind of romantic comedy – the kind full…
Garth & Wayne’s World with Dana Carvey and Mike Myers. Wayne’s World movie: Mike Myers & Dana Carvey + director Penelope Spheeris to attend Academy screening Wayne’s World, starring Saturday…
Featuring a fantastic supporting cast (Mia Farrow, Donna Murphy and others), Todd Solondz’s deadpan tragicomedy Dark Horse depicts a jerk’s life.
Maps to the Stars for Robert Pattinson / David Cronenberg? Above, Pattinson in Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis (Paul Giamatti in background) Robert Pattinson hates Twilight, according to those who have taken seriously…
Carnage review mix is less than enthusiastic: Jodie Foster, John C. Reilly, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz in Roman Polanski’s post-arrest comeback. Based on Yasmine Reza’s play God of Carnage, Roman…
Cary Grant and Jean Arthur in The Talk of the Town (top); Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn in Woman of the Year (bottom). Actor Cary Grant collaborated with director George…
Is Brüno Gay? Or anti-gay? Sacha Baron Cohen is seen above as the über-effeminate title character. Brook Barnes in the New York Times: “So it goes for Brüno, a movie…
Gay wedding: Queens with Hugo Silva and Raúl Jiménez. In Manuel Gómez Pereira’s fluffy 2005 Spanish comedy Queens, a group of gay men and their mothers get ready for Spain’s…
George Stevens. George Stevens’ The More the Merrier movie screening: Oscar-Nominated romantic comedy stars Jean Arthur & Joel McCrea + Charles Coburn As part of its George Stevens Lecture on…
Pineapple Express with James Franco, Danny McBride, and Seth Rogen. I saw the newest Apatovian effort, Pineapple Express, at a Just for Laughs Film Festival press screening in Montreal. Directed…
Starring Patrick Dempsey and Michelle Monaghan, Made of Honor is a fluffy cross between My Best Friend’s Wedding + Will & Grace.
Starring gay MGM contract actor William Haines, the pre-Code comedy Western Way Out West features gay innuendoes just about everywhere you look.
An homage to unconventional families mixed with social commentary, Charles Chaplin’s 1921 movie The Kid remains just as touching 9 decades after its release.
Made during the Production Code era, the amusing 1936 Mae West comedy Go West Young Man features a few surprisingly risqué situations.
A capable ensemble of below-the-title names is put to good use in the Damon Runyon-esque B comedy Sing and Like It. ZaSu Pitts stars.
One man’s disastrous romantic heartbreak is great comedy fodder in Nicholas Stoller”s Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Jason Segel and Kristen Bell star.
Ice Cube stars in Are We Done Yet?, a godawful remake of the 1948 Cary Grant-Myrna Loy hit comedy Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House.
Meet the Robinsons’ eccentric characters are key a reason for the enjoyment of Disney’s (Pixar-influenced) futuristic family adventure comedy.
Directed and written by Chris Rock, who also stars, I Think I Love My Wife is an utter failure as both social commentary and comedy. Kerry Washington costars.
Starring the German Mary Pickford, Ernst Lubitsch’s The Doll movie is a satirical fantasy featuring inventive art direction and jabs at the Catholic Church.
Robert Pattinson in Maps to the Stars. ‘Maps to the Star’s trailer and clips: Julianne Moore goes ballistic after losing a role, Robert Pattinson learns that Mia Wasikowska’s parents are…
Jean Dujardin and Gilles Lellouche: ‘The Players’ posters and 9/11 joke removed. World Trade Center 9/11 joke removed from Jean Dujardin sex comedy ‘The Players’ “Jean Dujardin, already Oscared, can…
Viridiana with Silvia Pinal. Viridiana, Luis Buñuel’s provocative 1961 Palme d’Or-winning classic proving that life is a bitch and then you play cards, will run at New York City’s Film…
Contemplative Woody Allen comedy Stardust Memories is one of the most profound films ever. Charlotte Rampling + Marie-Christine Barrault costar.
Seen (sort of) together for the first and last time, Mae West and W.C. Fields follow their own routines in the entertaining comedy Western My Little Chickadee.
Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg’s 2007 action comedy Hot Fuzz is a riotously funny and unusually creative spoof of Hollywood’s buddy movies.
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