Tag: comedy
Baka & Test: Summon the Beasts (OVA Collection)
In my previous review of Baka & Test: Season Two, I raised a number of complaints about that particular season, but I had failed to mention therein two complaints I had about the season that did not make it in to the review as they then seemed petty, but are now relevant. There were notable [...]
The Sessions
Far too often when the words “Based on a True Story” are bandied about, disaster is soon to follow. Those movies seem to be based on people, but there’s no sense of the real person or even a fully dimensional character. Luckily, The Sessions, with the help of John Hawkes and Helen Hunt, work together [...]
Small Apartments Screening in Chicago
Hey Everyone, The new Jonas Akerlund’s (Spun) new film will be having a screening on Thursday Feburary 7th at Chicago’s Landmark Century Center @ 7:30 P.M. Starring Matt Lucas (Little Britain), Billy Crystal (When Harry Met Sally), Juno Temple (The Dark Knight Rises), James Marsden (X-Men: The Last Stand), Peter Stormare (Fargo), Amanda Plummer (Pulp Fiction) [...]
Baka & Test: Summon the Beasts (Season Two)
When FUNimation released Baka & Test: Season One in 2011, the second season of the series was only just then airing in Japan. Given the breakneck pace at which I plowed through the first season and the high praise I heaped upon those 13 episodes and FUNimation’s Blu-ray/DVD release of them, you can imagine how [...]
Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns: Season 7
Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns: Season 7 highlights the triumphs and travails of a family journeying through life’s adventures. From addressing sensitive health issues, such as HIV transmission from a past lover to the shock of a divorced mother becoming a “Cougar”, thereby dating half her age, there’s an incredible amount of activity in each [...]
Life’s Too Short: The Complete First Season
Ricky Gervais has expressed a desire to have a certain expected style, citing Woody Allen as a successful example of how this can be obtained. Of course, this is a recipe open for immense backlash, with a dwindling fanbase inevitably on the horizon. But the niche market is a place Gervais belongs, and within that [...]
Enlightened – Season 1
Laura Dern attempts to join a long list of strong female characters in TV comedy with Enlightened. The series, which Dern co-created with executive producer Mike White, is about Amy, an executive in a big company who has a nervous breakdown after an affair with her boss (Charles Eston). Returning to work months later, having [...]
Lapland Odyssey
Artsploitation Films impressed the hell out of me, with their first release of the Bengali film, Gandu, so I’ve been very eager to see what other types of films they’d be willing to explore with. Marked as their second title in their collection, Dome Karukosi’s Lapland Odyssey (Napapiirin Sankarit) is another welcome addition to the label and a [...]
Is This a Zombie?
Is This a Zombie? offers a unique interpretation of what it would be like to live as a zombie. As a zombie, Ayumu Aikawa, has to figure out how to live a semi-normal existence, all the while slowly building a harem-like household and trying to figure out why he died in the first place. There are a [...]
Sleepwalk with Me
When Ira Glass is your producer you aren’t making a blockbuster. That’s alright. Mike Birbiglia knows his story is better told over time in local bars, drinking Yuengling between Passion Pit tracks. The less this sentence makes sense the more you’ll like Sleepwalk with Me. Mike writes, directs and stars in his own true story [...]
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