Tag: comedy
Gandu (Asshole)
Fearless is the first word that comes to mind when thinking of Gandu (Asshole), the third feature film from director Q (Quashiq Mukherjee) and the very first film from newfound distributor Artsploitation Films. The reason why this word comes to mind is because the film is a perfect distillation of teenage angst, a visceral representation [...]
Gayby
What happens when a straight woman and her gay best friend decide to have a baby together? Well, if you’re unlucky, you get a movie with Madonna and Rupert Everett or those couple of unfunny episodes of Will & Grace. Luckily, Gayby knows better than to follow in those footsteps. After all, it’s 2012. The [...]
Ted
There is something very familiar about Ted, and yet the film is completely unique. Family Guy creator Seth Macfarlane’s directorial debut tells the story of little John Bennett, a lonely kid with no friends who wishes his Teddy Bear would come to life. When John’s wish comes true, Ted is suddenly reminiscent of a dozen [...]
Watch This: Trailers for Lay the Favorite & Girls
The best of this week’s trailer offerings cover all media platforms. Director Stephen Frears’ new film, Lay the Favorite, opens in limited release in Los Angeles today, but the rest of us can catch it on demand or download it off iTunes. And Lena Dunham’s critically acclaimed HBO series, Girls, premieres its season two trailer this week [...]
The Simpsons – Season 15
I was thrilled to get this fifteenth season of The Simpsons by mistake because it would give me an opportunity to discuss the downward trajectory of the series. Previous reviews of The Simpsons that I’ve seen on our site as well as others seem to come from Simpsons loyalists, who defend the series more now [...]
Standup Guys: A Generation of Laughs by John DeBellis
John DeBellis should be famous. Far from a household name, he’s shared the company with Larry David, Richard Lewis, Jerry Seinfeld, Gilbert Gottfried, Bill Maher, Andy Kaufman, Woody Allen, Eddie Murphy, and plenty others whose presence is more instantly recognizable than his own. He even wrote some jokes for Rodney Dangerfield and sketches with Billy [...]
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
For the first time on Blu-ray, everyone’s favorite time-traveling, air-guitaring, most triumphant dudes are back. In time. That’s stupid, forget I said that. I haven’t watched Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure in years. I used to watch it all the time when I was a kid, and I’m sure that this and Back to the [...]
The Watch
Overachieving Costco manager Evan Trotwig (Ben Stiller) decides to start a neighborhood watch after one of his employees is brutally murdered. Recruiting the help of local citizens, Bob (Vince Vaughn), Franklin (Johan Hill), and Jamarcus (Richard Ayoade; The IT Crowd), Evan and his neighborhood watch stumble onto a massive alien conspiracy to take over the [...]
Stephen Sondheim’s Company
Neil Patrick Harris (CBS’s How I Met Your Mother) leads an all-star cast including Stephen Colbert (The Colbert Report), Christina Hendricks (Mad Men), and Jon Cryer (Two and a Half Men). Harris plays Robert, a bachelor surrounded by married friends, and as he turns 35, Robert begins to think about marriage and why he isn’t [...]
Ruby Sparks
It’s been 10 years since Calvin (Paul Dano; Little Miss Sunshine) published his first and only novel. He was in high school when the book came out and achieved overnight success as a writing prodigy. Since then, he’s been struggling to turn out a follow-up, but a dream about the perfect woman sends him into [...]
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