Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
Bridesmaids
If you’re into weddings, bridal showers, bitch slaps, and/or women shitting in the middle of urban thoroughfares while wearing designer gowns, you’ll fit snugly into the demographical canyon that Bridesmaids aims to please. And, chances are, you will be pleased. There’s some scuttlebutt being slung around that the film’s no more than a few skits [...]
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Thursday, May 26th, 2011
The Other Guys
I’m almost a year late to the party, but my friend’s mother recently got The Other Guys on Netflix—and, well, I’m glad we had nothing better to do that night. After slagging on Will Ferrell recently, and on “mainstream comedy” for awhile now, I felt obligated to endorse this film. It opens on an overt [...]
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Thursday, May 19th, 2011
Everything Must Go
Everything Must Go—including the script. Heck, it’s a bargain: second-hand wisdom. The lede of one review asks, “Does Will Ferrell have a Bill Murray future?” To which I reply, “Probably not.” Murray has always been cool jazz—subtle, sarcastic, recessive. Ferrell isn’t hot jazz, exactly; but he’s a hot mess—completely, commercially, often hilariously, unsubtle. His satire [...]
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Thursday, May 12th, 2011
Win Win
When was it decided that wrestling was a sign of sensitivity? It was implied that the troubled teen of The Kids Are All Right might be sending his brah a love letter every time he held him in a headlock. Now, in Win Win, in defiance of the sum of modern hyperconsciousness—and codes that have [...]
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Thursday, March 31st, 2011
Paul
In the olden days, comedy troupes like the Marx Brothers didn’t have the luxury of sticking with their favorite directors; they got whoever the studio threw at them. But the writing-and-acting team of Nick Frost and Simon Pegg have had a kickass collaboration with Edgar Wright that’s resulted in two exhilarating, gut-bursting features: the [...]