In Dr.Seuss’ The Grinch what makes the Grinch redeemable and savable isn’t his two size small heart which is capable of growing bigger, or his sunny mean disposition and pranks punctuated with moments of tenderness and compassion. No, it’s his …
Category: comedy
“Can You Ever Forgive Me?”: The Perfect Non-Romantic Twosome Create Their Greatest Con
In Can You Ever Forgive Me? Melissa McCarthy and Richard E. Grant create the perfect criminal twosome. She creates literary forgeries and he inspires her and peddles them when the feds get wise to her. When the gaze is on …
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“The Other Side of the Wind”: Orson Welles Own Serious Parody of Himself and Cinema
Orson Welles last film The Other Side of the Wind (on Netflix) reconstituted from footage and assembled by a master team of film editors, directors and Welles scholars, establishes some lofty goals, mainly how to have both a serious film …
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“Nobody’s Fool”: Tiffany Haddish Rescues Tyler Perry From His Ordinary Foolishness
Tiffany Haddish in a NY Times interview has described her career as a “…delicious roasted chicken.” Chicken tastes better when it is free range and the same can be said of Haddish’s comic style. In Nobody’s Fool, a picture written …
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“Johnny English Strikes Again” Getting Past Bond to 00 Ought Nott
Johnny English is funnier than it has any right to because Atkinson is seriously stupid yet classy in the best possible way.
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“The Old Man and the Gun”: Robert Redford Gets His Perfect Goodbye
The Old Man and the Gun even has a non-ironic Oscar in memoriam montage composited out of every remotely applicable Redford Western and prison movie.
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“The Sisters Brothers”: Anti-Family on the High Plains
With the gang together the movie wanders into amiable chat and a ton of metaphoric inaction, focusing on rumination over ruination to the film’s detriment.
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