Tag: comedy
Cannes 2025 Review: A USEFUL GHOST, The Importance of Remembering
Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke's feature debut tells a very queer ghost story within a story about the importance of remembering.
NOBODY 2 Official Trailer: Bob Odenkirk, Timo Tjahjanto And The Best Vacation Ever? It Might be.
Nobody 2, the sequel to the unexpected smash action hit is coming cinemas on August 15th. The official trailer has just arrived, check it out down below. Just as unexpected was the announcement that Indonesian director Timo Tjahjanto would...
Raven Banner Cannes Bound With DEATHGASM II: GOREMAGEDDON
There appears to be an extraordinary number of friends and acquaintances attending Marche du Film and Cannes this year, more than the usual gaggle of regulars we watch on our socials with green envy. Part of that usual gaggle...
FIGHT OR FLIGHT Review: Buckle Up for a Fun and Bloody Ride
Josh Hartnett and friends turn the friendly skies red with a terrifically entertaining action/comedy.
CLOWN IN A CORNFIELD Review: Caught Between Gateway Horror and Hardcore Gorefest
Eli Craig ('Tucker and Dale vs Evil')'s horror thriller stars Katie Douglas, Carson MacCormac, Aaron Abrams,Will Sasso and Kevin Durand.
FRIENDSHIP Review: May Cause Squirming and/or Laughing
Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd star in writer/director Andrew DeYoung's comedy.
HONEY, DON'T! Trailer: A Coen Brother's Noir-Comedy
The Coen Brothers working separately have not exactly set the box office on fire, even if the films (The Tragedy of Macbeth, Drive Away Dolls) are well enough regarded. This may be about to change from Ethan Coen's Cannes bowing, star...
ANOTHER SIMPLE FAVOR Review: Bigger and Prettier Isn't Always Better and Funnier
Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively star in Paul Feig's comic sequel.
SNEAKERS Tiptoes Onto 4K UHD, and Remains an All-Time Great Comic Caper
Plus more new 4K UHD releases!
CLOWN IN A CORNFIELD: Frendo Hitting The Road For a Two-Week Cross Country Semi-Truck Tour
The push to get bums in seats for the theatrical release of Clown in a Cornfield carries on. Really, the marketing behind this film is impressive. Sitting at an also impressive 93% on Rotten Tomatoes (our own Josh part...
Hong Kong Cinema Classics in 4K Coming From Shout! Studios
Shout! Studios today introduces a new entertainment label, Hong Kong Cinema Classics™, "spotlighting a treasure trove of Hong Kong's most captivating and cinematic masterpieces on digital entertainment platforms in 4K and definitive-edition physical releases (UHD™ and Blu-ray™) for collectors' home...
Friday One Sheet: THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME
Something that comes up in almost every entry of this column, lately, is the omission of the credit block in movie posters. As if to single-handedly compensate for this, the BLT Communications design for the latest Wes Anderson film, The Phoenician...
Calgary Underground 2025 Review: TWO WOMEN, A Modern Remake of Quebec Sex Comedy
A tiny camera move during a scene at a Montreal Canadiens hockey game demonstrates what good direction can do: the storytelling happens via the camera itself, revealing the gag (which I will not) and surprising the audience with something possible...
Calgary Underground 2025 Review: EEPHUS, Where Baseball Contains Multitudes
Eephus, Carson Lund’s wonderful ode to small stakes baseball and gruff Americana, needs its odd title explained: The Eephus pitch is a throw that is so unnaturally slow that it confuses the batter. It makes him swing too early, or...
THE HEDONIST Interview: Nick Funess, Izzi Rojas, Jordan Somani on Flat Affect, Parents, and Stylized Editing
[Beware: light spoilers ahead.] In my review of The Hedonist, I wrote about the often hilarious flat affect line deliveries, its stylized editing, and the frankly beautiful use of Robocop references. So when I got the chance to sit down...
SOME LIKE IT HOT Blu-ray Review: Criterion Re-issues the Perfect Comedy
Some Like it Hot is one of those films that I can't remember not having seen; and yet, every time I watch it, it still feels fresh and funny. There is so much I learned from it for the first...
CHUNGKING EXPRESS 4K Review: Loneliness, Yearning, Loss, Romance, Joy, Bliss
Brigitte Lin, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, and Faye Wong star in Wong Kar Wai's masterpiece.
THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME Official Trailer: Benicio del Toro And Mia Threapleton Lead an All-Star Cast in New Wes Anderson Film
Tis the season for another dose of the distinctiveness that is Wes Anderson. Variety got the jump on the official trailer for Anderson's new film. The Phoenician Scheme. Benicio del Toro and Mia Threapleton take the lead on this one, and...
Rotterdam 2025 Review: THREE DAYS OF FISH Proves You Can Never Go Home Again
Peter Hoogendoorn debuted very strongly almost ten years ago with Tussen 10 en 12 (Between 10 and 12), a rigidly structured movie set in a limited time-space. In it, a family one by one get told bad news by two...
FREAKY TALES Review: Four Freaky-ish Tales From The East Bay
A mysterious green fog leads to a wild week in the East Bay in Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck’s Freaky Tales. Narrated by legendary Oakland rapper, Too $hort, Freaky Tales is an interconnected anthology of bizarre, violent goings-on occurring over...
