Comedy Reviews

Comedy

The Guilt Trip

The Guilt Trip

Seth Rogen plays Andy, a 30-ish inventor who is trying to peddle an environmentally friendly cleaner, but obviously is better at mixing chemicals then selling his product to big-box...

Linda
The Raspberry Reich

The Raspberry Reich

I can’t in good conscience rate The Raspberry Reich any higher than this, because it’s a terrible, terrible movie. Then again, it’s not really a movie, it’s a porno....

Eric
Last Night (1998)

Last Night (1998)

It is literally the last night, the world is ending, and humankind has known this for at least several months. Why it’s ending is not really clear (it is...

Linda
Joyful Noise

Joyful Noise

I’m sure highbrow critics will give this film withering reviews simply because it is such a blatant crowd-pleaser. With song, dance, corn pone one-liners, a bit of romance, a...

Linda
A Room for Romeo Brass

A Room for Romeo Brass

Shane Meadows’ A Room for Romeo Brass has a lot of the same ingredients of a good Leigh movie: broken families, crowded townhomes, mothers screaming at their kids, wayward...

Linda
Ghost Town

Ghost Town

Bertram Pincus D.D.S. (Gervais), a self-absorbed dentist who really is not a people person, does not understand daily acts of kindness towards fellow humans. He stuffs cotton into the...

Linda
Date Night

Date Night

Director Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian) knows this, and gleefully hands the wheel of this silly but often hilarious mistaken-identity caper over to the...

Vickie
Dark Shadows (2012)

Dark Shadows (2012)

Dark Shadows is the latest installment in the Johnny Depp-Tim Burton bromance, and if either or both of those names cause you to swoon, then you really don’t need...

Kim
Vamps (2012)

Vamps (2012)

It’s always weird when a movie full of A-listers (or once A-listers) is given a half-hearted theatrical release and then winds up on DVD. I’m always left scratching my...

Linda
Silver Linings Playbook

Silver Linings Playbook

Silver Linings Playbook is one of the odd gems that defies the formula and goes for a warts-and-all approach to storytelling that feels refreshingly like real life.  It’s nice...

Jennifer
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)

Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)

I feel like I will be sent to Movie Hell for saying this, but I don’t really like Breakfast at Tiffany’s. I didn’t really care for it the first...

Linda
Bernie

Bernie

Bernie has one of those plots that is so crazy, that it must be true. Bernie Tiede (Jack Black) was one of the most popular men in Carthage, Texas....

Linda