In Bruges movie review: Ray and Ken live for a day
Imagine if Laurel and Hardy were Irish hitmen caught in a web of existential angst…
black comedy
Charlie Wilson’s War (review)
It’s one of those “fundamental interconnectedness of all things” things. Or a good-news, bad-news joke. Or an admonition to be careful what you wish for.
Shoot ’Em Up (review)
A gloriously deranged orgy of Bugs Bunny-style action and nonstop gunplay.
Death at a Funeral movie review: die laughing
This is one of the funniest movies I’ve ever seen, and that’s not something I say lightly. It’s practically Shakespearean in its exquisite foolishness and comedic intrigue.
Tribeca ’07: Nobel Son (review)
You’re lucky you’re not a genius. It’s one of those perfect-crime kinda flicks, wrapped up in familial angst as a black-comedy topping. That it’s all rather ridiculous and overly complicates itself in the process is almost beside the point … though not entirely. See, arrogant college prof and working scientist Eli Michaelson (Alan Rickman: Harry … more…
Hot Fuzz movie review: blue steal
It’s just as visually lively, just as crammed full of clever and literate wordplay, just as screamingly hilarious as ‘Shaun of the Dead.’
Idiocracy movie review: stupid is as stupid does
‘Idiocracy’ is even more trenchant, more damning, more — hell, I’ll say it — ‘revolutionary’ than ‘Office Space.’
I’m Alan Partridge: Series 1 (review)
Highly recommended… if you can take humor that is, paradoxically, relentlessly sad.
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (review)
Sacha Baron Cohen is a genius. A crazy genius, maybe, a man who takes dedication to his art to a level courting criminal prosecution and bodily harm, but a genius nevertheless.
The Ice Harvest movie review
John Cusack as a neo-noir antihero? Hell yes: he’s been building to this his whole career. And now he’s done it, yanked the rug out from under us and left us to wonder just how far over he’s gone.
