It’s Chicago, 1929. The Dodgers are still in Brooklyn and Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks are still married. Two almost unemployed musicians, Jerry (Jack Lemmon) and Joe (Tony Curtis), find work and money hard to come by; it doesn’t help that they bet what little money they have on race dogs that don’t come through.
→Tags: Billy WIlder, Comedy, Marilyn Monroe, Edward Copeland on Film
ReviewAhh, the Spain of my dreams: passionate artists, tragic poets, beautiful countryside homes, and couples fighting in the streets. I can’t tell you whether or not this is an accurate depiction, but it’s nevertheless where we find ourselves as Vicky Cristina Barcelona opens, emphasizing a couple of young, smiling, wide-eyed American girls hopping off a plane and into a cab.
→Tags: Comedy, Romance, Woody Allen
EssayAt The House Next Door, I take a look at the much anticipated comedy of the summer, Pineapple Express:
→“Pineapple Express": a weather condition in which a jet stream of warm air from the region around Hawaii travels all the way up to the likes of Canada, bringing winds and rains.
Tags: Comedy, Judd Apatow, David Gordon Green, Pineapple Express, The House Next Door
ReviewWhenever I visit my dad’s house, I peruse his DVD library; he adds a movie or two fairly often, so I see what’s new to the collection that I can borrow. Hmm, here’s Elizabethtown. Heard some awful things during the festivals, but some okay stuff when it was released theatrically.
→Tags: Romantic, Comedy, Cameron Crowe
ReviewConfusions of an Unmarried Couple is, in essence, one big long argument. Dan (Brett M. Butler), months after catching his fiance Lisa (Naomi M. Johnson) cheating on him, has decided he wants to set things straight.
→Tags: Butler Brothers, Uber-indie, Comedy, Canadian
EssayI’ve been looking forward to tomorrow for many weeks now, and it’s not difficult to guess why.
Yes, I’ve caught Superbad Fever. The only thing I’m afraid of is whether or not the teen comedy will live up to my expectations. As I mentioned and insinuated before, this year is lacking in comedies, and is almost completely void of significant ones.
→Tags: Superbad, Apatow, Seth Rogen, Comedy, Classic, Zoolander
Essay→There aren’t a lot of personal comedies being made anymore. And I didn’t really notice that. I love those movies. But I guess that era of movies like Manhattan and Annie Hall and things like that has past. Because I’ve been trying to think of what are the personal comedies of the last 10-15 years? And there’s not too many of them. I loved Welcome To The Dollhouse.
Tags: Scripts, Filmmaking, Personal, Apatow, Comedy, Punch-Drunk Love
ReviewIn my Season 2 review, I praised The Office for having natural performances, surprising and excellent writing, and a sweet, lovely, charming air to itself. I feel cheated—none of those characteristics can be found in Season 3. Now it feels like I’m watching the show, crossing my fingers in hope of something original. I didn’t see that coming.
→Tags: TV, The Office, Comedy
EssayIn a new and weekly series, I will put film-related people on trial for varying Crimes Against Cinema. On trial this week: The New Millennium Softies.
What happened? Was it Y2K? Did the scare force these people to re-evaluate their lives, their purposes?
→Tags: On Trial, Softies, Comedy, Sandler, Jim Carrey, Ben Stiller, Farrelly, There's Something About Mary
EssayI always thought that it was weird when kids in elementary school would hand out Valentines to everyone in the class, even to the ones of the same sex—not in the homophobic sense, but merely in a confused sense. In high school, I made a point of having very few male friends; I wasn’t a “buddy” guy.
→Tags: Blog-a-thon, Comedy, Love, Valentine, Romance
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