comedy

WARNING - SPOILERS AHEAD A dark comedy with an intellectual heart, Killing Poe is a wonderfully novel film with surprises at every corner. Five students all enrolled in the same lacklustre Edgar Allen Poe class work together to…

We are currently living in strange times. Which is as good a reason as any to sit back and enjoy a film that can take us away from it all, at least for a couple of hours. With this in mind what better opportunity is there for a good…

It is safe to say that co-writer/director/star Tyler Cornack's strained, forcefully outlandish, and sluggishly nasty mystery and suspense comedy Butt Boy needs its sorry gimmicky ass kicked to the curb. This 100-minute prolonged gag about…

As with other yearly movie seasons, summertime 2019 was no different in terms of serving up interminable entertainment that actively tests our patience, intelligence, and appreciation for cockeyed comedies. Indeed, comedian Jeremy Saville…

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to here it, does it make a sound? So goes the philosophical question that first appeared around the 1700s. Jump forward a few hundred years and we may find ourselves pondering…

Jean Luc Godard once said “Film is truth, 24 frames per second.” Now, I don’t know what that means, but I do know it's wrong. Weird Science cannot be truth, because it's made of film, and truth is made of emotions or something. I also…

Writer-director Riley Stearns ("Faults") constructs the offbeat comedy The Arts of Self-Defense with such a biting surge of wryness that the message is quite clear in the satirization of masculinity and all its related toxicity. Stearns…

Jean Luc Godard once said “Film is truth, 24 frames per second.” Now, I don’t know what that means, but I do know it's wrong. Mrs. Doubtfire cannot be truth, because it's made of film, and truth is made of emotions or something. I also…

Tate Taylor, director of The Help and The Girl on the Train, puts on his horror hat for the thrilling and relentlessly entertaining Ma. Octavia Spencer plays Sue Ann, a twisted and lonely woman who befriends a group of teenagers in the…

I told her it was one of those wildlife things by Richard Attenborough. She didn't even notice for the first 30 minutes.