comedy

"There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humour and hurt". Robin's Wish takes a walk down this thin line to tell the powerful true story of actor/comedian Robin Williams’ final days. In August 2014,…

These guys give ‘minor league’ a whole new meaning. What should have been an inconsequential intramural baseball game suddenly means everything to the Diamondbacks when their star player is passed over for the MLB draft. Twelve…

New Zealand has a long line of great comedy horrors. Bad Taste, Black Sheep, What We Do In The Shadows. This year's FrightFest sees another good entry to that list. Dead good. Marbles, a hapless stoner, can see ghosts. Tagg, a recently…

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…