Tag Archives: comedy

Documentary Review — Remembering “SCTV: The Greatest Show You’ve Never Heard Of”

Posted on November 2, 2026 by Roger Moore

It wasn’t “live TV” comedy. The cast was, to a one, contemporaries of the Americans and Canadians in the first cast of “Saturday Night Live.” But “SCTV” came on years later, and was sporadically on the air years after the … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Terry Gilliam at His Most Medieval — “Jabberwocky” (1977)

Posted on October 23, 2026 by Roger Moore

Terry Gilliam’s first, best destiny was always to be the greatest production designer/art director of his day. He’s directed a handful of great films — “Time Bandits,” “Brazil,” “The Fisher King,” “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” and “Twelve Monkeys.” … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review — “Norm: The Tale of Norm Macdonald”

Posted on October 16, 2026 by Roger Moore

He was a very smart guy who played dumb to the bitter end. He repeatedly claimed he’d dropped out of high school (he graduated at 14) and that he’d never been to college (he went to two). Norm Macdonald would … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: The Canadian Who Cooked Up “SNL” — “Lorne”

Posted on October 11, 2026 by Roger Moore

Lorne Michaels, the inscrutable guru who changed Saturday nights in America by creating “Saturday Night Live” and then presiding over it for almost all of its 51 years, is the “star” and central figure of mystery of “Lorne.” The documentary … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: In Muldoon’s Curtain Call he’s an Ex-Boxer with “Dirty Hands”

Posted on September 22, 2026 by Roger Moore

Patrick Muldoon was a “Starship Troopers” alumnus who never quite got over the B-movie hump as an actor. He passed away last April at 57. “Dirty Hands” was his final film, a representative work for an actor who made a … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Edwards and Sellers crash “The Party” in Hollywood (1968)

Posted on July 4, 2026 by Roger Moore

A wicked thought crossed my mind midway through re-watching the Blake Edwards/Peter Sellers farce “The Party,” one of three times the great British funnyman donned brownface to play Indian characters. What would have happened had Sellers, a comic legend and … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? “Ladies First” remakes “I’m Not an Easy Man” in Sexist Shades of British

Posted on June 8, 2026 by Roger Moore

One of the most popular Netflix films from France, “I’m Not an Easy Man” earns a British-accented remake with “Ladies First,” a gender-reversing Sacha Baron Cohen/Rosamund Pike rom-com. Seems to me I traded cars on the review traffic from the … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Car Salesman “Breadwinner” turns Mister Mom Wannabe

Posted on May 31, 2026 by Roger Moore

Comic Nate Bargatze’s Hollywood studio comedy debut, “The Breadwinner,” is another “Mister Mom/Daddy Daycare” knockoff, a “Dad’s no good at kiddie caregiving” conceit that’s so moldy and out of date that the less said about this stiff the better. But … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: The Insufferable Ages into Adorable — “Marty: Life Is Short”

Posted on May 13, 2026 by Roger Moore

Maybe he wore us down. The decades of often indifferent movies, the endless wacky guest-spots on sitcoms, chat show appearances that fatigued the host and viewer long before the commercial break, all of that took its toll on the public … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: “Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write about a Serial Killer”

Posted on January 2, 2026 by Roger Moore

Sometimes a film title says it all, or at least entirely too much. Turkish filmmaker Tolga Karaçelik blunders into that truism all too eagerly with his American feature film debut — a comic thriller he deigned to over-label “Psycho Therapy: … Continue reading →

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