Tag Archives: comedy

Movie Review: What Guy Wouldn’t go Mental Craving Weatherman Paul Rudd’s “Friendship?”

Posted on June 2, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Cringe Comedy” is taken to the next level, and then some, in the intimately uncomfortable “Friendship,” a story of the broken state of bro bonding and on-the-spectrum oddness. Writer-director Andrew DeYoung taps into a generation’s male isolation with a dark … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Homeless Man hears “The Golden Voice” on Rittenhouse Square

Posted on May 22, 2025 by Roger Moore

“The Golden Voice” is the most sentimental movie treatment of living on the streets since “The Pursuit of Happyness.” Cliched, cute and cloying, its very engaging cast is never able to overcome the weight of Hallmark Movie homelessness this script … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Vince Vaughn invites Staten Island to eat with their “Nonnas”

Posted on May 13, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Nonnas” is a heaping helping of cinematic Italian-American comfort food, a family rom-com where the romance is in the food and the comedy is in the scrappy little old ladies who prepare it. Director Stephen Chbosky (“The Perks of Being … Continue reading →

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Documentary Review: “Tom Dustin: Portrait of a Comedian” pre-rehab

Posted on April 29, 2025 by Roger Moore

So a 50ish alcoholic manic depressive comic moves to Key West to run a comedy club. Sounds like a movie, right? Well, it did to Joe List. And as he’s one of the hot comics of his generation, he got … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? “Frozen Hot Boys” ice-sculpt their way to glory

Posted on April 14, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Frozen Hot Boys” is a Thai “Cool Runnings,” a cringy goof of a fish-out-of-water comedy about tropical trouble-makers who make a name for themselves in competitive ice and snow sculpting. Natapohn Tameeruks is Miss Chom, a bored vocational wood-carving teacher … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Pascal, Reaser, Sewell and Goggins as Hollywood “types” face their future and their humanity when they meet “The Uninvited”

Posted on April 5, 2025 by Roger Moore

Some indie films confound the viewer with a “What did these actors see in THIS?” connundrum. But not “The Uninvited.” What looks like another onanistic Hollywood-skewers-Hollywood dramedy set in a tony Hollywood Hills party is actually a priorities-questioning, expectations-upending and … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Serious and Seldom Seen Sellers — “The Blockhouse” (1973)

Posted on March 27, 2025 by Roger Moore

Filmed on the whim of a liquor empire heir, a “true story” whose German Army WWII victims were changed to French and citizens of other occupied countries, “The Blockhouse” is one of the strangest titles in the later, quixotic career … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A Master Mocks Yakuza Hit-Man Movies — “Broken Rage”

Posted on February 20, 2025 by Roger Moore

Leave it to Beat Takeshi to ridicule the cinematic elephantiasis that has even the Great Scorsese pushing the limits of how long a night out at the movies should last. And that Brady Corbet “Brutalist” guy? Three and a half … Continue reading →

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Netflixable? Amy Schumer toys with being “Kinda Pregnant”

Posted on February 7, 2025 by Roger Moore

It seem unfair that Amy Schumer‘s moment as America’s resident vulgarian and Queen of Crude has passed. We barely remember she was the Oscars hostess the night Will Smith slapped Chris Rock, that “Trainwreck” came out ten years ago and … Continue reading →

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BOX OFFICE: “Dog Man” fetches $36, “Companion” pays off, “Valiant One” barely registers

Posted on February 1, 2025 by Roger Moore

“Dog Man,” the new animated comedy from Dav Piley’s “Captain Underpants” kids’ novel universe, is proving to be a very good dog indeed, opening by selling some $13 million more worth of (higher priced tickets) than “Underpants” did eight years … Continue reading →

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