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Classic Film Review: Looking for Lean Laughs from “Blithe Spirit” (1945)
The shifting sands of editor-turned-director David Lean‘s career took him through early adaptations of Noël Coward scripts, included some definitive adaptations of Charles Dickens and eventually settled on the sweeping epics which is he best known for today — “Bridge … Continue reading
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Tagged comedy, david-lean, margaret-rutherford, movie-review, noel-coward, review, rex-harrison, theatre
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Classic Film Review: Lemmon and Allyson remake “It Happened One Night” — as a musical — “You Can’t Run Away from It” (1956)
“You Can’t Run Away from It” is a comic curiosity from the early career of Jack Lemmon, a musical filmed when studios were scrambling to lure filmgoers away from TV and when musicals were so overexposed — “The King and … Continue reading
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Tagged comedy, film-review, jack-lemmon, june-allyson, movie-musicals, movies
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Classic Film Review: A Little Romance, a Touch of Class, and Class Warfare — “The Philadelphia Story” (1940)
It begins with a screwball tease — a couple, wordlessly breaking up, climaxing with the husband maniacally grabbing the wife by the forehead and shoving her back through the door and onto the floor. But even though the wife is … Continue reading
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Tagged cary-grant, comedy, cukor, film, jimmy-stewart, katharine-hepburn, movies
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Movie Review: Buster Keaton in a “Minions” comedy by Terry Gilliam? “Hundreds of Beavers”
We tend to think of slapstick comedy gag writing as a lost art. It didn’t die along with Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, but its most acclaimed practioners these days are in animation, heirs to the Chuck Jones/Looney Tunes tradition. … Continue reading
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Tagged beavers, comedy, film, mike-cheslik, movie-review, movies, olivia-graves
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Movie Review: A mourning comedy becomes Thai travelogue? There’s a “Cautionary Tale
In the cinema, there are dramedies and tragi-comedies, and whatever the heck the indie “Cautionary Tale” turns out to be. It begins as a funny dark comedy about two men bickering over the ashes of their loved ones. Neil (Ted … Continue reading
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Tagged books, comedy, horror, indie-dramedy, movies, music, thailand, tubi
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Movie Review: Elijah Wood, trapped in the New Zealand wilderness with a “Bookworm”
“Bookworm” is a quirky Kiwi comedy that pairs-up The Once and Future Hobbit Elijah Wood with an eleven year-old girl in the wilds of his old stomping grounds, New Zealand. It’s a generally warm, kid-friendly adventure with tiny bits of … Continue reading
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Tagged 2024, comedy, elijah-wood, film, movies, new-zealand
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Movie Review: How did we Ever get through a Weekend without “Saturday Night” Live?
As history, “Saturday Night” is the ultimate exercise in “OK, Boomer” nostalgia for “the first generation to grow up on TV.” As entertainment, Jason Reitman’s putting-on-a-show comedy about the chaotic 1975 opening night of “Saturday Night Live” is a breathless … Continue reading
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Tagged comedy, film, j-k-simmons, movie-review, movies, not-ready-for-prime-time-players, reitman, saturday-night-live, snl
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Documentary Review: “Will & Harper” take a Road Trip to test America’s Transgender Tolerance
What was “the pitch” for “Will & Harper” like? This road trip documentary about two longtime friends and colleagues getting together after one has transitioned is sweet as can be, but it’s “showbiz” all the way. Will Ferrell met Andrew … Continue reading
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