Feb
25
Studio 666
I’m not the biggest Foo Fighters fan but I like their music well enough and I like Dave Grohl’s good guy vibe in general. So I really wanted to like this film… I was rooting for it as a big … Continue reading
Tag Archives: Comedy
Feb
16
Bigbug
I think I hated every brightly flashing headache-inducing inch of this nightmarish candy-colored melted popsicle mess of a movie. I simply found it insufferably grating and overly enthusiastic in a way that made me want to reach into the screen … Continue reading
Feb
07
Jackass Forever
No real point for me to actually review Jackass Forever. The fact is, I’m not a fan of the series or films. Not my stick-in-the-mud, party-pooping sense of humor. Not a big fan of practical jokes or these kinds of … Continue reading
Feb
03
Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild, The
Now, I’m not the biggest fan of the Ice Age series. I enjoyed the first one, find the rest pretty mediocre. But wow… they look amazing compared to this dreck from the fine folks running Disney+. Sure, giveth us the … Continue reading
Jan
31
Home Team
I know nothing of the true story this is based on, but I do know it’s better than most Happy Maddison films. It almost rates as a good flick but settles on being inoffensively harmless. The film stars Kevin James … Continue reading
Jan
16
Sex Appeal
Sex Appeal is a Hulu original film about an overachieving high school girl who is a master at STEM, but a novice at love and sex. Her long-distance boyfriend says he’s DTF (literally) when they meet at the next STEM … Continue reading
Jan
16
House, The (2022)
The House uses fur and cloth-based stop-motion animation to tell three independent stories set in a house. That might not be thrilling by the sound of it, but it’s a pretty fascinating and sometimes fascinatingly weird presentation. The first story … Continue reading
Jan
15
Hotel Transylvania: Transformania
You know, I swear I thought the third Hotel Transylvania was decent… I didn’t care much for the firs two but maybe I’d turned a corner and started to admire the goofy comedy. But this fourth film makes me think … Continue reading
Jan
04
Licorice Pizza
Paul Thomas Anderson in shaggy loose mode is an off and on prospect for me. Licorice Pizza roams where it wants to… it lopes and ambles and just hangs. It’s got a similar structure as The Master but I hated … Continue reading
Jan
03
Sing 2
I modestly enjoyed the first Sing movie… it was your basic underdog achievement movie. It was cute and sold itself well on great animation and a huge amount of licensed pop tunes. I could say all the same for the … Continue reading