Tag: Comedy
Dual is an Absurdist Sci-Fi Dramedy That Just Misses Digging Deep Enough (Sundance Film Festival)
Dual introduces us to Sarah (Karen Gillan) who was recently diagnosed with a rare and incurable disease and is unsure how to process the news. As she deals with her coming death, Sarah decides to ease the pain…
Read More »Everything Everywhere All At Once is the Creative Cinema Audiences Didn’t Know They’ve Craved
Everything Everywhere All at Once transports its audience and laundromat co-owner Evelyn Wong (Michelle Yeoh) through an interdimensional rupture that unravels reality. Evelyn soon finds herself face to face with an alternate version of her husband Waymond (Ke…
Read More »Licorice Pizza is an Ode to Young Love That Teaches Universal Lessons For Any Age
Coming of age stories can teach us a lot about human behavior and the latest film from Paul Thomas Anderson is no exception. Licorice Pizza takes us to the San Fernando Valley in the 1970s as Gary Valentine (Cooper…
Read More »Belfast is an All-Encompassing Family Drama and One of 2021’s Best (Middleburg Film Festival)
At times, our world today feels as if it’s on the precipice of completely splintering. People feel more separated than they have in a long time with a growing number of people in the United States feeling as…
Read More »Last Night in Soho is a Stylish Modern Horror Movie with Some Substance
Popular director Edgar Wright makes his return to the big screen with Last Night in Soho, promising to bring Wright’s cool, funny, hip style to the horror genre this time. Last Night in Soho introduces us to Ellie (Thomasin…
Read More »Jessica Chastain and Andrew Garfield are Empathetic and Brilliant in The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Americans of a certain age are undoubtedly familiar with Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker. The infamous televangelists created a vast television empire based around their folksy, midwestern evangelicalism and Tammy Faye’s loud, multicolored appearance. These same Americans also…
Read More »CODA Balances Laughter and Inclusion for the Differently Abled in One of 2021’s Best Films (Sundance Film Festival)
Growing up is hard to do. All of us have experienced the hardships of transitioning from a teenager to a young adult and making those vital decisions about which direction you want to begin to steer your life…
Read More »How It Ends’ Moments of Comedic Wit Too Sparse to Lift the Film Overall (Sundance Film Festival)
Films taking a comedic look at the day the world realizes it is coming to an end have seen steady production and release over the past decade and it honestly makes perfect sense. Exploration of what people would…
Read More »Werewolves Within Adds Comedic Flair to a Quality Whodunit Horror Mystery
Film adaptations of video games have been notoriously hard to pull off. Much of the focus for these types of films have been on satisfying the gamer fan base and making them as much like their source material…
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Red Rocket is a Black Comedy Entertaining Enough to Mask The Stench of Its Protagonist (Middleburg Film Festival)
In life, we run into people of all varieties. Some are nicer than others, some smarter than others, but everyone just wants their piece of the pie. In chasing success, some people take a path that’s more morally…
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