Violence is never the answer – unless you’re a member of a minor league hockey team hailing from some small town in the heartlands of America, in which case it isn’t only allowed, but actively encouraged. They say hockey without violence is only half the experience – or at least this is what we’re led…
Category: comedy
One of Them Days (2025)
They say friends are the family we choose – and just like family, they have a tendency to get on our nerves from time to time, as is the case with any kind of relationship, with the most meaningful usually being those that are built from a combination of love and frustration. This idea is…
The 4:30 Movie (2024)
One of the most common recurring trends in contemporary cinema is the tendency of any director of even the slightest stature to make a film later in their career that is either marketed as a love letter to the cinema or a distinctly personal work based on their formative years, crafting stories about their younger…
The Ladies Man (1961)
For all of his personal flaws and divisive reputation over the years, Jerry Lewis was awfully funny and someone who more than earned his place within the comedic canon – and few films prove this better than The Ladies Man, in which the iconic comedian not only stars but also writes and directs, telling the…
Big Boys (2024)
At some point, we all experience some kind of awakening in various forms, where we suddenly realize where we fit into this confusing and challenging world, and take the necessary steps to integrate ourselves into our respective niches or communities, should they be available. For some, this is a smooth process in which one slides…
Desert Blue (1998)
While it is accompanied by challenges, there is something genuinely compelling about that ambigious space between adolescence and adulthood, where we spend a few years trying to find our footing in the world, being mature enough to understand some of life’s harshest realities, but still possessing a kind of naivete that prevents us from entirely…
To Be or Not to Be (1983)
Perfection is impossible to replicate, but there is the possibility of producing something close enough to an approximation that we can at least be thoroughly entertained. As far as comedy goes, there are few films more flawless than Ernst Lubitsch’s masterful To Be or Not to Be, one of an elite group of films that…
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
The statement “they don’t make them like they used to” has been worn out to the point of exhaustion, but there are some occasions when even the most forward-thinking of viewers see a film and are struck by the realization that we may never see something quite like that ever again, which is both a…
Our Hospitality (1923)
There has never been another artist quite like Buster Keaton – there have been many terrific actors who have mastered the art of physical comedy, and even more tremendous directors that have managed to create new and exciting ways of telling these stories on screen, but rarely have we found people who can not only…
Theodora Goes Wild (1936)
While the debate around the exact film that kickstarted the screwball comedy genre continues to be a subject of considerable contention (with the general perception being that it can be reduced to the fascinating tug-of-war between Howard Hawks’ The Twentieth Century and Frank Capra’s It Happened One Night as the singular pioneering work), there are…
