Middle-aged Charlie Bubbles (Albert Finney) resents how famous he is. A world-renowned author who has dominated London as one of its great artists, he’s amassed fame and adoration from countless fans who are endeared to his unconventional style of writing and ability to tell a story that resonates with all of them. He decides that…
Category: comedy
Standing Up, Falling Down (2020)
Two very different individuals collide unexpectedly, entering into the life of a complete stranger and finding an unconventional kinship is shared between them. One of them is Scott (Ben Schwartz), a young man who had been trying to realize his dream of becoming a famous stand-up comedian but was forced to leave Los Angeles when…
Big Daddy (1999)
His recent output has made us collectively reevaluate the career of Adam Sandler, where his skills as a comedic actor, which were previously subjected to enormous disdain as a result of his vast amount of seeming-lacklustre work, being given another chance, with the clear conclusion being that, despite often appearing in awful films, Sandler as…
The Structure of Crystal (1969)
Two old friends are reunited years after finishing their studies. Jan (Jan Myslowicz), a scientific genius, gave up his aspirations of leading an academic life by retreating into the countryside, where he got married to a humble schoolteacher (Barbara Wrzesinska), and leads a relatively simple life in his tranquil surroundings. Marek (Andrzej Zarnecki) stayed behind…
Buffaloed (2020)
Peg (Zoey Deutch) is a precocious twenty-year-old who has grown up on the lower end of the economic spectrum in the city of Buffalo, where she’d had a long life of being on the margins and never truly being able to have the life she feels she deserves. As a result, she makes use of…
If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969)
Nine countries in three weeks, a single bus crowded with over a dozen inexperienced Americans, and a particularly jovial lothario of a tour guide – this is the stage set for If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium, Mel Stuart’s hilarious cross-country European odyssey that sees cultures clash in the most irreverent way imaginable. Telling…
Take the Money and Run (1969)
Exploring the filmography of Woody Allen is always a fascinating endeavour, and the further we go back in his career, the more we see how he’s changed as a filmmaker. Whether or not his change in style is indicative of growth or regression depends on how one feels about these different stages of his career….
Cactus Flower (1969)
Dr Julian Winston (Walter Matthau) is a successful dentist who leads quite an exciting life – his practice is successful, and he has amassed enough wealth to live a comfortable life. This helps him satiate his playboy tendencies, with his refusal to settle down, even in his middle age, being a distinct quality of him,…
Before You Know It (2019)
Rachel (Hannah Pearl Utt) and Jackie (Jen Tullock) are a pair of sisters living in New York. Their father is Mel Gurner (Mandy Patinkin), an acclaimed actor and playwright who has unfortunately reached a creative impasse with his latest work, and despite being regarded as quite a genius, his audience (or what remains of it),…
Tone-Deaf (2019)
Olive (Amanda Crew) has just been fired from her job, which comes almost simultaneously to the end of her most recent relationship, and in response to the crushing pressure of her modern millennial life, decides to pack up and leave, going on a solitary weekend excursion into the countryside, where she rents the house of…