It was once said that a great movie always seems new when you watch it. There are a small but powerful group of films that I rewatch constantly, and what amazes me about these films are how I always find something refreshing and new about them – I still watch the story unfolding with the…
Category: comedy
Joy (2015)
I need to be perfectly honest here – I cannot understand why a film was made about Joy Mangano. She did invent the Miracle Mop, something that did change household cleaning, and many other patented items. Fair enough, the story of how a woman rises from living poverty to being the head of a powerful…
Mistress America (2015)
In 2013, Noah Baumbach, quite arguably the greatest director of independent comedies working today, teamed up with his girlfriend and fellow independent film veteran Greta Gerwig for Frances Ha, a film that reminded us that independent cinema is a truly unique art form, and one of the most tricky but rewards sub-genres of cinema to…
A Very Murray Christmas (2015)
It’s a tradition at this time of year to watch a different Christmas special. I considered The Star Wars Holiday Season, but I made a grand total of seven minutes into it before considering jumping off a tall building. Instead, I chose to watch the Christmas special that puts one of my favorite performers front…
Trainwreck (2015)
I have a strange feeling many people will avoid this film because it is a raunchy comedy with a ton of dirty jokes and some very explicit content – the same people that avoided films like The Hangover and Bridesmaids. The problem is that while Trainwreck does contain some very colorful and crude humor, it…
Tangerine (2015)
There are two kinds of independent films – those that keep to the pre-determined structure of a film, which is the most popular – think of the nihilistic dialogue, the quirky characters and the offbeat humor. Then you get the independent films that try to revolutionize independent cinema altogether. Tangerine fits into the latter category,…
I’ll See You in My Dreams (2015)
There is nothing quite like an authentic indie comedy. A film that strives to do nothing than just tell a small, intricate story, with no cliches or big-budget effects. With independent films becoming so popular today (or perhaps with the billion dollar budgets of blockbusters, nearly everything else is an independent film in comparison), there…
7 Chinese Brothers (2015)
This is a very tricky film. I personally loved it because everything involving Jason Schwartzman is automatically brilliant in my books, and it seems almost a yearly ritual for him to star in one of these mumblecore indie comedies as a meandering intellectual intent on finding the meaning of life, as long as, you know,…
Natural Born Killers (1994)
I was opposed to seeing this film for the longest time. As an enormous Quentin Tarantino fan, I have been reluctant to watch this film, because the idea that someone would take a script that the young, idealistic genius wrote and completely mangled it beyond recognition was a travesty, and Tarantino himself certainly agreed, because…
The Big Kahuna (1999)
Being a film lover means a lot more than just seeing all the cinematic greats that have defined cinema, it also means finding those obscure little gems of films that no one else seems to consider important or notable. It has always been a pleasure of mine to find films that are obscure and little-seen,…
The Postmodern Pelican 