All tagged Comedy
Collectively, I think we all needed this movie a lot more than this movie needed us. At this time I don’t think I have to point out that the world is a dumpster fire of epic proportions, out of control and about to send a spark into a dynamite factory. The women of SNL past came together to write, direct, and star in this ensemble comedy about long time female friendship at an older age.
This Netflix show focuses on a caricature of Gad: French, rich, entitled, arrogant, and fostering some serious doubts about what he has done with his life. Though this is not the show his stand-up has informed, it has done well using him as a straight man to his supporting cast’s antics.
O’Connell is also gay, and that duality in identity lends to a truly innovative and pioneering show that showcases rarely told stories. The show follows Ryan as he realizes how closeted his behavior has become, and he strives to finally become independent and authentic.
While television critics have lauded the bad behavior of people literally killing people in the most profane and evil ways, millennials with daddy issues or middle-aged upper-class sophisticates engaging in bad behavior has never been tolerated by audiences.
What I most want to get across in this review is that I felt that the story contained real truths about lives that are often diminished by society at large. Between the life or death madcap adventures and evasion of the police, there are real moments of mom angst and frustration that come across as nakedly real.
I’m not going to mince words on this one: this was a grueling film watching experience and it has left me dazed. How, in this day and age, are we still allowing such obviously bad and irrelevant films to be made?
James C. Strouse is swiftly becoming one of my favorite indie directors and writers with the inclusion of this Jessica Williams star vehicle. She previously starred in his 2015 film People, Places, Things where she played a talented student in a graphic writing class. In this film she is the principle character, and my goodness, does she shine through in all her exquisiteness.
Eddie Mannix is a complicated historical figure who becomes increasingly interesting as you learn more about his life. Several films have tried to encapsulate and explain his role with MGM, as a general manager and comptroller, but it’s difficult. To come out and say what he did, and to who, and why, is still tricky business, even if his reign ended some fifty years ago with his 1963 death.
Is there a way to explain, or even review Lady Dynamite, a show that bends the definition of comedy itself? Maria Bamford is a well-known alternative comic, voice actress, former commercial spokesperson, and mental illness activist who just released the second season of this, her semi-autobiographical show.
While the poster suggests this story is all about mother-daughter relations, it actually centers on the mother, Marnie Minervini (Susan Sarandon). Marnie moves to Los Angeles from New York to be closer to her middle-aged daughter, Lori (Bryne) who finds her widowed mother to be meddling.
Trying to have a little self-awareness, I can say that I fit some of the stereotypes of this film, and with a humble attitude, I can also say I agree with some of this patronizing spoonfed morality. That being said, this film still sucks.
Family is also a huge part of the story, because Colleen possessed a newfound sense of propriety, though that sense of superiority is undermined by her mother, a pot smoking maternal figure who still tries to understand and connect with her absent daughter.
Allen has always had an interest in vintage 1920s appeal, whether it’s the detective novels of Raymond Chandler (The Curse of the Jade Scorpion) or the literary scene of Paris (Midnight in Paris), or the glamour and sophistication of Hollywood’s golden age (Café Society).
The film centers on two losers who want to become a famous actor and screenwriter. Their thirtieth birthdays arrive and they still haven’t made it in Tinsel town, so they decide that they will become famous that very day. Fame, or more commonly infamy, is an attainable goal in today’s Internet obsessed culture...
Field’s performance as Doris is simply joyful. She is a woman who is beginning again, blissfully innocent to the world around her, and yet she has suffered for decades, as she gave up her life to take care of her mother.
The film tries to be funny, in a bleak, sarcastic kind of way, but it does not deliver. Much like Sonnenfeld’s other venture, Wild Wild West, the film tries to be an edgy contemporary to a familiar genre and fails miserably.
The character of Sam was well played in the film by Tessa Thompson but Logan Browning was born to play this role. Not only is Sam a smart, passionate leader and activist, but she also has her own fears and doubts about the state of her relationships.
Though the show is still eccentric and funny in the best of ways, its seasonal arc completely falls apart by episode two and never picks up again.
If you’re not already impressed by this show’s humor, masterful production, and fluid episodic structure, here’s a crazy fact: Aziz Ansari really did move to Italy and learned how to make pasta for a year. I mean, for realsies you guys.
