TV Review: Arrested Development
Season 1 In a world in which we are inundated with bad, poorly thought out sitcoms, shitty, partisan news, and even worse reality television, the occasional show that’s original (not to mention...
View ArticleTV Review: NewsRadio: The Complete First and Second Seasons
I received the first two seasons of this fantastic show for Christmas last year, and have finally gotten around to watching them recently. I must say, NewsRadio is still just as funny as I remember it...
View ArticleTV Review: Chappelle’s Show: The Lost Episodes
If you have read our other reviews of Chappelle’s Show, you know that I am a big fan of it, and as such, I was pretty stoked when I got the last DVD. And I have to say, many of the sketches on this...
View ArticleTV Review: Futurama Volume One
I only watched this fantastic show once or twice when it was originally on the air, and wrote it off as a lazy Simpsons retread for Matt Groening and crew. I came back around to the series after...
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What Happened to Comedy?
Most comedies – whether they are movies, TV shows, sketches, whatever – work for one of a handful of reasons. Some of them toy with our beliefs and values, taking us over a line that we don’t want to...
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Movie Review: Zombieland
The trouble with a movie like Zombieland is that, no matter how good it is, it’s going to get compared to the high water mark of zombie comedies: Shaun of the Dead. It will invariably suffer from this...
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Movie Review: Fido
Taking a piss out of fifties popular culture is nothing new. That decade’s naivety and unfounded optimism make it easy to make light of. In that respect, Fido isn’t terribly original. However it...
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Movie Review: Hot Tub Time Machine
This is a movie I would have never considered watching if it wasn’t recommended to me. I was told that Hot Tub Time Machine was a dumb but funny lowbrow comedy. Unfortunately, they were only...
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Movie Review: The Other Guys
Buddy cop comedies are a dime a dozen; if it weren’t for the fact that they’re already (at least allegedly) comedies, they would be ripe for parody, because a parody of a comedy just doesn’t make any...
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Movie review: 50/50
So far as I know, there aren’t a lot of movies out there that could be described as cancer-comedies. After all, cancer isn’t really the topic to turn your ordinarily staid film to a couple hours of...
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