by Allison S.
2.5 / 5 stars
She’s Out of My League is funny. More important, it’s not unfunny. So, so many recent comedies have the “funny” but with a rather high unfunny-to-funny content ratio. For every joke you laugh at in their trailers, there’s about 20 more you won’t laugh at while actually watching the film. […]
March 13th, 2010
Categories: Reviews, Comedies . Author: Allison . Comments: No Comments
Back when I wrote about the trailer for (500) Days of Summer, I immediately declared my love for it. Which means I had to go into this screening more cynical than I would have otherwise. In reality, I can’t allow my love to be given that easily. In fact, my notes start out a little […]
July 17th, 2009
Categories: Reviews, Independent Film, Comedies . Author: Allison . Comments: 2 Comments
posted by Allison, 6.18.09
Can’t say we’ve seen much historical comedy since Mel Brooks and Monty Python were done with it (and Encino Man doesn’t count). But in theaters this weekend is Year One, an historical comedy (think B.C.) starring Jack Black and Michael Cera.
Directed by Egon himself, aka Harold Ramis (Analyze This, Ghostbusters), and co-written […]
June 19th, 2009
Categories: Reviews, Comedies . Author: Allison . Comments: 1 Comment
THIS CONTEST HAS ENDED. We can only accept entries received by the deadline. If you got yours in on time, best of luck! We’ll pick our four winners soon.
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I’ll bet Darwin never saw Jack Black and Michael Cera coming. That’s the joke for this t-shirt celebrating this Friday’s release of the comedy Year One. And […]
June 17th, 2009
Categories: Contests, Comedies . Author: Norm Schrager . Comments: 62 Comments
A few things: Zooey Deschanel, music by Regina Spektor, Joseph Gordon-Levitt (awesome in so many movies lately), and the words “post-modern love story”. Now you know everything there is to know about me because on those things alone, I’ll go see this movie.*
The film uses a myriad of techniques (split […]
April 7th, 2009
Categories: Independent Film, Trailers, Comedies . Author: Allison . Comments: 1 Comment