Wedding Daze
January 18, 2008
It really isn’t fair that an awful film like License to Wed (2007) received a wide theatrical release while Wedding Daze a.k.a. The Pleasure of Your Company (2006) is released direct-to-video (it did receive a limited theatrical release in England in...
Rob & Big: Complete Seasons 1 & 2
January 16, 2008
Rob and Big is a reality show that tweaks The Odd Couple set-up with pro-skate boarder Rob Dyrdek, a scrawny white guy, and his best friend and bodyguard Christopher “Big Black” Boykin, a 300+lb black man, who share a house in the Hollywood Hills....
The Ten
January 15, 2008
Since The State broke up in 1995, fans of MTV’s answer to Saturday Night Live have been hoping for a reunion and the group has come close with Wet Hot American Summer (2001) and now The Ten (2007), a satire of the Ten Commandments. Imagine Krzysztof...
Cheech & Chong’s Up in Smoke: Special Collector’s Edition
December 18, 2007
Before there was Bill and Ted, before Wayne and Garth, before The Dude, there were the original pothead slackers, Cheech and Chong. This comedy duo got their start on the stand-up circuit in 1970s which they parlayed into a series of very successful comedy...
Hot Rod
December 18, 2007
Hot Rod (2007) marks one of the first films to feature the new generation of Saturday Night Live members with Andy Samberg and Bill Hader. It’s standard practice that SNL has become a launching pad for a movie career. Do Samberg and Hader have what...
Paris, Je T’aime
December 18, 2007
The short film, much like the short story, is an artform unto itself. It takes a certain set of skills as a storyteller to be able to tell a tale succinctly. People who make commercials have even less time. Unfortunately, outside of television stations...
Little Britain: The Complete Collection
December 18, 2007
With Saturday Night Live sinking further and further into mediocrity, sketch comedy was in desperate need of some new blood. From out of England came two warped comedic minds, Matt Lucas and David Walliams and their brilliantly twisted sketch comedy show...
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip: The Complete Series
October 26, 2007
Easily one of the most anticipated and hyped television shows to debut in the 2006-2007 season was Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, the brainchild of Aaron Sorkin, the creative force behind The West Wing. It promised to be a smart, insightful and funny...
Fletch: The “Jane Doe” Edition
October 24, 2007
For my money, Fletch (1985) is the best film Chevy Chase ever made. I can put the movie on at almost any time and still find it just as funny, no matter how many times I have seen it. And yet, the film is too often dismissed as just another dated piece...
You Kill Me
October 22, 2007
In the 1990s, director John Dahl was the go-to guy for clever, neo noirs with Red Rock West (1992) and The Last Seduction (1994). After thoroughly mining the genre the only direction left for him was comedy and this results in his latest crime film, You...
