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Anyone who’s had their fill of the increasingly shallow buffet of American culture will find it easy to relate comedian Bobcat Goldthwait’s (Shakes the Clown, World’s Greatest Dad) no-holds-barred, sacred cow-barbecuing satire that targets everything from our increasingly shallow pop culture to bad manners. It takes the shotgun approach — literally so in some scenes — … Continue reading
Thanks to the combination of a clever screenplay by Bert V. Royal and charismatic performance by Emma Stone, Easy A is an engaging, winning entry into what has become tired genre, the teen comedy. Stone plays Olive Penderghast, the type of high school student who goes largely unnoticed by her peers. Rather than spend a … Continue reading
The Texas Theater presents a special 4th of July outdoor screening of the romantic comedy One Crazy Summer (1986), 9pm, July 4, in Kiest Park. Details Cinemark Theaters and Paramount Studios continue their Reel Classics summer film series with a screening of a digitally restored print of the musical-themed compilation That’s Entertainment (1974), 2 and … Continue reading
Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill in ’21 Jump Street’ As a feature film retread of a vapid ’80s cop show re-imagined as an R-rated slapstick action-comedy starring that one kid from Superbad and that dude from G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, the comedy 21 Jump Street should logically suck. It somehow works, and works well. Directors … Continue reading
Quite likely the first caper comedy to pit a tone-deaf policeman against a gang of anarchist musicians, Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjärne Nilsson’s Sound of Noise is a light, crisp bit of cinema imported from Sweden. Expanding the duo’s 2001 short film “Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers”, the story lightly spoofs police procedurals as it … Continue reading
The Texas Theater presents a screening of a 35mm print of Mel Brooks’ classic comedy Young Frankenstein (1974), 8pm, June 24, at the theater. Details Cinemark Theaters and Paramount Studios kick-off their Reel Classics summer film series continues with a screening of John Ford’s epic western The Searchers (1956), 2 and 7pm, June 27, at select Cinemark theaters. Details The Magnolia’s The Big Movie films series begins … Continue reading
At last, a romantic comedy for those of us who hate romantic comedies, as well as movie that finally takes a more upbeat approach to the apocalypse. Seeking a Friend for the End of the World doesn’t build towards a forced fairy tale conclusion, rather it sticks to its disillusioned guns and delivers something more true. Then it … Continue reading
Consider it an unabashedly guilty pleasure: Cabin Fever (2002) is a tongue-in-cheek, low-budget indie horror comedy with a wicked sense of humor that was sorely missing from the brainless horror schlock of the early 2000s. While those movies were content to rehash the same slasher tropes ad nauseum with little irony, writer-director Eli Roth made his feature … Continue reading
It’s a startling moment when Jeff Who Lives at Home opens with actor Jason Segel dictating to a tape recorder the meaning of M. Night Shyamalan’s Signs — not so much because it’s a tight close-up, but because we’re not used to seeing such sad desperation and confusion on the face of the perpetually and endearingly goofy Segel. It … Continue reading
The Kimball Art Museum’s Free Film Series presents Louis Malle’s documentary Place de la Republique (1974) in conjunction with the museum’s Age of Impressionism exhibit at 2 pm, Sunday, June 17, in the museum auditorium. Details Cinemark Theaters and Paramount Studios kick-off their Reel Classics summer film series continues with a screening of Orson Welles’ masterpiece Cool Hand … Continue reading
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