Last Vegas scares the living piss out of me. Not because it’s spectacularly bad (it seems merely normally bad). No, Last Vegas represents more than a movie. It represents an idea. And that idea is a return to Kings of Comedy-itis. Permit me to explain. The Original Kings of Comedy […]
I’d like to believe myself above the humor of Johnny Knoxville and the rest of the Jackass crew. They inflict ghastly bodily harm upon themselves and call it comedy, which, to those of us who fancy ourselves cerebral in our sense of humor, can’t help but come off as lowbrow. […]
My Carrie review was going to be a beautiful, two-pronged assault, like the Nazi invasion of Poland or texting horrible things to your ex-girlfriend as you post the nude photos she shared with you in confidence on her Facebook wall: I was going to decry the making of another unnecessary […]
While it’s funnier to trash something (especially blindly), and good comedy should be nothing more than hate speech with pauses for laughter, I’m going to go against my better instincts and say the following: Don Jon could be a very good film. Is it because I think Joseph Gordon-Levitt is […]
When did Robert De Niro quit? Because he did. There came a time, at some point, where he thought to himself, “I’ve given the world Jake LaMotta, Vito Corleone, Rupert Pupkin, Travis Bickle: Now it’s time to collect paychecks and bang sweet, black ass. Where is the script for Fockers […]
I’m in my early 30s. With regard to television and movies, I am a wealth of knowledge pertaining to nearly all programing aimed at my demo. Boardwalk Empire, The Walking Dead…if I haven’t seen it, I’ve at least heard of it. Somehow, though, music has passed me by. Completely. I […]
Sunday night television is a land of wonderment for me. From Breaking Bad to Game of Thrones to Mad Men, it seems there is a wellspring of high-budget, intricately written and directed adult fare to entertain and intellectually challenge. I find myself rewatching episodes of these nuanced pieces of art […]
The only positive in my life is an AIDS test. That and a solid sense of humor. If the comedy elite finds something funny, I almost always find it funny as well. The exception being the work of Simon Pegg. When it comes to Mr. Pegg, literally the entirety of […]
The original Kick-Ass was a movie that I expected nothing of and was moderately entertained by when I caught it on Netflix a few years after its release. As I recall, the story centered around a teenager trying to become a real-life superhero and allying himself with a preteen broad […]