Tagged: comedy

March 30, 2020

Monday Movie: A Night at the Opera, by David Bax

It is my completely unscientific observation that most people’s favorite Marx Brothers movie is either Duck Soup or A Night at the Opera. Out of a sense of loyalty stemming from it being my first, I’ll probably always fall into...

david bax / home video hovel / movies / reviews

March 24, 2020

Home Video Hovel: Whisky Galore! & The Maggie, by David Bax

In the present day, when the “Ealing comedies” are invoked, the movies that come first to mind for most of us are Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Lavender Hill Mob, The Man in the White Suit and The Ladykillers. In...

alexander miller / criterion predictions / movies

March 18, 2020

Criterion Prediction #234: Girlfriends, by Alexander Miller

Title: Girlfriends Year: 1978 Director: Claudia Weil Cast: Melanie Mayron, Anita Skinner, Christopher Guest, Eli Wallach, Bob Balaban Synopsis: Susan Weinblatt, a photographer and her roommate/best friend Anne Munroe live a modest life together in New York City. However, Susan...

alexander miller / criterion predictions / movies

March 6, 2020

Criterion Prediction #232: Arsenic and Old Lace, by Alexander Miller

Title: Arsenic and Old Lace Year: 1944 Director: Frank Capra Cast: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Jack Carson, Raymond Massey Synopsis: A noted bachelor shocks everyone with an engagement notice. When he informs his kindly old pair of aunts, things take...

david bax / home video hovel / movies / reviews

March 3, 2020

Home Video Hovel: Passport to Pimlico, by David Bax

Before it even gets into its delightfully convoluted plot, 1949’s Passport to Pimlico, directed by Henry Cornelius and out now on Blu-ray from Film Movement Classics, establishes its neighborhood setting in the same way Spike Lee would 40 years later....

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

February 26, 2020

Greed: I Have to Celebrate You, Baby, by David Bax

“Too big to fail” is, in case you weren’t aware, an economic concept which says that some business institutions are so large and with such a long reach that their failure would be so catastrophic to so many individuals that...

josh long / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

February 6, 2020

The 2020 Oscar-Nominated Live Action Short Films: Weight, What?, by Josh Long

Short films! You don’t usually watch them unless they’re nominated for an Academy Award, or if one of your friends made one. Fortunately for you, it’s Oscar season, so you’re likely falling into the first category. Here’s the breakdown of...

dayne linford / home video hovel / movies / reviews

February 5, 2020

Home Video Hovel: The Titfield Thunderbolt, by Dayne Linford

With a name like The Titfield Thunderbolt, the director of A Fish Called Wanda (1988), and the same studio that made gems like The Ladykillers (1955) and Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), there’s the understandable feeling that this film really...

i do movies badly / jim rohner / movies / podcast

February 5, 2020

I Do Movies Badly: The Skeleton Twins

The Skeleton Twins would have already been a great film thanks to the script from Mark Heyman and director Craig Johnson but it’s accentuated by the indelible mark that Reed Morano leaves on it with her emotionally evocative camerawork and lighting.

2020 / david bax / movies / reviews / sundance / sundance 2020 / Theatrical Review

January 29, 2020

Sundance 2020: Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia, by David Bax

If it makes you feel safer to be able to assign a movie to a genre then you can call Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia, the first feature length movie from the Miami collective known as the Borscht Corporation, a...

Tagged: comedy

Monday Movie: A Night at the Opera, by David Bax

Home Video Hovel: Whisky Galore! & The Maggie, by David Bax

Criterion Prediction #234: Girlfriends, by Alexander Miller

Criterion Prediction #232: Arsenic and Old Lace, by Alexander Miller

Home Video Hovel: Passport to Pimlico, by David Bax

Greed: I Have to Celebrate You, Baby, by David Bax

The 2020 Oscar-Nominated Live Action Short Films: Weight, What?, by Josh Long

Home Video Hovel: The Titfield Thunderbolt, by Dayne Linford

I Do Movies Badly: The Skeleton Twins

Sundance 2020: Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia, by David Bax

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