Who’s Laughing Now? – Film and TV Comedy in 2011
October 14, 2025And so the clock has run out on 2011. We had some major comedy misfires on...
Ross Noble and Friends, Cranleigh Arts Centre, England
October 11, 2025It showcased all of Noble’s best points: the delight in the ludicrous, the ideas tripping over...
The Weekly Listicle Is Rated NC-17
October 6, 2025Censors save the NC-17 rating for extra special cases, and in practice it feels like much...
The Weekly Listicle: Some Movies Are About Things
September 19, 2025At last, the long-rumored prequel/remake of John Carpenter’s 1982 masterpiece The Thing infects theaters across the...
The Weekly Listicle: The Art Of The Heist
August 30, 2025This week, I join forces with Brett Davinger to chronicle some of the best heists, rip-offs,...
Trailer Watch: Brett Ratner’s Tower Heist
August 29, 2025How does Tower Heist look to all you out there? Will it be in-your-face fun from...
Book Review: The Craigslist Murders by Brenda Cullerton
August 27, 2025An interior “desecrator” who despises the bored super-rich housewives who can afford her services, she lives...
I Am NOT An Animal! (But I Play One In The Movies)
August 12, 2025Putting animal antics into movies is a perennially popular way to cobble up a goofball family...
The Weekly Listicle: Three Rings Of Circus Movie Mayhem!
August 3, 2025The circus is a complicated enterprise, and its symbolic value in storytelling has many faces. It...
Valentine’s Day Fallout, Chapter Two: Love Most Peculiar in My Dog Tulip
July 18, 2025It is difficult to describe the feeling that My Dog Tulip leaves in one's heart once...




