1. Some comedy genius mocked up posters for the fake movies mentioned in Seinfeld. I’m forced to deduct a point for the omission of Brown Eyed Girl, though. – – – 2. It’s Not You, It’s Me, A wonderfully dark short film starring Gillian Jacobs. It gets the Peter John McLean Black Comedy Seal of […]
Films are a tricky thing. In review we look at the whole over the moments, and yet there are great films with even greater moments and to look over them for the whole accounts for a great loss of experience. This week, as we head toward fall and the general concession of awards season production, […]
Alright, so this is a bit of a cheat because the true highlight of this piece is a 34-minute film (see below). However, Werner Herzog’s latest endeavor is against texting while driving as he continues to make content for the AT&T campaign. The first product of this was a much publicized commercial that succinctly relays the […]
Netflix has a bad habit of lying to me. Four Lions is dark? Please. Four Lions couldn’t pass a brown paper bag test. It might be hilarious, but it’s not black. Here is why. I admit that black humor is a complicated beast. It gets easy to quickly characterize things as black or not based […]
It started with 21 Jump Street, a film that initially appealed in no way, but whose reputation began to precede it. Hearing again and again of quality, I was inspired to rent it, and upon doing so was shocked—like a bomb detonating my preconceived notions. Not only is it a film that has no reason […]
