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Tag: comedy

reviews

EASY A

Believe Half of What You See, and None of What You Hear.

Posted on September 26, 2010June 2, 2012
festivals, reactions, TIFF, Toronto

TIFF Review: SUPER

Shut Up Crime!

Posted on September 14, 2010August 14, 2011
festivals, TIFF, Toronto

TIFF Review: TAMARA DREWE

This Won’t Make Any Year-End Top Ten’s, But Gosh is It Charming.

Posted on September 13, 2010August 14, 2011
reactions, TIFF, Toronto

TIFF Review: THE TRIP

Dinner with Brydon and Coogan Over and Over…What a Brilliant Concept for a Film?

Posted on September 12, 2010August 14, 2011
reviews

SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD

The Story of a Kid Whose Brain Always Seems to be Going a Mile a Minute, But Whose Guts Never Seem to Find First Gear.

Posted on August 15, 2010August 24, 2013
reviews

DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS

It’s Not Funny…It’s Just Mean

Posted on August 1, 2010June 16, 2012
festivals, nxne, Toronto

If I Was Your Vampire: SUCK Plays NXNE

Rock & roll is both vicious and ridiculous. It’s vicious in its dark undertones that permeate through the chord changes and vile words that have … Read More ›

Posted on June 17, 2010July 21, 2011
reviews

GET HIM TO THE GREEK

Rock & Roll decadence has never seemed so tedious

Posted on June 6, 2010June 16, 2012
reviews

MICMACS

Jeunet drifts back towards AMELIE.

Posted on June 3, 2010June 16, 2012
watchin' & writin'

Back to Basics – THE GENERAL

Chaplin battled people and situations; Keaton battled objects. For my money, there was never a better battle than the fight he put up in THE GENERAL.

Posted on May 23, 2010September 22, 2012
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Chatanooga Choo-Choo (Guest Blogger GRAVY TRAIN Review)

Susie Q has returned! She arrives just in time to give your faithful narrator a much-needed day off from writing. I’m actually honoured to have … Read More ›

Posted on May 11, 2010
trailers

Dinner at Eight (DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS Trailer)

I get help but get the feeling that this will either be really funny…or really suck.

Posted on April 7, 2010March 20, 2012

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