Tag: Comedy
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Review: Clerks II (2006)
In 1994, then (nearly) brand new director Kevin Smith gave us the world behind the cash register with his arguably brilliant albeit ultra low budget movie Clerks. Filmed at night in the very convenience store where he spent years engaged in retail drudgery, Smith gave us a bawdy and far more entertaining version of retail…
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Review: Clerks (1994)
Most of us have had the experience of working retail. And most of us have had similar impressions of the experience: yech! Most of us disliked retail so much that one retail job during a lifetime was plenty. Working in the land of cubicles like Dilbert is a real step up from ringing up retail…
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Review: Young Frankenstein at the Kennedy Center
If Mel Brooks can make a hit Broadway musical from his 1968 movie The Producers, then he should be able to do the same with his much more popular 1974 movie Young Frankenstein, right? Just in case the idea was not a good one, to even the odds why not add your wife and the…
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Two flicks and a show
For your amusement, here are a few mini-reviews of movies and shows I have seen recently. The Men Who Stare at Goats If you put George Clooney, Ewan McGreggor, Jeff Bridges and Kevin Spacey in the same movie will it necessarily be funny? To me this was the existential question of The Men Who Stare…
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Review: Brüno
In January 2008, I reviewed Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat and labeled it the funniest movie I had ever seen. So obviously, I would be a candidate for Baron Cohen’s latest movie Brüno, right? My wife was not interested in going, but fortunately my daughter’s taste in humor mirrors my own, so we spent $10 a…
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Review: Zack and Miri Make a Porno
Are you easily offended? If so skip Zack and Miri Make a Porno, which is now playing at your local theater. There is so much over the top swearing in this movie that even sailors might legitimately take offense. Practically every other word is an expletive. And it’s not just the S word and the…
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Thoroughly Eddie
Have you seen Eddie Izzard yet? Izzard is an eccentric 46-year-old British comedian who comes to the states occasionally and gives sold out performances to fans of his very skewed British humor. He has quite a following among a certain class of people like, say, my wife and daughter. No one would mistake his popularity…
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In Step with The Capitol Steps
There are a whole list of things that I as a Washingtonian should have done over the nearly thirty years I have lived here but have not done. Tourists often imagine Washingtonians as constantly down on the Mall or attending concerts at the Kennedy Center. The truth is few of us have that kind of…
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Review: Borat
Am I the last person on the planet to have seen Borat? If so, this review will not garner many hits. It is rare for me at my advanced age (I am 50) to see any movie and truthfully say, “I’ve never seen anything like that before!” The last time I said this about a…
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Review: The Simpsons Movie
It is hard to believe, but The Simpsons are twenty years old! Equally odd is that this longest continuously syndicated animated cartoon in American history went twenty years without hitting the big screen. If Simpsons fans were anxious, then their long nightmarish wait is thankfully over. Moreover, I can report that I literally cannot recall…
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