Category: Comedy

Dough and Opening night at the SF Jewish film festival

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I attended opening night of the SF Jewish Film Festival at the Castro last night. It was, for the most part, an enjoyable evening. Although it did start with the inevitable reserved seating problem. The whole front half of the theater was cordoned off for VIPs. Luckily, I convinced a volunteer usher that as press, … Continue reading Dough and Opening night at the SF Jewish film festival

Miracle Mile: A quirky romantic comedy thriller about the ultimate disaster. My Blu-ray review

~ Lincoln Spector

I usually review Blu-rays of well-loved classics. This time, I'm covering a little-known film you've probably never heard of. But it should be a well-loved classic. Miracle Mile starts as a quirky, one-of-a-kind romantic comedy. Harry (Anthony Edwards) woos Julie (Mare Winningham)--in a science museum--with his wit and his slide trombone. He meets her grandparents. … Continue reading Miracle Mile: A quirky romantic comedy thriller about the ultimate disaster. My Blu-ray review

Bill Plympton’s absurd love story: Cheatin’ (my review)

~ Lincoln Spector

A Adult animation Written and directed by Bill Plympton If Bill Plympton isn’t the strangest, most iconoclastic, bizarre, and brilliant animator of all time, we live in a very weird world. His instantly recognizable style takes caricature—the heart of all animation—to an extreme beyond anyone else working in features. Consider Jake—the irresistible hunk in Cheatin’. … Continue reading Bill Plympton’s absurd love story: Cheatin’ (my review)

Undead comedy should have died sooner: What We Do in the Shadows

~ Lincoln Spector

B- Mockumentary Written and directed by Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi This vampire mockumentary from New Zealand feels a bit like an article in The Onion or The Borowitz Report. The headline and the first couple of paragraphs are very funny. But as you go deeper into it, you experience longer waits between laughs. The … Continue reading Undead comedy should have died sooner: What We Do in the Shadows

Bisexual Iranian Immigrant Comedy Not Great–But Appropriate

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C Comedy Written and directed by Desiree Akhavan There's nothing really wrong with Desiree Akhavan's autobiographical tale about a twenty-something woman trying to find her place--professionally but mostly romantically and sexually--in Brooklyn. But there's nothing really right about it, either. The concept is very much like Girls, but the execution lacks the HBO series' humor … Continue reading Bisexual Iranian Immigrant Comedy Not Great–But Appropriate

The Interview at the New Parkway (Spoiler: The theater didn’t blow up)

~ Lincoln Spector

I haven't written anything yet about The Interview and its assorted release problems. Why should I? Everyone else has already written about it. Besides, I was on vacation. Now I'm back. Sunday night, my wife and I saw Kim Jong Un's least favorite movie at the New Parkway. Perhaps it was a case of lowered … Continue reading The Interview at the New Parkway (Spoiler: The theater didn’t blow up)

Harold and Maude–Still funny and inspiring after all these years

~ Lincoln Spector

The 1971 comedy Harold and Maude fit the late hippy era as perfectly as Pink Floyd and the munchies. At a time when young Americans were embracing non-conformity, free love, ecstatic joy, and 40-year-old Marx Brothers movies, this counterculture romance between an alienated and death-obsessed young man and an almost 80-year-old woman made total sense. … Continue reading Harold and Maude–Still funny and inspiring after all these years