Tag: comedy
Puncturing The American Dream: Honky Tonk Freeway Reconsidered
John Schlesinger’s notorious flop is a fascinatingly cynical – if heavily flawed – look at American culture.
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Nobody Likes A Good Laugh More Than I Do: The Artistic Value Of Comedy
It’s time that we took comedy a lot more seriously as an art form.
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Austin Powers – A Man Of His Time
Looking back at the Austin Powers films, a series now almost as out of touch with modern sensibilities as the character himself. But does that matter?
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Boris Karloff’s ‘Mad Doctor’ Cycle: An Appreciation
Looking back at the short series of underrated and provocative films that Boris Karloff made for Columbia Pictures at the start of the 1940s.
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Can You Dig It? A New Biography Of Legendary Dolemite Star Rudy Ray Moore
A new biography of the pioneering and outrageous star of Dolemite.
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The Espionage Era: Hot Enough For June
The first in our occasional series looking at the post-Bond spy movies that emerged in the 1960s is a lovely ‘accidental spy’ romp with Dirk Bogarde and Sylva Koscina.
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Black Bart – The Buried TV Sequel To Blazing Saddles
The Mel Brooks classic that became a TV series that ran for four seasons without being broadcast anywhere.
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The Ageless Appeal Of Harold And Maude
Cult cinema, desperate film hipsters, moral hypocrites and the joys of death – Hal Ashby’s oddball movie explores and exposes more than you might think.
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Raindance 2020: My Thoughts Are Silent
A quiet, cynical and darkly humorous look at Ukrainian life and hopeless dreams of escape that feels both alien and entirely relatable.
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The Becket List: Middle-Class Complaints About First World Problems
A new book taking swipes at daily irritants that whines when it needs to roar.
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The Lovers And The Underrated Charms Of The 1970s Sit Com Film Adaptation
The movies based on British sit-coms of the 1970s are better than you might have been led to believe.
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