comedy

NYFF 2019: PARASITE 기생충: A Sharp, Vicious & Essential Masterpiece
NYFF 2019: PARASITE 기생충: A Sharp, Vicious & Essential Masterpiece

Bong Joon-ho has put together an intricate, multi-layered portrait of inequality and class. At the same time, he keeps the experience fun and intoxicating.

LITTLE MONSTERS: Horror Comedy at its Most Insufferable
LITTLE MONSTERS: Horror Comedy At Its Most Insufferable

Little Monsters is a horror comedy with no scares, and a comic potential that runs out of steam by the time the premise kicks in.

Fantastic Fest 2019: Eddie Murphy Comes Back with a Bang in DOLEMITE IS MY NAME
DOLEMITE IS MY NAME: Eddie Murphy Comes Back With A Bang

Dolemite is my Name manages to be a loving ode to Blaxploitation and Black independent filmmaking while still being one of the funniest films of the year so far.

DISENCHANTMENT Part 2: Honest, Vibrant, And Seriously Brave
DISENCHANTMENT Part 2: Honest, Vibrant & Seriously Brave

Disenchantment Part 2 feels new, current, and understanding of what makes it wonderful – chapter 3 not only feels necessary, but desperately asked for.

Bong Joon Ho's PARASITE: The Film of the Year (So Far)
Bong Joon Ho’s PARASITE: The Film Of The Year (So Far)

While it’s true that film as a medium is intrinsically subjective, it seems pretty clear amongst viewers with knowledge of film that Parasite will go down as a classic.

THE POLITICIAN Season 1: A Humourless Political Satire
THE POLITICIAN Season 1: A Humourless Political Satire

Ryan Murphy’s first Netflix venture is a vapid political satire almost entirely void of humour and heart.

GROUPERS: An Unconventional Experiment
GROUPERS: An Unconventional Experiment

Groupers isn’t perfect, and it certainly isn’t a mainstream product for the masses, but it has its merits.

Staff Inquiry: Eternally Watchable Movies

Some movies can be watched over and over, never falling out of favor and always delivering exactly what we need. Here are our staff picks.

Fantastic Fest 2019: DOLEMITE IS MY NAME
Fantastic Fest 2019: DOLEMITE IS MY NAME

Eddie Murphy is at his absolute best in Dolemite Is My Name. The humor and chops for drama that he brings to the role are a perfect c*cktail that you just can’t help but drink up.

Fantastic Fest 2019: WRINKLES THE CLOWN

What did people think he was doing? What did the legends say? Wrinkles the Clown is both a hilarious and terrifying documentary that tries to answer these questions.

The Reemergence of Charlie Chaplin Through Cosmo Kramer
The Reemergence Of Charlie Chaplin Through Cosmo Kramer

Just like Charlie Chaplin, Cosmo Kramer is seeing another kind of creature, one created through the absurd, interacting with the world, and seeing the out-of-control, spiralling outcomes.

Fantastic Fest 2019: Takashi Miike Gets The Job Done In FIRST LOVE
Fantastic Fest 2019: Takashi Miike Gets The Job Done In FIRST LOVE

First Love mixes and matches generic elements freely and playfully, making it impossible to pin down into one category.

3 DAYS WITH DAD: One Day Too Many
3 DAYS WITH DAD: One Day Too Many

3 Days With Dad does not deliver to the audience what it promises, presenting an exercise in patience that goes one day to long.

Queerly Ever After #9: THE LOVE PATIENT (2011)
Queerly Ever After #9: THE LOVE PATIENT (2011)

Sometimes, a movie is so bad it’s just bad, such is the case with 2011’s The Love Patient, a movie so offensively, irredeemably bad it’s hard to sit through.

Fantastic Fest 2019: VHYES & The Magical Horror Of Television
Fantastic Fest 2019: VHYES & The Magical Horror Of Television

VHYES tells a poignant story about the odd agency a child can find in television, and the combination of joy and horror that, almost always, follows.