Category: Comedy
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The Wrecking Crew Review: Half Brothers Gonna Work It Out
THE WRECKING CREW (2026) This is more like it. After years and years we’ve finally come full circle and are back to enjoying and appreciating a new iteration of the classic old stock crude humour and wacky violence that is the buddy comedy, while getting our hearts warmed along the way. Not a whiff of…
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The Threesome Review: Oh so sexy, until it’s not
The Threesome (2025) Oh the threesome. Who hasn’t thought this could be among the highlights of one’s youthful (or not so youthful) sexual misadventures. And what fun it is to watch a trio of consenting adults dip their toes into orgy waters. And the title deed was not unsatisfying. The participants, Olivia, Connor and Jenny…
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Top Five Worst Films of 2025
These lists are bullshit. Movies, film, art, blockbusters…they are designed to entertain us in exchange for money. It’s a system and that’s okay, as it’s what we got and it works for now. The good ones make us feel; feel excited, annoyed, joy, and away from our lives for a short while as we experience…
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The Running Man Review: Powell’s a pleb in a Carhartt jacket
The Running Man (2025) Oh the irony. We the people are once again being manipulated, via our collective nostalgia, memberberries, whatever you want to call it, into watching a movie about big corp manipulating us. Sigh. Let’s face it, they called this movie The Running Man for a reason. That reason being we remember. We…
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Bugonia review: Stone is busy as a bee
BUGONIA (2025) We all want to believe. Don’t we? Someone or something must be in charge of all of this, this chaos is ordered somehow, and we all receive our just desserts eventually; or are the winners on this planet simply taking the rest of us for fools as they manipulate our minds and souls…
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Good Fortune Review: Be excellent to each other
GOOD FORTUNE (2025) I got chills. Sincerely. Seeing Keanu Reeves’ angel wings and stoic visage at the very start of Good Fortune gave me a very specific kind of happiness. The kind of happiness that only happens when you know you’re about to watch a good movie; not a film per se, but simply some…
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The Roses Review: A C*ck and a C*nt
THE ROSES (2025) Love and hate are flip sides of the same coin they say. The “they” being married people. Marriage is an inspiring idea, and when it works, which it very much does for Ivy and Theo (Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch) and their two adorable children, it’s balanced by laughter, reciprocity and mutual…
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Materialists Review: A 24-carat mistake
MATERIALISTS (2025) Is it just me, or did Dakota Johnson look to have lost her way there for a while? Not that I’ve paid very close attention, as I’ll admit I am not a huge fan; not because I don’t think she’s a capable actress, in fact she’s very capable. I thought her casting in…
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Nobody 2 Review: Nobody’s perfect
NOBODY 2 (2025) Every so often, one needs to get away; away from the day-to-day of life and work and the familiar. A well-timed escape has the potential to be a reset, a promise of peace and/or adventure. Assassin/family man Hutch Mansel (Bob Odenkirk) is no different as he yearns for a break from his…
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Riff Raff Review: Less riffing more raff
RIFF RAFF (2025) Truth be told, I didn’t have high hopes for director Dito Montiel’s – A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006), Man Down (2015) – latest offering Riff Raff, but the cast was intriguing. I mean, Bill Murray as a shady underworld crime boss accompanied by the preternaturally creepy/depressive Pete Davidson has a…
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The Monkey Review: Opposable thumbs down
THE MONKEY (2025) Director, writer and actor Osgood Perkins – Longlegs (2024), The Blackcoat’s Daughter (2015) – adapts the Stephen King short story The Monkey (1980) into a horror comedy? This should work right? Well the concept worked well enough to entice me to watch it. Unfortunately, killing off numerous undeveloped characters indiscriminately, Final Destination (2000-)…
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Borderline Review: B for effort
BORDELINE (2025) After penning the tight and hilarious Cocaine Bear (2023), Jimmy Warden makes his directorial debut with Borderline, starring his very watchable wife Samara Weaving – Azreal (2024), Ready or Not (2019) The Babysitter (2017) – as a fictionalized ’90s Madonna, basically enduring an extremely exaggerated version of an actual event. On April 7th…
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The Parenting Review: Motherfockers, it’s not bad
THE PARENTING (2025) I went into The Parenting with low expectations. I thought it to be a Gen-Z horror-comedy with an aim to skewer boomers by way of the recognizable cast (Brian Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Edie Falco, Dean Norris, Parker Posey), with not one among them that immediately “screams” hilarity. And so my hopes were…
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The Electric State Review: Relax, it’s not Waterworld
THE ELECTRIC STATE (2025) So the reviews are in for the Russo Brothers’ new big budget Netflix blockbuster and thus far, they are not great. It’s a 320 million dollar cautionary tale about the potential pitfalls and dangers of technology, staring two safe bets, as in the perpetually wise-cracking Chris Pratt and a generationally beloved…
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Heart Eyes review: My heart will go on
HEART EYES (2025) I like this movie. But I don’t like like it, if you know what I mean. I like that it’s a romantic-comedy-horror. A great idea that pleases both the blood thirsty romantic cynics and horror hopefuls. I like how the gender roles are swapped, with a female protagonist (Olivia Holt) who is…
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Fight or Flight Review: Bullet Plane
FIGHT OR FLIGHT (2025) Fight or Flight is a straight ahead action comedy, or for those of you who (like me) indulge in these types of films whenever I can, it’s basically John Wick (2014) on a Bullet Train (2022), save for the fact that its lead Josh Hartnett brings extra charisma, all the while…
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Old Guy Review: He’s NOT too old for this shit
OLD GUY (2025) One problem with Old Guy (besides its clunky editing) is that from just hearing the title and knowing it was about a hitman (and what film isn’t about hitmen/women these days), I surmised (just about) the entire film. To be fair, had it been titled Old Man, it would have conjured up…
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Back in Action Review: Spies not like us
BACK IN ACTION (2024) Thinking back, I didn’t watch Back in Action hoping or expecting to see perfection. What I wanted was a fun romp with our trusty Cameron Diaz and Jamie Fox to lighten up my day with some laughs and a little heart if it had the time. And the premise was promising.…
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Get Away Review: Not a bad trip
GET AWAY (2024) Like many of you (I’m sure), I was immediately in when I saw Nick Frost’s name attached (as co-writer and lead) to another comedy horror film. If you’re like me, you only want more from a purveyor of Shaun of the Dead (2004) and Hot Fuzz (2007). My only question, unfortunately being:…
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Nightbitch Review: Bitch, please!
NIGHTBITCH (2024) In tandem with the obligatory sex education videos that outline the mechanics of conception played in front us in elementary school, I recommend Nightbitch be viewed by all parties ready to yield the fruits of its base intention, as its visceral purpose is magical, transformative, brutal and, for the strongest among us, hilarious. It…
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Venom: The Last Dance Review: Get off of me
VENOM: THE LAST DANCE (2024) Way back, when I first heard that Tom Hardy was attached (hah) to a Venom film I was ready to be absorbed (heh). One of the greatest villains in the Spiderman Universe was coming to life (sorry Topher Grace your Venom didn’t do it for me) with a top tier…
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Saturday Night Review: Better than Monday Morning
SATURDAY NIGHT (2024) Newer (often younger) viewers, unfamiliar with past generations of Saturday Night Live, may be unaware of the extent of SNL’s cultural impact and reasoning for its perpetual real estate in the zeitgeist. The show (and its players) were at the forefront of comedy, being that it help push past those first boundaries…
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Brothers Review: Big Little Guys
BROTHERS (2024) Brothers is not for everyone. It’s randomly crude, the humour is broad, and if hard pressed to come up with a one word descriptor, it would be “amusing”. Not exactly a rousing review. Still, I was amused, a lot, and I appreciated the thoughtful, authentic performances from top tier players Peter Dinklage and…
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The Substance of Demi Moore: Body Art
Though not perfect (we have thoughts, see our review), Demi Moore’s newest film The Substance is a cheeky choice for the American actress. Some might say it’s courageous and daring, being that she is literally baring it all while deconstructing the plight of an aging Hollywood starlet. It’s bullseye casting. However, we argue that this…
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Review: Ensemble Ensemble
BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE (2024) First off, I must note that I am not the biggest Tim Burton fan. I like my scary to be scary and free from whimsical Danny Elfman soundtracks telling me it’s all going to be okay. As a child I actually preferred the Beetlejuice cartoon to the movie, because, well hell, each…
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Deadpool & Wolverine review: Lethal Weapon X
DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE (2024) For all intents and purposes, this is a buddy cop style comedy. Everyone is having a great time as it envelopes itself within its source material…comics, while mining decades worth of Marvel movies for its snarky odd couple core. I start by writing this so that one doesn’t go into Deadpool…
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Wolfs Movie Review: No one’s whistling
WOLFS (2024) This hurts. Great premise, two marquee dramatic/comedic masters settling into midlife, and me, hoping for two wolfs at the door. Sadly, Wolfs is a corny mess in need of a cleanup. Brad Pitt and George Clooney are thrown together to “fix” a very bad night for a hot shot Manhattan district attorney (Amy…
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5 Thanksgiving films that don’t have Thanksgiving in the title…
…and so you may missed that they are in fact Thanksgiving films Hopefully your first Thanksgiving watch was A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (1973). This list is for watching after that most wholesome introduction: PRISONERS (2013) In Denis Villeneuve’s thriller, Hugh Jackman’s character (the Bruce Spingsteen lovin’, deer huntin’, independent contractin’ Father Keller Dover) offers…
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5 Underrated Russell Crowe Films
Most of us are familiar with contenders for the top 5 best Russel Crowe movies: Gladiator (2000), L.A. Confidential (1997), A Beautiful Mind (2001), The Insider (1999), 3:10 To Yuma ( (2007), Cinderella Man (2005), American Gangster (2007), the list deservedly goes on. One of the greatest actors living today has a plethora of acclaimed…
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Incoming Movie Review: Supergood
INCOMING (2024) Yes, we’ve been here before: A first week of high school teen comedy with an intimidating older kids’ party setting, crushing crushes on the just-beyond-your-reach dream girl, nerds, etc. Every generation cries out for an awkward insecure group of freshmen to navigate drugs, girls, bullies and diarrhea to commiserate with (or at least…