Category Archives: comedy

A Reason To Be Thankful: The Muppets Are Back.

Posted on November 23, 2011 by jlmicek

Oh Yeah. I’ll be so taking my wife and daughter to see this over the holiday weekend.

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Film Bits: More Movie Writing From Around WordPress.

Posted on November 23, 2011 by jlmicek

A periodic Cineaste’s Lament feature returns today after a long absence. Here’s a quick survey of some of the other movie writing around the WordPressosphere. The Movieblog8 runs down the list of Top 10 movies they’re embarrassed they haven’t seen. … Continue reading →

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Reel History: Is Ed Wood A Cardboard Cut-Out?

Posted on November 17, 2011 by jlmicek

That’s the question that Guardian film writer Alex von Tunzelmann proposes this morning in a reevaluation of the 1994 biopic of the famed schlock director starring Johnny Depp, Martin Landau and others. I’ve made no secret of my affection of … Continue reading →

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The Muppets Go Twilight.

Posted on November 16, 2011 by jlmicek

One Of The Best Parts … … of the marketing campaign for this month’s “Muppets” movie is the knowing and very snarky marketing campaign that Disney has launched to support the film. In trailers and posters, Kermit and pals have … Continue reading →

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“The Princess Bride” Two Decades On.

Posted on November 9, 2011 by jlmicek

Unbelievably, Rob Reiner’s “The Princess Bride” is now old enough to have entertained at least three generations of filmgoers. Writing in The Guardian this morning, critic Jonathan Haynes explains why the cinematic adventure of Wesley, Princess Buttercup and the inimitable … Continue reading →

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The 10 Greatest Silent Movie Stars.

Posted on November 6, 2011 by jlmicek

Greta Garbo. Max Linder. Charlie Chaplin. They were as totemic in their time as Bogart, Gary Cooper and Katherine Hepburn would be to theirs. And a century after some of them took their first bows on screen, the names of … Continue reading →

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“Beautiful Girls,” Reconsidered.

Posted on November 3, 2011 by jlmicek

Writing In The Guardian This Morning … … film critic Michael Hann takes a second look at director Ted Demme’s ensemble drama that gave the world, among other things, ironic singings of “Sweet Caroline,” by Neil Diamond and Natalie Portman. … Continue reading →

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Weekend Box Office And One To Read.

Posted on October 31, 2011 by jlmicek

OK.  So now we know. When they’re stuck in a gigantic blizzard, moviegoers prefer the adventures of an animated cat to those of a drunken and dissolute writer. The “Shrek” spin-off “Puss in Boots” ruled the box office roost this … Continue reading →

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Six Reasons To Love Motion Capture

Posted on October 22, 2011 by jlmicek

With the release of “The Adventures of Tintin” upon us, The Guardian makes the case for why you should love motion-capture cinema. Here’s one reason: “Eerie Resemblance Characters should look a bit – but not quite – like those playing … Continue reading →

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Critic: Whatever Happened To Kevin Smith?

Posted on October 19, 2011 by jlmicek

Writing in Salon, film critic Andrew O’Hehir asks a question I’ve been asking myself for a while now: What’s become of “Clerks” Kevin Smith? Smith was the first director of my generation to really make a smash, and, with “Clerks” … Continue reading →

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