Tag Archives: Comedy

Harold Ramis’s Groundhog Day

Posted on 3rd February 2022 by Diverse Voices

Kimberlee Sweeney Rettberg wrote this review. Bill Murray is good at playing jerks. This time, however, he gets to play a jerk with a future – a jerk who, for whatever reasons, is allowed to relive the same day over … Continue reading →

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Drew Friedman’s Old Jewish Comedians

Posted on 13th January 2022 by David Kidney

“Take this book … (wait for it) … please!” I paraphrase Henny Youngman just because to appreciate this new volume of paintings, some understanding of who the men (and it’s all men) in these portraits are (or were). As the … Continue reading →

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Jonathan Levine’s Warm Bodies

Posted on 27th October 2020 by Robert

“Captain, the corpses are fighting the skeletons!” I saw the trailer for Warm Bodies when I had gone to see something else, and thought “Cute, but probably not something I’ll want to see.” Well, I was looking to kill a … Continue reading →

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Spray/Visual Arts, You Higuri and Yukina Hiro, Gakuen Heaven: Boy’s Love Hyper

Posted on 7th July 2016 by Robert

Gakuen Heaven started off as a computer game called Gakuen Heaven Boy’s Love Scramble. The franchise also includes three PlayStation 2 games, drama CDs, a manga series, and this anime. It’s a delightful bit of BL fluff, and everyone I … Continue reading →

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)

Posted on 14th June 2016 by Robert

I love Mozart. His music is one of the things I’d insist on if I were going to be stranded on a desert island. Otherwise, I’d just refuse to be stranded. Among my favorite works by Mozart is The Magic … Continue reading →

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John Cameron Mitchell: Shortbus

Posted on 23rd May 2016 by Robert

Shortbus is one of those films that comes apart if you try to look at it element by element. There’s not much of a plot, which we should all be used to by now. The characterizations are not startling for … Continue reading →

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