Category: Comedy

Buster Busting Buster Keaton begins Battling Butler as a snobbish, affluent dolt. He’s never done anything for himself, worrying his father who questions his son’s masculinity. Kicked out of …

Devilish Shortcut Shortcut to Happiness’ inoffensive, simple morals don’t need explicitly revealed. Adam Baldwin stars as a struggling writer seeking success and fame, gets both after selling his soul …

Taking Shots at Politics Long Shot makes no attempt to restructure the mainstream romantic comedy. It uses bigger stakes – the American Presidency – and still finds a way …

Daydreaming Stunts The American dream is in Sherlock Jr.. Buster Keaton plays a projectionist with two bucks in his right pocket, and in the other, a book on becoming …

Navigational Ineptness By the end of The Navigator things go so off the rails, Buster Keaton is underwater in a diving suit, holding a swordfish, using it to fence …

Still Unequaled The only thing to hold against The General’s Civil War depiction is the South triumphantly, jubilantly winning in the end. That’s a shame. To note, The General …

Steaming Along When first introduced in Steamboat Bill, Jr., Buster Keaton is dressed in kooky clothes, sports an odd mustache, and carries a small guitar. An eccentric by late …

Michael Winterbottom’s Ode To Manchester & Factory Records If groups like Joy Division and the Happy Mondays are your thing, this cheeky trip back to that music scene is …

Finsky Under the cover of the ‘80s, Weird Science gets away with two 14-ish year old boys showering with a 30-year old woman. It’s the boy’s fantasy after all. …

Sugary Romance Even before the explosion of Jane Fonda’s workout tapes and studies on sugar consumption, Fatso found the problem with America’s obesity epidemic. It’s multi-stage. In one key …

Rhinestone Cowboy High School High was prophetic. Three years before the Columbine shooting, metal detectors go off as kids enter their school, police walk the halls, teachers don bullet …

Worker’s Constipation Janet Jackson and Luther Vandross’ “The Best Things in Life Are Free” plays over a segment of Mo’ Money. It’s an obvious selection as the movie reforms …