Category: 4K Comedy

Cleaning Up the Town Rick Moranis awkwardly stumbles through the streets as Ghostbusters’ third act begins. He’s possessed. He’s muttering nonsense. Nearby, a reggae street band plays, oblivious to …

Stars and Strikes Forever The Dude is everything an American isn’t supposed to be. He’s a hard drinker – of White Russians, of course. His employment status is unclear, …

Spying a Friendship The Spy Who Dumped Me is not that movie, the formulaic rom com where, just before the finale, the woman discovers her absentee boyfriend is an …

Brittle Satire Danny McBride is meant to play an idiot in Arizona. Set at the beginning of the recession, McBride is turned into an American consumer satire, an SUV-driving, …

Keeping It in the Family The target for Ocean’s 8 is perfect: Smug, pompous rich people gathered for the Met Gala. No one will blame a group of professional …

All Out of Love If your ethics are so distorted they end up as a plot point for the likes of Deadpool 2, it’s time to reconsider. In this …

Downspout Based solely on what he created in Downsizing, Alexander Payne must hate everything. Billed as a quirky comedy about tiny people living in a tiny world, Downsizing instead …

Fight Men Fight The best scene in Daddy’s Home 2 concerns a mishap between a wandering snowblower and endlessly strung together Christmas lights. Doltish Will Ferrell engages in some …

Crime Cruise It’s the perfect title – American Made. Often stickered onto products designating their source, the phrase also holds truth in the case of Barry Seal (Tom Cruise). …

Hit It Expect little else than mindless, profane entertainment from Hitman’s Bodyguard. It hardly offers a plot, the action barely rises above predictable, and the location scenery across Amsterdam …

Lucky Ducks Jimmy Logan isn’t lucky. That’s the joke, or “a” joke anyway. Logan Lucky has bunches of successful gags. Jimmy’s (Channing Tatum) life is filled with misfortune (also …

No Watch There’s one overlapping joke in Baywatch – the lifeguards seem unaware they’re not cops. It’s like The Munsters, where the family lives in bliss, oblivious to ther …