All posts tagged "Comedy"
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Cate Marquis | April 29, 2022
THE DUKE – Review
In this delightful, true story-based, quirky comic tale, Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren costar as a bickering couple...
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Jim Batts | April 21, 2022
THE BAD GUYS (2022) – Review
As Spring slowly arrives (really, April snow), the multiplex makes way for a new family-friendly animated feature film...
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Cate Marquis | April 8, 2022
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE – Review
Michelle Yeoh gives a tour-de-force performance in the wildly creative EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE, as a weary...
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Cate Marquis | April 1, 2022
CODA – Review
CODA is writer/director Sian Heder’s charming coming of age comedy/drama about the daughter of a family of scrappy,...
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Mark Glass | March 30, 2022
“Inventions That Changed History” – TV Series Review
Despite the aura of gravitas implied by its title, “Inventions That Changed History” is a six-part documentary series...
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Jim Batts | March 23, 2022
THE LOST CITY (2022) – Review
Hey film fans, since traveling is still a bit iffy (some health issues) and pricey (oy, the pump...
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Cate Marquis | March 12, 2022
GREENER PASTURES – SLJFF Review
In the delightfully funny Israeli comedy GREENER PASTURES, a retiree named Dov (Shlomo Bar-Aba) feels like he has...
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Jim Batts | February 3, 2022
JACKASS FOREVER – Review
Hmmm, is 2022 turning out to be a twenty-year anniversary celebration for several beloved film franchises? Could be....
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Jim Batts | January 13, 2022
HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA: TRANSFORMANIA – Review
So, we’re barely two weeks into the new year and you’re ready for a quick getaway? Well, we’ve...
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Cate Marquis | December 25, 2021
RED ROCKET – Review
A shabby man (Simon Rex) stumbles off a bus and heads for a modest house in a little...
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Cate Marquis | December 22, 2021
THE TENDER BAR – Review
Every family has some quirkiness but this one more than most, with Ben Affleck as a bartender uncle...
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Cate Marquis | December 11, 2021
THE REAL CHARLIE CHAPLIN – Review
Charlie Chaplin was the first worldwide superstar, thanks in part to the global nature of silent movies, which...
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Cate Marquis | December 10, 2021
DON’T LOOK UP – Review
What if the world did not respond the way it always does in every disaster movie to an...
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Jim Batts | November 18, 2021
GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE – Review
What at first seems to be a nostalgic multiplex return trip to a much-beloved flick from decades ago,...
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Cate Marquis | November 12, 2021
BELFAST – Review
Kenneth Branagh gives us one of his best films, and his most personal, with BELFAST, a partly autobiographical...
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Jim Batts | November 11, 2021
HOME SWEET HOME ALONE – Review
Time for yet another merry “movie mash-up”, with a big accent on the first “m”, The studios love...
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Jim Batts | October 29, 2021
THE FRENCH DISPATCH – Review
After heading off to distant worlds in DUNE (transported via the “cinema starship”), how about a visit to...
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Tom Stockman | October 5, 2021
It’s Showtime! BEETLEJUICE Screening at The Wildey Theater in Edwardsville October 12th
“Let’s turn on the juice and see what shakes loose!” Nothing’s more fun than The Wildey’s Tuesday Night...