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CRASHING – Pete Holmes and Jamie Lee Interview

January 19, 2018 By Leave a Comment

CRASHING – Pete Holmes and Jamie Lee Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. Pete Holmes and Jamie Lee were in the middle of their media blitz for the second season of their HBO series, CRASHING, when we met for a chat on January 17, 2018. The grind of the road did nothing to dampen their either exuberance or their whip-smart humor.… Read More »

Tagged With: Artie Lange, Bill Burr, comedy, divorce, emotional truth, factual truth, Judah Miller, Judd Apatow, Pascal’s Wager, Penn Gillette, Sarah Silverman, stand-up, TJ Miller, Trump, watermelon, women and comedy, yard sale

ALL NIGHTER — Gavin Wiesen Interview

March 24, 2017 By Leave a Comment

ALL NIGHTER — Gavin Wiesen Interview

I spoke with Gary Wiesen by phone on March 24, 2017, the day his film, ALL NIGHTER, opened in San Francisco. It’s his first comedy, but briskly executed with a true feel for not just the humor, but also the underlying pathos of a father seeking out his estranged daughter with the help of her… Read More »

Tagged With: Alec Puro, Annaleigh Tipton, banjo, bluegrass, Bob Seeger, club scene, collaboration, comedy, film score, Gavin Wiesen, hipster, Los Angeles, midlife crisis, missing daughter, nightlife, odd couple, Reece Miller, sound mix

THERAPY FOR A VAMPIRE ( Der Vampir auf der Couch)

June 11, 2016 By Leave a Comment

THERAPY FOR A VAMPIRE ( Der Vampir auf der Couch)

THERAPY FOR A VAMPIRE is a droll and loving homage to those classic Universal horror films from the 1930s. This is not pastiche, though. The gothic castle awash in spectral moonlight vies with a dash of Hitchcock’s VERTIGO, and a feminist attitude that is the perfect foil for the king of Penis Envy himself, Sigmund… Read More »

Tagged With: 1930s Vienna, comedy, homage.vampire, psychoanalysis, reincarnation, romance, Sigmund Freud, socophobia, spoof, supernatural, undead

Rebecca Miller Explains MAGGIE’S PLAN

June 2, 2016 By Leave a Comment

Rebecca Miller Explains MAGGIE’S PLAN

I love how Rebecca Miller’s mind works. With the eponymous Maggie of her film, MAGGIE’S PLAN, she has brought to life a character who manipulates other for their own good, and still seems like the great-hearted soul. And she’s made it a wickedly smart comedy. Perhaps it was only Greta Gerwig who could have pulled… Read More »

Tagged With: affair, comedy, divorce, etsy culture, Gary Winick, hysteria, idiosyncratic accents, Karen Rinaldi, knitting as feminism, motherhood, pickle-maker, pregnancy, Rebecca Miller, stitch and bitch, topknot

Will Durst, Johnny Steele, and Larry “Bubbles” Brown are 3 STILL STANDING

October 13, 2015 By 2 Comments

Will Durst, Johnny Steele, and Larry “Bubbles” Brown are 3 STILL STANDING

I have been a fan of all three of the gentlemen still standing since I first came to San Francisco a long, long time ago. And so it was no surprise to me that my interview with them on September 28, 2015 for the doc in which they star, 3 STILL STANDING, would be smart… Read More »

Tagged With: Becky Spencer, comedy, Dana Carvey, Dave Feldman, documentary, fault lines, Holy City Zoo, hooker jokes, jelly butter, Johnny Steele, Larry “Bubbles” Brown, plane crash, Red Bluff, Robin Williams, rock-a-billy, Round Up Saloon, sound of impact, stand-up, Will Durst

PIXELS System Crash

July 26, 2015 By Leave a Comment

PIXELS System Crash

If I had to single one thing out as being the saddest moment in PIXELS, it would have to be when Michelle Monaghan, as a newly dumped wife is forced to find solace from Adam Sandler as she is weeping and drinking chardonnay from a sippy cup on the floor of her closet.

Tagged With: Adam Sandler, alien invasion, arcade games, Centipede, Chris Columbus, comedy, Donkey Kong, narrative, Pac-Man, Patrick Jean, rip-off, special effects

Amy Schumer is No TRAINWRECK

July 21, 2015 By 2 Comments

Amy Schumer is No TRAINWRECK

Turning gender roles neatly on their heads, Amy Schumer has created a screwball comedy of considerable substance. Taking sure aim at the abomination of the formula rom-com, she satirizes not just the genre, but the state of contemporary single-hood. Starring in a script of her own devising, she is fearless, relentless, and completely unapologetic as the titular hot mess, also named Amy, with commitment issues and a healthy libido.

Tagged With: Amy Schumer, comedy, debauchery, father-daughter relationship, homelessness, narrative, rom-com, satire, sister relationship, social commentary

A MINIONS of Diminishing Returns

July 12, 2015 By 1 Comment

A MINIONS of Diminishing Returns

It must have seemed like such a good idea.  Take the loveable little yellow minions from DESPICABLE ME and star them in their own movie.  Certainly the eponymous MINIONS features much of what made them so irresistible. There’s that burbling mélange of human and Minion-esque language. The ebullient nature, the eagerness to please, and that… Read More »

Tagged With: animation, comedy, DESPICABLE ME, Jon Hamm, kids, London, MINIONS, narrative, New York Orlando, prequel, Sandra Bullock, super villain

SPY

June 5, 2015 By 2 Comments

SPY

When I reviewed BRIDESMAIDS, I spent a great deal of my verbiage on Melissa McCarthy’s supporting performance. Rarely had I seen an actress, or actor for that matter, so fearless, so sure of him- or herself, and with such a preternatural gift for discovering humor in the most unexpected places. She was nominated for an… Read More »

Tagged With: comedy, espionage, Jason Statham, Jude Law, melissa mccarthy, Paul Feig, Rose Byrne, spoof

A Cold Reception for HOT PURSUIT

May 7, 2015 By Leave a Comment

A Cold Reception for HOT PURSUIT

If anyone could have saved HOT PURSUIT, it would have been Reese Witherspoon and Sofia Vergara. Aside from having scads of talent and audience appeal, they both have a keen understanding of their strengths as performers, yet they never quite cross the line into becoming caricatures of themselves.  Here, the co-stars and co-producers have found… Read More »

Tagged With: comedy, HOT PURSUIT, movie, Razzie contender, Reese Witherspoon, Sofia Vergara

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