Comedy Archive

  • If this movie let me down at all, it was that there simply weren’t enough misadventures detailed, though even the filmmakers would acknowledge this and immediately respond to American’s insatiable...0March 17, 2010

    The Misadventures of Merlin Jones (1964)

    If this movie let me down at all, it was that there simply weren’t enough misadventures detailed, though even the filmmakers would acknowledge this and immediately respond to American’s insatiable…

  • This is one of the gimpier offerings from William Powell and Myrna Loy, a pair known for their sophisticated brand of comedy that triumphed in such fare as The Thin...0February 10, 2010

    Double Wedding (1937)

    This is one of the gimpier offerings from William Powell and Myrna Loy, a pair known for their sophisticated brand of comedy that triumphed in such fare as The Thin…

  • This a fun movie with four of Hollywood’s great talents firing on all cylinders. Spencer Tracy plays newspaper editor Walter Haggerty. He’s a fast talking, muckraking kind of guy who...0February 9, 2010

    Libeled Lady (1936)

    This a fun movie with four of Hollywood’s great talents firing on all cylinders. Spencer Tracy plays newspaper editor Walter Haggerty. He’s a fast talking, muckraking kind of guy who…

  • You can have Dr. Seuss’s If I Ran the Zoo with its totally made up monsters, exotic lands, and that praise-craving brat Gerald McGrew. If I ran a freaking zoo,...2January 29, 2010

    Wacky Zoo of Morgan City (1970)

    You can have Dr. Seuss’s If I Ran the Zoo with its totally made up monsters, exotic lands, and that praise-craving brat Gerald McGrew. If I ran a freaking zoo,…

  • The first words on the screen were “Presented by R.I. Diculous.” A few more of these “wacky” credits followed confirming my suspicions that I was in for one of those...0December 3, 2009

    Invasion of the Star Creatures (1963)

    The first words on the screen were “Presented by R.I. Diculous.” A few more of these “wacky” credits followed confirming my suspicions that I was in for one of those…

  • Cary Grant is coasting on the type of auto-pilot that only a guy who’s been in more classics than any other actor could, while Ingrid Bergman vainly attempts to get...0November 24, 2009

    Indiscreet (1958)

    Cary Grant is coasting on the type of auto-pilot that only a guy who’s been in more classics than any other actor could, while Ingrid Bergman vainly attempts to get…

  • Time was, this country was one great big expansive opportunity to do whatever a person wanted to. There weren’t any rules and quotas set up by feminists, liberals, and activist...0November 7, 2009

    Rascal (1969)

    Time was, this country was one great big expansive opportunity to do whatever a person wanted to. There weren’t any rules and quotas set up by feminists, liberals, and activist…

  • Things begin a bit ominously with the appearance of a narrator whose chief distinguishing characteristic is his horrendously bad old-guy make up. Not to be outdone by his make-up, the...0October 10, 2009

    The Head Mistress (1968)

    Things begin a bit ominously with the appearance of a narrator whose chief distinguishing characteristic is his horrendously bad old-guy make up. Not to be outdone by his make-up, the…

  • Would it be a really lazy gimmick if I tried to be funny by appropriating the overbaked hipster slang the hot rodding kids used in this film and declared it...0August 21, 2009

    Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow (1959)

    Would it be a really lazy gimmick if I tried to be funny by appropriating the overbaked hipster slang the hot rodding kids used in this film and declared it…

  • A lazy way to start this review would be to ape the writing of the children’s book series that this movie takes its title from. You know what I’m talking...0August 20, 2009

    Fun with Dick and Jane (1977)

    A lazy way to start this review would be to ape the writing of the children’s book series that this movie takes its title from. You know what I’m talking…

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