Tag: Comedy

Movie Review: The Dish and the Spoon

“The Dish and the Spoon” on IMDB

Comedy,  90 Minutes, 2011

I’m talking now to all the ladies in the audience.  You know how it is when you’re husband cheats on you with a yoga instructor from your home town and then you drive all night with no money to find her and kill her?  But then you decide to take a six-pack up to the beach tower and find a british kid up there?  So you take him to your parent’s beach house, steal from him, dress him in drag, show him your funeral plot and let him touch your boob?  You all know how that goes, right ladies?

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Movie Review: Pete Smalls is Dead

“Pete Smalls is Dead” on IMDB

Comedy, 95 Minutes, 2010

In a good way this reminded me a lot of “The Big Lebowski” [IMDB].  Not in story but in sensibility and pacing.  It’s not as good – Lebowski is an acknowledged classic from master filmmakers after all – but fans of it should like this.  A subdued kind of depressiveness permeates the entire thing but is offset by moments of deep optimism and emotion.

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