I chuckled with several of these clips.I didn't realize how anarchic McKay's comedy was, mainly because it's contained within that traditional dramatic structure that is mentioned in the essay, but brilliantly subverted. But what I really dig about those comedies is that they really do capture the 2000's and the Bush…

Mackenzie Davis is a very interesting actress, one of my favorites of this generation. The first movie of hers I watched was an indie crime movie set in Texas, "Bad Turn Worse" (The original, and better IMO, title was "We Gotta Get Out of This Place") It could've been better overall but she's great in it.

"The Monk" is a must. The most deranged, feverish, operatic novel I've read.

Season 2 suffered from something a lot of great "100 jokes an hour" comedies suffer from, and that is that it got so dense and wacky that it affected pacing, tone and character. There were still a bunch of great episodes and some fun moments during not-so good ones, but Season 1 was definitely better. Less jokes per…

Damn it…this is awful. He is the best possible Curly Bill…I loved his performance, one of the best in a film chock-full of them. What a scary, yet awesome ham he played there. I wanted to see more of his work, and "Deadwood" was a satisfying, wonderful showcase of his unused skills. He is great as the sanest man in…

Hey, muchas gracias por tus palabras, paisano. Como sabía que ya se iba a estrenar la película estuve esperando la crítica aqui para hacer un comentario que le diera un poco de contexto a Derbez. Siempre siento la necesidad de darle la misma profundidad a la cultura popular mexicana, tal como lo hacen con la…

All the Mexicans and Mexican-Americans I know always look at this date with dreariness when people in the USA are concerned. Huckabee managed to concentrate everything everyone hates about Cinco de Mayo "celebrations" and weaponized into a lousy, racist joke (like somebody else said, if the mention of Speedy Gonzales…

I really want to see "Wakefield". The trailer is one of the best I've seen and the idea of it strikes me as both cruel and poignant, so I want to see how it goes.

I do concede that Vera Cruz has its moments…I think my expectations were higher, but it's a fun B-Western with A-list cast (and it's a kick seeing very young Bronson and early Borgnine and Elam)

"Kiss Me Deadly" is on my list of "Important Films That Are Universally Acclaimed" that I consider to be…bad. I couldn't wait for it to be over. It is a confusing mess, but on top of that is dull and unengaging in a manner unbecoming a Mickey Spillane work…or hardboiled fiction in general. I watched "Vera Cruz" before…

"Seasons in the Sun" is one of my favorite one-hit wonders. So sad, yet so pretty and catchy.

Oh man, "D.O.A." A really cool high school friend gave me a mix CD of very eclectiv 60-70's Rock songs and D.O.A. was the one I consistently skipped…not becuase it's bad, but because everything about it's so unnerving I couldn't stand it. But I periodcally listened to it once every six months or something…there aren't…

I'm surprised it took them this long…since I was kid, I heard about the hotel being the one the song was based on, but the thing is that they say the story happened more or less as described in the song (the ghostly woman part, not the "imprisoned forever by ambigous satanic beast worshippers"), rather than the more…

I'm surprised it's taken this long. I was looking forward to it (Monty Python+Robin Williams+Simon Pegg= No brainer, right?). Saw it a few months ago…if you were looking forward to seeing it in theaters, I can assure you it wasn't worth the wait.

Yes, that's the one, "La Familia P.Luche" ("The P. Lush Family"). The original sketches showed focused on the married couple, who hate each other (the wife is a superficial, angry, domineering woman; the man is clumsy, macho wannabe whose stupidity always works against him). They got into real brutal sparring matches…

I'm interested in seeing how Derbez manages this "crossover" phase of his career. He's unfamiliar to Anglo-American audiences, but he completely ruled the comedy landscape in Mexico all through the 90's and most of the 2000's. He is the closest thing we had to an alternative-comedian, since the three shows he had are…

I read the second one, "Enemy of God", because I checked it out from the library a long time ago. I read bits and pieces of the other two books when I found them at bookstores or at Amazon. My personal preference is reading the "mythic history" books (like Mallory or Thomas Berger's "Arthur Rex", which is terrific).…

'Why don't you just try acting?'- Nigel Terry, probably (RIP)

I'm an Arthurian geek of the highest order. I enjoy reading/watching every variation of the tale, although I think the best straightforward films about the matter are "Excalibur" and "Lancelot du Lac", and they are very hard to top (the fact that they are on the opposite sides of the "over the top/subdued" spectrum…

You're right. Changed it. Gender and genre have the exact word in Spanish and I guess my brain didn't detect it.