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Unexpected Comedy
Oct. 3, 2012
Late Night Court: The Lyrical Comedy of Justice J. Michael Eakin If Law & Order has taught us anything, it’s that comedy has no place in law and order (Although as Community, John Mulaney, and countless […]
By Justin Geldzahler
Sept. 19, 2012
Random, Horny, and Hilarious: The Soundtrack of ‘Grease 2’ Based on the hit Broadway musical of the same name, Grease was released in 1978. It went on to be the highest grossing film in a year that gave […]
By Justin Geldzahler
Sept. 5, 2012
Is ‘The Newsroom’ Really Just an Unfunny Remake of ‘NewsRadio’? At its heart, HBO’s The Newsroom has been a sitcom. Sure, it might be an hour-long and take itself really, really seriously, but consider the […]
By Justin Geldzahler
Aug. 24, 2012
‘Jackie Brown’ and Why Quentin Tarantino Should Make a Sitcom Quentin Tarantino makes comedies. His films may belong to a variety of genres (mafia, war, blaxploitation, to name a few), but no matter the […]
By Justin Geldzahler
Aug. 1, 2012
‘Total Recall’ and Schwarzenegger’s Self-Parody The Total Recall remake (which I can’t stop from calling Total Remake) might seem unnecessary, but it does have one key difference: Colin […]
By Justin Geldzahler
July 20, 2012
Following Brando’s Comedic Instincts in ‘The Godfather’ The Godfather is the best film ever made. I might not personally ascribe to this belief, but The Godfather is also a film that can easily be […]
By Justin Geldzahler
June 28, 2012
The Golly Gee-Whiz Spectacle of the Wachowskis’ ‘Speed Racer’ Go Speed Racer
Go Speed Racer
Go Speed Racer, Go!
– Theme song from Speed Racer
Few properties are as aggressively single-minded as Speed […]
By Justin Geldzahler
June 20, 2012
‘Marmaduke, no!": Mocking the Not-so-Great Dane Since 1954, Brad Anderson’s single panel comic Marmaduke has graced newspapers across the country with the misadventures of the Winslow […]
By Justin Geldzahler
June 6, 2012
The Sexual, Conspiratorial Farce of ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ Fun fact: Steve Martin was supposed to star in Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut. (Yes, that Steve Martin.)
In his biography Kubrick, Michael […]
By Justin Geldzahler
May 31, 2012
We Laugh So We Don’t Cry: The Humor in Holocaust Films The Holocaust is no laughing matter. Not only an immense and terrible tragedy, the Holocaust is also an extremely well-recorded tragedy. Many […]
By Justin Geldzahler
May 17, 2012
The Silly, If Delusional, Charm of the Beach Party Genre The beach party genre began in 1963 with the release of Beach Party by American International Pictures (the irony of the name presumably lost […]
By Justin Geldzahler
May 9, 2012
Fighting for Nature: The Stilted Sincerity of Mark Trail Newspaper comics are a funny thing. Like television, the medium requires a constant output of new material. But due to any given comic strip’s […]
By Justin Geldzahler
May 2, 2012
David Lynch Takes Hollywood’s Lunch in ‘Mulholland Dr.’ Mulholland Dr. is a strange movie.
I realize that’s a massive understatement, especially considering that noted oddball David Lynch wrote and […]
By Justin Geldzahler
Apr. 26, 2012
Mrs. Peniston and the Hilarious Vulgarity in Edith Wharton’s House of Mirth When reading respected literature from the Western canon, it can be difficult to process humor found within a thick tome. Sometimes it’s too […]
By Justin Geldzahler
Apr. 19, 2012
Justifying the Comedy of Justified Justified recently finished its third season, which has been as wild and crime-ridden as any other. This year has seen murderers, kidney […]
By Justin Geldzahler