While RED 2 may be your common, garden variety sequel, it is mostly just the blackest of comedies built upon the intractable foundation of a perfect farce, where interpersonal relationships really do matter.
Published: Tuesday, February 15th, 2022 @ 8:05 pm
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
|
"Burn After Reading," the latest edition in Ethan and Joel Coen's offbeat and often distinctive films: some comedies, some dramas, some from another world of intellect, was exactly what I expected - overwhelmingly eclectic.
Published: Thursday, February 10th, 2022 @ 2:11 am
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
|
"Goodbye My Sweetheart, Hello Vietnam" This refrain from Dave Dudley's country ditty, an integral melody in the soundtrack of the classic "Full Metal Jacket" regarding a more patriotic approach to the Vietnam predicament.
Published: Friday, January 21st, 2022 @ 7:58 pm
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
|
Upcoming events from Arts of the Pamlico
Published: Friday, March 18th, 2016 @ 4:39 pm
By: Christopher Maye
|
What began as a feel-good suicide 'Indie' film, with strident overtones of highly dysfunctional sexuality all around, quickly devolved into a poorly written Saturday Night Live sketch that struggled on far too long.
Published: Sunday, January 18th, 2015 @ 10:14 pm
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
|
Well, the testosterone-challenged crowd in the McClatchy newsrooms have claimed the scalp of a poor, defenseless woman who made the horrific "mistake" of allowing Gov, Pat to appoint her poet laureate.
Published: Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014 @ 7:20 pm
By: Brant Clifton
|
Some folks like their coffee blonde and sweet, but their comedy black. If you are one of that rare breed, you will probably get quite a few belly laughs from the directorial sophomore effort of Bobcat Goldthwaite: "World's Greatest Dad."
Published: Tuesday, April 10th, 2012 @ 12:23 am
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
|
Recently, I reviewed "The Beaver," which was a purely dark comedy regarding the debilitating effects of chronic depression, resulting in severe schizophrenia. "It's Kind of a Funny of Story," which dealt with institutionalized mental health patients, was much lighter fare.
Published: Thursday, November 24th, 2011 @ 10:16 am
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
|
This film, by Actress Jodie Foster who also directed, was produced during the time when Actor Gibson was having his last round of domestic skirmishes in his own home, and public opinion for the celebrated actor was at an all time low.
Published: Saturday, November 19th, 2011 @ 11:50 am
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
|
What could be cast about as a "slasher movie" meets mindless college coeds one drunken weekend in the high hills of West Virginia is, actually, just one well written, well-paced dark comedy that is more funny than grotesque, and let's be clear about this: The film is maddeningly grotesque.
Published: Saturday, October 1st, 2011 @ 1:43 pm
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
|
Let me begin by expressing: I love Liberals, and not just the Christian love of our kind, which stipulates that we should summarily love our fellow man, but real, respectful, abiding love that occasionally intones: Thank-you for all that you do.
Published: Sunday, July 24th, 2011 @ 12:45 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
|