Reviews of comedy DVDs and Blu-ray Discs.
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Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy, A (Blu-ray Review) 31 Aug, 2015
By a presumed factor of incalculable thousands, the supporting cast of crickets, cicadas and other...More>>
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Aloha (Blu-ray Review) 14 Aug, 2015
Director Cameron Crowe's 'Aloha' is a perfectly pleasant viewing experience, it just doesn’t have...More>>
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Innerspace (Blu-ray Review) 31 Jul, 2015
Director Joe Dante’s 'Innerspace' is an entertaining sci-fi comedy in the vein of 'Ghostbusters'...More>>
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World of Henry Orient, The (Blu-ray Review) 27 Jul, 2015
Veteran screenwriter Nunnally Johnson’s adaptation of daughter Nora’s same-name 1956 novel was...More>>
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Absolute Beginners (Blu-ray Review) 29 Jun, 2015
The movie built on the emerging teen market probably bites off more late-1950s London turmoil than...More>>
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April Love (Blu-ray Review) 18 May, 2015
If late-1950s Hollywood just had to make Pat Boone vehicles, April Love was probably the way to go...More>>
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Inherent Vice (Blu-ray Review) 30 Apr, 2015
On the whole, 'Inherent Vice' offers more to like than not, resonating mostly for a scattering of...More>>
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Singles (Blu-ray Review) 20 Apr, 2015
Even some people who love 1989’s 'Say Anything' and 1996’s 'Jerry Maguire' may be unfamiliar...More>>
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Alice's Restaurant (Blu-ray Review) 30 Mar, 2015
Here’s the only Arthur Penn achievement beyond 'Bonnie and Clyde' and 'The Miracle Worker' to be...More>>
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Silicon Valley: The Complete First Season (Blu-ray Review) 28 Mar, 2015
Mike Judge’s hilarious “Silicon Valley” is a comedy show about how nerds have taken over the...More>>
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Eat Drink Man Woman (Blu-ray Review) 16 Mar, 2015
As a title, ‘Eat Drink Man Woman’ seems pretty apt, given that it deals with four sets of...More>>
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Kiss Me, Stupid (Blu-ray Review) 16 Feb, 2015
At its very least, Billy Wilder’s career Armageddon is the ultimate Rat Pack movie, a tale about...More>>
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Panic Button (DVD Review) 16 Feb, 2015
Even before the script manages to get Maurice Chevalier into nun drag, we’re talking a cinematic...More>>
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Palm Beach Story, The (Blu-ray Review) 9 Feb, 2015
An uncommonly knockabout farce even by Preston Sturges standards — yet also visually lush enough...More>>
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Breaking Away (Blu-ray Review) 2 Feb, 2015
There are enough loopy moments in this minor pleasantry about competitive bicycling to argue...More>>
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Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis (DVD Review) 2 Feb, 2015
This Encore presentation isn’t a warts-and-all documentary, but it’s still OK because a love...More>>
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Fortune, The (Blu-ray Review) 12 Jan, 2015
A huge flop in its day, The Fortune is mildly amusing all the way, with a great Jack Nicholson...More>>
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Men, Women & Children (Blu-ray Review) 10 Jan, 2015
Director Jason Reitman’s sixth film is a low-key affair about the effect of the Internet on...More>>
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Let's Be Cops (Blu-ray Review) 4 Dec, 2014
The breezy comedy 'Let’s Be Cops' does its best to extract a story out of a paper-thin premise.More>>
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It Happened One Night (Blu-ray Review) 1 Dec, 2014
The first movie to sweep the five major Oscars has been readily available for so long that it’s...More>>
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