Category: Comedy
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Movie Review: “The Menu” (Mark Mylod, USA 2022)
The response to this film has largely focused on its skewering of “foodie” culture and/or, more generally, the wealthy. It’s about how these silly rich people don’t understand what they’re doing and pay enormous sums of money for nonsense food. It’s about how performative the food culture is. It’s about how performative the world of…
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Movie Review: “Monsieur Verdoux” (Charles Chaplin, USA 1947)
Charles Chaplin has become a misunderstood figure in Hollywood history. He is remembered as the Little Tramp character the he played in several silent films, a character whose physical comedy high jinks are often still delightful and reveal Chaplin’s incredible performance skills. However, he was not just a circus performer. He was much more. Those…
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Movie Review: “Into the Woods” (Rob Marshall, USA 2014)
Fairy tales are bizarre. They are full of sexual innuendo, corrupted morals, oversimplified ethical dilemmas, bizarre behavior, intense violence, and general weirdness. I have often thought that much of the weirdness inherent in most fairy tales is fairly well exemplified by a fundamental problem I have long had with the story of Cinderella: how the…
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