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Nov 4, 2021 · Crime drama one of TV's most popular genres, but with trust in authorities waning and audience expectations changing, what could be the future of the genre?
Nov 21, 2023 · From absurdist humor to quirky romance to kid's films, it’s obvious that the 2000s were a golden age for comedy movies - but what made them so great? A variety of things had to come together ...
The reason that they were so popular THEN is because pot was up and coming as something that was becoming socially acceptable as well as becoming legal in some states within the next few years from the release of some of those films.
- Best in Show
- Wet Hot American Summer
- Bubba Ho-Tep
- School of Rock
- Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
- Mean Girls
- Shaun of The Dead
- Team America: World Police
- Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
- The 40-Year-Old Virgin
This was a tough one because A Mighty Wind is also pretty great, but in terms of which is funnier, the award goes to Best in Show. It has the excellent cast of characters with every single actor knocking it out of the park combined with the high-stakes/low-stakes platform of a dog show where the stars may be the pets, but it’s the owners who are th...
Wet Hot American Summer is an insane movie. Absurdist comedy is certainly not for everyone, and the film was a box office bomb upon release, but those that were able to find Wet Hot and get on its level discovered a treasure trove of comedy gold. The brainchild of The State alums David Wain and Michael Showalter, the film takes place over a single ...
Don Coscarelli’s movies always have some offbeat humor packed in, but Bubba Ho-Tep is without a doubt his most outright hilarious movie yet. Based on a short story from prolific genre author Joe Lansdale, Bubba Ho-Tep stars Bruce Campbell and Ossie Davis as two men trapped in a retirement home with a soul-sucking mummy walking the halls and stealin...
Jack Black had been making his way as a solid comic relief character actor to this point, but Richard Linklater’s script for School of Rock really gave Black a chance to make full use of all of his talents, weaving together his schlubby underdog with his inherently lovable demeanor. And yet it’s Black’s musical ability that’s the film’s ace in the ...
There may not be a more quotable comedy so far this century. I still can’t look at milk without thinking, “Milk was a bad choice.” Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy is delightfully madcap, and yet it still holds together, which is remarkable when you consider that they basically reshot the entire thing and gave it a different plot (the original...
Plenty of Saturday Night Live alums try their hands at the feature film world, but successfully navigating that crossover is oftentimes hard. Tina Fey, however, had no problems whatsoever when she decided to write Mean Girls, based on the self-help book Queen Bees & Wannabes. Fey approaches the material with tact, humor, and insight, crafting a now...
While funny is funny, there’s a pretty diverse set of subgeneres within comedy. Edgar Wright’s breakout film Shaun of the Dead, however, is in a class of its own. The “zomromcom” combines elements of horror, comedy, romance, and bromance to result in a perfect cocktail of a movie. I wouldn’t even necessary classify it in one genre—it’s just a great...
Writers/directors Trey Parker and Matt Stone say they instantly regretted their decision to make Team America: World Police once they saw the puppets in motion, but thank God they finished it out. While the South Park creators haven’t dabbled too much in things outside the realm of their Comedy Central series, when they do they tend to strike gold....
It’s almost like someone said, “You can’t have comedy in a noir,” and Shane Black said, “Challenge accepted.” The plot of Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang has all the trappings of a hard-boiled noir, but Black imbues everything with razor-sharp comedy expertly delivered by Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer giving a couple of the best performances of their caree...
Judd Apatow single-handedly changed the face of comedy for a few years there in the mid-2000s. In the place of high-concept gags or romcoms, The 40-Year-Old Virgin brought a looseness to the genre thanks to Apatow’s willingness to let his cast improvise, but he also aimed to thread James L. Brooks-esque drama into his films. The 40-Year-Old Virgin ...
Dec 23, 2019 · Canada's more than 1.6 million Indigenous people are vastly underrepresented in mainstream entertainment media, but an increasing number are using comedy to break through, entertain, and start a...
Mar 11, 2023 · Comedy has proven to be one of the most popular genres in the whole history of recorded entertainment. Why is this, and what British comedy does it particularly well on a global scale?
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Sep 10, 2020 · Every year in the 2000s had some true Hollywood comedy gems, from animated classic Shrek to Edgar Wright's Cornetto Trilogy debut Shaun of the Dead.
