Roman Holiday (1953)
Roman Holiday is a famous and important film for many reasons, probably most for introducing the world to the incomparable Audrey Hepburn, here in her first major starring role, and one which won her...
Category: Comedy
The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989)
Two brothers, Frank and Jack Baker (played by real-life brothers Jeff and Beau Bridges), have spent the last 15 years playing gigs together at various lounges as the Fabulous Baker Boys, a two-man pianist...
Fourplay / Londinium / Love Affairs / Life After Sex (2001)
Mike Binder (of HBO’s “The Mind of the Married Man”) writes, directs and stars as Ben Greene, a successful American sitcom writer who is hired in Great Britain to work on a sitcom starring...
Silver Streak (1976)
Silver Streak is the first of two Colin Higgins scripts to emulate the lighter side of Hitchcock (Foul Play is the other), and even though no one would ever confuse the quality of this film with...
Le Divorce (2003)
Somewhere in the confines of Le Divorce is an entertaining film yearning to get out. Sadly, it is not to be, as the Merchant-Ivory team fails to deliver their usual whimsical charm, seeming uncomfortable with...
Stakeout (1987)
Stakeout is a buddy movie done right, and one of the rare exceptions where the plot is actually almost as interesting as the comical interpersonal hi-jinks between the two stars. It also pairs two people...
Shrek 2 (2004)
A sheer delight from beginning to end, Shrek 2 manages to be even better than its now classic predecessor in scope and humor value. Whether or not the pop references and modern jokes will stand the...
Lost in Translation (2003)
Ten years before the release of Lost in Translation, Bill Murray opted to star in a light romantic comedy, Groundhog Day, and although I’m a big fan of Murray’s schmoozy slapstick flicks, I just shook my head when...
Moving Violations (1985)
Seeking to capitalize on the success of the lowbrow comedies that flourished in the mid-80s comes Moving Violations, a sparsely amusing throwaway film from the same writers of Police Academy and Bachelor Party, Pat Proft and Neal Isreal. ...
Mean Girls (2004)
The ultimate irony of a satire about a good girl who pretends to convert to a bad girl in order to undermine the loathsome “in-crowd” but becoming one of them in the process —...