Posted by Jared Mobarak on October 22, 2016 · Leave a Comment
“He likes to shout. I like to smile.” My description of Jim Hosking‘s feature directorial debut The Greasy Strangler: a gross-out, darkly obscure comedy centered on a father and son duo akin to Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne from Dumb and Dumber that exists in a deranged parallel universe to Napoleon Dynamite as directed by […]
Category comedy, film reviews, horror, suspense/thriller · Tags Abdoulaye NGom, Dumb and Dumber, Elizabeth De Razzo, Gil Gex, Holland MacFallister, Jim Hosking, Joe David Walters, John Waters, Michael St. Michaels, Napoleon Dynamite, Sam Dissanayake, Sky Elobar, The Greasy Strangler, Toby Harvard
Posted by Jared Mobarak on November 12, 2014 · Leave a Comment
“I don’t even know cursive” Nope. Not even the movie that started it all can save the fledgling career of the Farrelly Brothers. Despite reading an interview of them speaking about how great the sequel’s script was due to its being almost identical to the first, I entered their last film with an open mind. […]
Category comedy, film reviews · Tags Bobby Farrelly, Brady Bluhm, Dumb and Dumber, Dumb and Dumber To, Farrelly Brothers, Jeff Daniels, Jim Carrey, Kathleen Turner, Laurie Holden, Peter Farrelly, Rachel Melvin, Rob Riggle
Posted by Jared Mobarak on November 10, 2014 · Leave a Comment
“You sold my dead bird to a blind kid?” It’s the film that brought us the high concept, gross-out comedy sensibilities of Peter and Bobby Farrelly and it has some of the most memorable laughs of the 90s. The filmmaking brothers would go on to create a mixed bag of obnoxious, offensive, and hit or […]
Category comedy, film reviews · Tags Bennett Yellin, Bobby Farrelly, Cam Neely, Charles Rocket, Dumb and Dumber, Fred Stoller, Harland Williams, Jeff Daniels, Jim Carrey, Karen Duffy, Lauren Holly, Mike Starr, Peter Farrelly
Posted by Jared Mobarak on July 18, 2014 · Leave a Comment
With the dwindling numbers of drive-in theaters across the country, independent theaters finding it difficult to compete with huge chains, and the ever-fluctuating national box office needing too many 3D films to turn a profit, certain cities somehow find a way to keep the medium alive. Buffalo is one of them and always has been […]
Category entertainment, essays · Tags A Fish Called Wanda, A Million Ways to Die in the West, Airplane!, Arthur, Back to the Future Part II, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Citizen Kane, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, Crazy Stupid Love, Dumb and Dumber, Edge of Tomorrow, Frozen, Funny Girl, Godzilla, Good Will Hunting, Gremlins, Horton Hears a Who!, Jurassic Park, Les Misérables, Magic Mike, Maleficent, Man of Steel, Mary Poppins, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Moulin Rouge!, Mr. Mom, Neighbors, Noah, Old School, Pretty Woman, Pulp Fiction, Ratatouille, Rio 2, Silver Linings Playbook, Slumdog Millionaire, Snow Day, Something's Gotta Give, Stand By Me, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, The Big Lebowski, The Blind Side, The Blues Brothers, The Change-Up, The Dark Knight, The Goonies, The Jerk, The LEGO Movie, The Lost Boys, The Monuments Men, The Neverending Story, The Notebook, The Other Woman, The Phantom of the Opera, The Princess Bride, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Wiz, The Wizard of Oz, Thelma & Louise, Transcendence, Wayne's World, When Harry Met Sally, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Posted by Jared Mobarak on February 22, 2011 · 2 Comments
“Anyone thinking chocolate chip cookie dough on a waffle cone?” It’s a shame that Peter and Bobby Ferrelly never realized their time had come and gone by 1998 with Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin, and There’s Something About Mary—you don’t get much better in the stupid comedy field than that trio. 2003 gave hope they might […]
Category comedy, film reviews · Tags Alyssa Milano, Bobby Ferrelly, Charlie Murphy, Christina Applegate, Cuba Gooding Jr., Date Night, Derek Waters, Dumb and Dumber, Hall Pass, J.B. Smoove, Jason Sudeikis, Jenna Fischer, Kingpin, Larry Joe Campbell, Law & Order, Nicky Whelan, Owen Wilson, Peter Ferrelly, Richard Jenkins, Ricky Gervais, Snow Patrol, Stephen Merchant, Stuck on You, Styx, There’s Something About Mary, Vanessa Angel
Posted by Jared Mobarak on April 24, 2010 · 1 Comment
“You better know so Wonderbread” Between the serious faces portrayed on the poster and the heist gone wrong plot synopsis, I had no idea Hot Tamale was going to be as much of a comedy as it is. Beginning with the bizarre death of lead Harlan Woodriff’s father, the kooky family is huddled around the […]
Category buffalo niagara film festival, comedy, film features, film festival, film reviews · Tags Beth Grant, Big Love, Diora Baird, Dumb and Dumber, Harland Williams, Hot Tamale, Jason Priestley, Kingpin, Matt Cedeño, Mike Starr, Randy Quaid, Randy Spelling, Renee Victor, Ricky Martin, Sandy Martin, Sean Blakemore, Weeds
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