Category: Comedy
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Yourself And Yours (2016)
This has happened before with a previous Hong Sang-soo movie where I just took the events at face value, and only later browsing other people’s reviews saw the different ways they were reading into it. Because what the film, Yourself And Yours (2016), covers is often so ordinary and everyday – people meeting at bars,… Read.
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Body Melt (1993)
When the younger cop pulled off his shades to reveal it was Andrew Daddo… a powerful surge ran through me. As a local council mayor said recently during a radio interview, “Think global, act local.” And genres can always travel internationally, globally, such as horror with lots of gore and goop. But that local touch,… Read.
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Funny Pages (2022)
Growing up in 1980s and 1990s pop culture, one myth was the idea that if you were a geek or a nerd, or if you had niche interests about arts, movies, comic-books, that made you more special and creative than the mainstream. I can’t point to any one text, but just the idea that if… Read.
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The Forest For The Trees (2003)
Around the hour mark in The Forest For The Trees (2003), I finally had to close my eyes, not being able to bear watching another scene of social embarrassment. I usually have a high tolerance for cringe-inducing comedy, but I think I needed one sensory break for the continued awkwardness and loneliness of Melanie (Eva… Read.
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License To Live (1998)
There’s a shot in License To Live (1998), directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, where the main character’s father sits in a chair at the foot of his bed. Cast in shadows, the father is telling his son that he’s leaving after their brief reunion, and he resembles a ghost drained of colour. Kurosawa is best known… Read.
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