Category Archives: Comedy

Morning Glory review

Sure, there was His Girl Friday and all those other deftly written and performed romantic comedies of a bygone era, the ones critics are fond of recalling and comparing with a substandard progenitor. But what Morning Glory especially reminds this audience member of is a slew of mainstream Hollywood entertainments of the 1980s, usually the…Read More

RED review

I gotta say, with this cast on board, I was pretty excited to check out RED. I mean, this may be the cast of the year, with apologies to The Expendables. You've got Helen Mirren, Bruce Willis, Brian Cox, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Mary-Louise Parker, Karl Urban, Richard Dreyfuss, Rebecca Pidgeon and Ernest Borgnine, who…Read More

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World review

Directed by Edgar Wright Written by Wright and Michael Bacall from the Bryan Lee O'Malley graphic novels. The backstory: Scott Pilgrim is an early 20-something dude living in Toronto. He doesn't have a job, but he plays bass in a rock band. He shares an apartment with a friend, Wallace Wells, who happens to be…Read More

A Bug and a Bag of Weed returns

Just a heads up for my Halifax peeps:The excellent independent film series Carbon Arc at the Khyber has beenbringing us all sorts of interesting films on Thursday evenings through the summer.(Check out former Coast film critic Mark Palermo's intro to Torque here.)Tonight they're showing A Bug and a Bag of Weed, a comedy shot in…Read More