Comedy

‘Love Actually’ (2003) hangs wide array of emotions on the Christmas tree

“Love Actually” (2003) starts off so lovable – safely mainstream, but with touches of cynicism to undercut that when needed — that one wonders if

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Poor little rich cartoon: A look at the end of ‘TMNT’ Season 4 (1990)

The back half of CBS’ first season of “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” (Season 4, episodes 27-39) (1990) is around the time my interest started to

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‘Thin Man’ movie (1934) emphasizes stars, but I can’t blame it

“The Thin Man” movie adaptation (1934) is a fascinating case study in how some things work for the written word and some things work for

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‘Mr. Monk’s Last Case: A Monk Movie’ is not only for obsessives

Revivals often invoke nostalgia for the bygone series, if enough time has passed. It’s been 14 years since “Monk” (2002-09, USA) ended its run as

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‘Shaun of the Dead’ (2004) the all-time elite zom-com

“Shaun of the Dead” (2004) is not only the best zombie comedy of all time, but a case could be made that it uses zombies

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Intrigue disappears behind comedy in ‘The Lady Vanishes’ (1938)

Four years after Agatha Christie’s “Murder on the Orient Express” chronicled a mystery on a snowed-in train in Eastern Europe, Afred Hitchcock did the same

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Missing Mona Lisa: A look at ‘TMNT’s’ early CBS episodes (Season 4, 1990)

In the first CBS episode, as the Turtles (rather slowly) recognize that a giant fly footprint belongs to Baxter Stockman, they muse about who else

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‘Return of the Living Dead’ (1985) takes the comedic route

“The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” (1974) has one of the messiest horror-franchise continuities, with each of the co-creators trying their own narrative continuation: one in

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‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Season 3 (1989) goes out in a ‘Big’ way

“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” Season 3’s (1989) concluding batch (episodes 38-47) features imaginative notions, the return of Baxter-Fly and the Neutrinos, and a suitably “Big”

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Leatherhead, Usagi enter the fray in ‘TMNT’ Season 3 (1989)

Season 3 episodes 30-37 (1989) of the “TMNT” cartoon is a fun and toyetic stretch as it features the debuts of action-figure characters Leatherhead, Usagi

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