Comedy

Craig’s Blanc joins a newly loaded cast for ‘Glass Onion’

With his James Bond run concluded, Daniel Craig has already solidified his next franchise by playing Benoit Blanc, the old-fashioned Southern detective who solved “Knives

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‘A Christmas Story Christmas’ won’t be a classic like the original

“A Christmas Story Christmas” (HBO Max), the first “A Christmas Story” sequel to see Peter Billingsley return as Ralphie Parker, drops visual references to the

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‘Elf’ (2003) is worth taking off the shelf every Christmas

I like watching great movies and TV, but it so happens that a lot of today’s great movies and TV are murder-mysteries and pitch-black comedies.

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‘Atlanta’ Seasons 3-4 are a surreal snapshot of 2022

Like reaching into a bag of Skittles, you won’t know what flavor you’re getting when you fire up one of the 20 episodes of “Atlanta”

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‘Everyone Says I Love You’ (1996) celebrates heart’s desires

Most Woody Allen movies are a little cynical about love. As if he’s aiming for his oeuvre to include a film at every point on

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Donner, Murray add nutmeg to a classic in ‘Scrooged’ (1988)

Director Richard Donner’s “Scrooged” (1988) reimagines Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” with a cynical 1980s edge, without sacrificing the timeless message. Bill Murray is the

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‘Don’t Drink the Water’ adapted poorly (1969) and, well, better (1994)

Before Woody Allen gained enough clout to write and direct his own work, he saw some of it in the hands of other filmmakers –

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‘Beavis and Butt-head’ more smartly stupid than ever in Season 9

Stupidity knows no generational boundary, as “Beavis and Butt-head” proves with the 22 15-minute episodes and one half-hour episode that make up Season 9 (Paramount

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‘Anna and the Apocalypse’ (2017) is fun … until the end

In the musical zombie comedy “Anna and the Apocalypse” (2017), the cliched themes of “High School Musical” meet the tropes of “The Walking Dead” in

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‘Unaccompanied Minors’ (2006) are unaccompanied by laughs

Around the turn of the century, Judd Apatow and Paul Feig collaborated on “Freaks and Geeks” and “Undeclared,” two of the all-time best (and most

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