Comedy

Spider-Verse tastily envelops ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’

Awhile back, Disney and Sony were on the brink of ending their agreement of making “Spider-Man” movies together. (Sony owns the Spider-Man rights; Disney/Marvel rents

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John’s top 10 movies of 2021

Although the pandemic didn’t end, 2021 rebounded nicely from 2020, with a lot more movies – both big and small – released. Heck, a case

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John’s top 10 TV shows of 2021

I used to count the days before a new season of a favorite show, or a new series starring a favorite actor. Now, it’s like

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‘You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger’ (2010) … but he’ll be familiar

It’s hard to describe “You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger” (2010) and not make it sound derivative of other Woody Allen movies. The way

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‘8-Bit Christmas’ joins pantheon of holiday classics

Television and streaming have produced so many Christmas movies in recent years – most of them mediocre at best — that one could be forgiven

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‘Night Before,’ (2015), ‘Office Christmas Party’ (2016) offer holiday chuckles

Movies made by friends who like to hang out together can be almost unwatchable (recent Adam Sandler comedies), but sometimes they can be great. “The

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‘Melinda and Melinda’ (2004) explores comedy-tragedy line

In “Melinda and Melinda” (2004), Woody Allen posits there’s a thin line between comedy and tragedy, then successfully proves it. A group of writer friends

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Grass is always greener in ‘Husbands and Wives’ (1992)

Woody Allen bounces back from perhaps his worst movie, “Shadows and Fog” (1991), with one of his best: “Husbands and Wives” (1992). He gets back

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‘Army of Thieves’ a ‘safe’ ‘Army of the Dead’ prequel

“Army of Thieves” (Netflix) might be the first movie where a zombie apocalypse happens in the background, with people barely mentioning it. That uniqueness comes

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Allen tackles TV with ‘Crisis in Six Scenes’ (2016)

For “Crisis in Six Scenes” (2016, Amazon Prime), Woody Allen takes a rolling pin to a movie idea, flattening it out to take up six

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