Shutter is a film that tries, perhaps harder than any other film in recent memory, to scare the pants off the viewer. What Airplane! was to comedy films, Shutter is to horror. Just about each and every moment in the film is a set-up to a scare scene of some kind, usually involving a ghost ...
Alice in Wonderland, Burlesque, The Kids Are All Right, Red, and The Tourist all received Golden Globe nominations for best comedy films of 2010. Admittedly, I have not seen every comedy of 2010, but based on the ones I have seen, these would be my choices for the best comedy films of 2010: The Tourist ...
Woody Allen denies that his film Annie Hall is autobiographical, but those who knew Woody back then claim that the story coincides very closely with episodes in Allen’s early life. In fact, Diane Keaton in her published memoir entitled Then Again (2011) recalls their five-year romantic involvement back then. She admits: I did want to ...
It is a difficult job to try and recommend funny movies to anyone else. One person’s sense of humor is so much different from another’s and one person might sit in stoic silent while another is rolling in the aisle. When I set out to create this list of the top 10 funniest movies of ...
In a world gone mad, comedic relief has been a remedy for many of woes for all of us when we most need it. This year was not short of the funny film or two. Some films triumphed more than others at the box office the year. The films that made me most laugh can ...
