Tag: comedy
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Pride Month 2024 Review Batch: All of Us Strangers, Am I OK, Blue Jean, Gun Hill Road, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, In & Out, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Latter Days, L’immensità, Longtime Companion, Naz & Maalik, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Torch Song Trilogy, Victim
Happy Pride Month! Nope, didn’t forget this year, just delayed because of timing: all those buddy action-comedy flicks and 28 Pixar movies…June’s been busy because of theatrical release dates. It’s been a long time coming for this year’s batch of reviews of LGBTQ+-themed movies, so I’ll waste no further space. Let’s take a look at…
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Grading the Franchise: Toy Story
Grading the Franchise is a recurring feature at Cinecaps Digest where I review an entire film series. Today, it’s the animated family adventure-comedy Toy Story series. Note: This is mostly a formality, as I’ve already reviewed all of these movies as part of the recent Best and Worst of Pixar Animation Studios ranked feature. Since every…
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Grading the Franchise: Cars
Grading the Franchise is a recurring feature at Cinecaps Digest where I review an entire film series. Today, it’s the animated family racing-comedy Cars series. Note: This is mostly a formality, as I’ve already reviewed all of these movies as part of the recent Best and Worst of Pixar Animation Studios ranked feature. Since every film…
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The Best and the Worst from Pixar Animation Studios (#10-1)
We’ve reached the pinnacle (or the cellar?) of the list of Pixar animated features: the Top Ten. I suppose it says something that in the thirty years Pixar has been releasing full-length films, only three of the ten best have come in the last fifteen years. Pixar spoiled us out of the gate: for the…
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The Best and the Worst from Pixar Animation Studios (#19-11)
Continuing on with this ranked look at all of the feature films released by Pixar Animation Studios, we’re past the weak and mediocre ones, but still a day away from the cream of the crop. Before jumping into the next part of the countdown, I want to take a moment to recognize I may have…
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The Best and the Worst from Pixar Animation Studios (#28-20)
Last year, I watched, reviewed, rated and ranked all of the theatrical animated films produced by Walt Disney Studios, from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to Strange World (it was a few months before Wish was released). This year, I’m tackling all the movies from Pixar Animation Studios…which is a subsidiary of Walt Disney…
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Dad-Dominant Review Batch (Part 3): Affliction, Blood Father, Brad’s Status, Broken Lance, Ezra, Fatherhood, Great American Pastime, Infinitely Polar Bear, Old Dads, Tarzan Finds a Son, We Bought a Zoo, When Did You Last See Your Father, World’s Greatest Dad
Happy Father’s Day! Like last year (and 2020, for that matter), I’m presenting a batch of reviews for movies focused on fathers and the relationships (good or bad) they have with their children. As always, I like to ferret out a wide variety of types, so there are dads who are doin’ a heckuva job,…
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Grading the Franchise: Lethal Weapon
Grading the Franchise is a recurring feature at Cinecaps Digest where I review an entire film series. Today, it’s the buddy cop action-comedy Lethal Weapon series. Among straight examples of the buddy cop sub-genre, Lethal Weapon sits in the highest class. The series’ best films (the original and first sequel) are as good as any other…
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The Buddy System (or, Formula Living Through Odd Couple Chemistry) Review Batch (Part 2): Alien Nation, Armed and Dangerous, Bright, Collision Course, Dead Heat, Feds, Frisco Kid, Hot Pursuit, Loose Cannons, Man, Ride Along, Theodore Rex, Turner & Hooch
You didn’t think we were done, did you? I can’t just do one batch of reviews for buddy action-comedies and leave it at that. It’s right there in the name of the sub-genre—it needs a buddy! This mismatched partner of the first buddy action-comedy post is bringing up the rear in a second look at…
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The Buddy System (or, Formula Living Through Odd Couple Chemistry) Review Batch (Part 1): Air America, Bad Boys: Ride or Die, Bulletproof, Busting, Downtown, Freebie and the Bean, Guard, Heat, Let’s Be Cops, National Security, Other Guys, Protector, Rundown, 2 Guns
The storytelling device of police partners going after bad guys goes back a long, long ways. So, too, does the idea of a mismatched “odd couple” working together, reluctantly or otherwise. Fusing the two into a formula had some prototypical development in the 60s and 70s, but finally came into its own with 48 Hrs.…