Review: The Life of Brian
[Originally published in Movietone News 64-65, March 1980] Ordinarily, nothing would be further from the point about Monty Python’s Life of Brian than the film’s reverence or lack of same toward the...
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[Originally published in Movietone News 56, November 1977] We sometimes say that comedy is a very serious business, and we’re right; but that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t make us laugh. Comedy is serious...
View ArticleBlu-ray: The Definitive ‘Brazil’
Terry Gilliam’s Brazil (Criterion), a dark, dense science fiction fantasy, is like “1984” rewritten by Monty Python, an absurdist nightmare of Kafka-esque dimensions. Jonathan Pryce is the dreamer...
View ArticleReview: The Death of Stalin
Reviewed by Robert Horton for Seattle Weekly If satire doesn’t draw blood, what’s the point? For years that was the problem with Saturday Night Live, which tended to make its political caricatures into...
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Review: The Life of Brian
[Originally published in Movietone News 64-65, March 1980] Ordinarily, nothing would be further from the point about Monty Python’s Life of Brian than the film’s reverence or lack of same toward the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: Jabberwocky
[Originally published in Movietone News 56, November 1977] We sometimes say that comedy is a very serious business, and we’re right; but that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t make us laugh. Comedy is serious...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Blu-ray: The Definitive ‘Brazil’
Terry Gilliam’s Brazil (Criterion), a dark, dense science fiction fantasy, is like “1984” rewritten by Monty Python, an absurdist nightmare of Kafka-esque dimensions. Jonathan Pryce is the dreamer...
View ArticleReview: The Death of Stalin
Reviewed by Robert Horton for Seattle Weekly If satire doesn’t draw blood, what’s the point? For years that was the problem with Saturday Night Live, which tended to make its political caricatures into...
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