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by | Jun 1, 2022

As “woke corporations” like Disney begin to learn that American shareholders and consumers are sick of companies virtue-signaling at the…

by | Apr 26, 2022

Of the many brilliant, hilarious gags in Mel Brooks’ classic The Producers (1967), my favorite is the one where theatrical…

by | Mar 20, 2022

One of Vladimir Putin’s many recent contributions to international cultural exchange is that his invasion of Ukraine has brought renewed…

by | Mar 15, 2022

In a few key respects, HBO and Netflix are not alike. One way this is reflected is in how the…

by | Feb 22, 2022

You don’t have to have seen the 1996 teen flick The Craft (I haven’t) to loathe its 2020 sequel, The…

by | Feb 17, 2022

In the middle of the night, Clara (Zoe Kazan), a 30-ish housewife, creeps out of bed, wakes up her two…

by | Dec 17, 2021

Reading Mel Brooks’s new autobiography, All About Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business, I found myself thinking, “There will…

by | Dec 15, 2021

When Sex and the City premiered on HBO in 1998, it was packaged as a post-sexual revolution look at four New York…

by | Dec 15, 2021

Hate them, like most intellectuals, or love them, like the majority of Dutch television viewers, everyone in the Netherlands knows…

by | Dec 11, 2021

We may be living in the golden age of funny insurance ads. (Funny ads about insurance, not ads about funny…

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