Sloppy slapstick needs to be cleaned up, and comic relationships are still to be discovered. Most of all, the ensemble needs to come together. Right now, the audience is watching a series of individual comic riffs, some brilliant, some promising, some simply flat. Clearly, there’s much ...
“Sly Fox’s” roistering comic style owes far more to the old TV variety shows that gave Gelbart his start in showbiz than it does to Jonson’s corrosive, eternally potent satire on human greed. Jonson’s play lives on because it’s based in a shrewd, if theatrically hyperbolic, analys...
of hilarious scenes like when Biaggio attempts to throw the police off their trail with a ransom note from the fictitious “Jamal Colorado” inspired by a combining a black first name with one of the fifty states. But human oddity Biaggio is basically around to provide intermittent comic ...
needs you and needs your time, you kind of can’t be self-interested anymore and you have to consider that any time you spend away from your child is invaluable. And so I think I’ll just probably be a bit more choosy and not work for two years straight like I just did. KW: You...
Tuesday, July 31, 2007 Summer '04 (German) Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Twisted Thriller Threads Trio of Teutons in Tawdry Triangle Nils (Lucas Kotaranin) had no idea what he was in store for him when his much younger girlfriend’s parents agreed to let their precocious daughter ...