ENORMOUS ADVANCE ON PINK SHEETS Fascination juggles perplexity in Monster House. Animation is top-notch, and the advances are plain even to a layman; a character like Chowder is sui generis and far more detailed than necessary, loveable even; the voicings are mostly bull's-eye etc. But the plot is boldly misogynist, and that black sidekick cop if inexplicable. Screenplay credits include two producers of Sarah Silverman's Comedy Central pilot, and they must have barred the doors -- this is material on a platter for her. The moral of this … [Read more...]
NOSTALGIC FOR NIXON, PART I
July 5, 2006 By
Everybody underrate comics, and satirists have an even arder time of it. Lewis Black's recent HBO special made the leap -- long stretches of his routine traded laughs for righteous, hard-earned bile. Herry Shearer has a Masters in Political Science from Harvard, you can look it up, but you'd never guess it from how funny he is. He gets off the best kicker to the Supreme Court decision. (If you don't listen to le show every week, you are an ignoramus.) NOBODY TOLD ME Lion's Gate schedules The U.S. vs. John Lennon for September... QUOTE OF … [Read more...]
