Nate Caine (Jack Quaid) has a unique condition: he can’t feel physical pain. Fearful of killing himself by accident, he lives a secluded life. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Comedy
Listen, Judge (1952)
No one ever accused the Three Stooges of being ecologically focused, but their 1952 short “Listen, Judge” offers a brilliant example of recycling old material to create a new and vibrant comedy explosion.
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Dance with Me, Henry (1956)
The 1956 “Dance with Me, Henry” is a strange and dreary film that ended the on-screen teamwork of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. Working within the tight confines of a low budget – the team had parted ways with their longtime studio Universal Pictures and wound up with independent producer Bob Goldstein – the duo eschewed the elaborate knockabout of their typical output in favor of a more situational comedy setting.
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Help! (1965)
In retrospect, it’s a shame that “Help!” wasn’t presented as a one-hour TV special rather than as a 92-minute feature film. In trying to one-up the lightning-in-a-bottle success of “A Hard Day’s Night,” director Richard Lester and his mop-topped stars reaffirmed the axiom that bigger is not always better by creating a large-scale romp that only occasionally percolates with hilarity but eventually wears out its welcome long before the closing credits.
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Friday (1995) [Black History Month]
You come into the room and see the New Line Cinema title card gracing the television screen. There’s no theme like before Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, or a horror movie, but in its place remains a voice over instead. You know the voice, you know the quote, and you know the movie.
Short Film For You!: JIM [Black History Month]
The Three Stooges in Orbit (1962)
One of the happiest moviegoing memories of my life did not take place in a cinema, but inside the auditorium of Junior High School 141 in the Bronx, New York, when I was in seventh grade. For reasons that had nothing to do with educational enlightenment, someone in charge decided it would be a good idea to show “The Three Stooges in Orbit” to the kids during their lunch break.
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