In the final review set from this year’s Seattle International Film Festival, Bob presents short reviews for Tales from the Magic Garden, The Things You Kill, Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers, and Twinless.
Tag Archives: Comedy
The Shining (1980)
My problem with “The Shining” is that it was made at the wrong time by the wrong people. It should have been made by the Columbia Pictures short subjects department in the mid-1940s with Shemp Howard as Jack Torrance, Vera Vague as Wendy Torrance, Dudley Dickerson as Dick Halloran, and (in a loan-out from Hal Roach) Billy “Froggy” Laughlin as Danny Torrance. And behind the camera, Jules White would direct the film by filling the Overlook Hotel with a gorilla throwing pies and skeletons operating on clearly visible wires.
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Tunnel Vision (1976) [MVD Rewind]
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An uncensored television station from the future sees its content analyzed by the government.
TIME TRAVEL IS DANGEROUS [SIFF2025]
A pair of vintage shop proprietors use a time machine to help their business, leading to hilarious consequences in the British mockumentary Time Travel is Dangerous!, directed by Chris Reading. Continue reading
F*CKTOYS [SIFF2025]
A sex worker embarks on an odyssey across the desolated landscape of Trashtown in the wild and vibrant F*cktoys, written, produced, directed, and starring Annapurna Sriram.
NEW JACK FURY [SIFF2025]
A disgraced cop vows to take down a crime syndicate that kidnapped his girlfriend with the help of two criminals in Lanfia Wal’s over-the-top, lo-fi, hilarious ‘80s throwback New Jack Fury. Continue reading
SPERMAGEDDON [SIFF2025]
A young man has his first sexual adventures, while his sperm, given personification, fight to be the ones to enter the egg in Norway’s animated musical Spermageddon, directed by Rasmus A. Sivertsen & Tommy Wirkola.