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Review: Laughing Boy
I Am the Man From Space (Persistence of Vision)
"...So here comes Laughing Boy, that flash ginger formerly of NYC, Austin-based for..."

April 22, 2022 Music Feature by Memory Harker

Info Breach No Laughing Matter
"...annual shot at exposing your info. If you are laughing with relief because you don’t think that your information..."

April 27, 2011 Postmarks

Is Anybody Laughing?
In the midst of economic hard times and a wave of terrorist attacks, the comedy business wonders what's funny.
"...of September 11, the day the whole world stopped laughing...."

Oct. 19, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Exit Laughing: Carl Reiner, RIP
The brilliant comedian, writer, and director has died at age 98
"...which he also played star Alan Brady), novelist (Enter Laughing), screenwriter (The Thrill of It All, The Art of..."

June 30, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Laughing It Up with Kelly Willis
Well Travelled and lovely still a quarter-century down the road
"...“I’ve been laughing a lot.”..."

Jan. 29, 2016 Music Post by William Harries Graham

The Rest of the World Isn't Laughing
"...laughs in pity or contempt." He's wrong. We're not laughing. We're trying hard not to panic...."

Feb. 18, 2005 Postmarks

A Laughing Matter
Rice University's Kim McGaw brings levity to dry topics

March 4, 2016 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Cine Las Americas and LatinWorks Are Laughing All the Way to the Bank
Faux heist ad campaign is trying to raise $50,000

Jan. 15, 2014 Screens Post by Monica Riese

Who's Laughing Now? Drafthouse Films 'Klown' Set for July Release
Drafthouse Films third release forthcoming

May 2, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Lovely Laughing Ladies
Ladies Are Funny Fest opens Thursday in the ATX

May 5, 2011 Qmmunity Post by Julie Gillis

Laughing Out Loud at Brass

April 3, 2008 Postmarks

Laughing in the Face of Bigfoot
Doc directors talk about laughing at and with the subjects of their film

March 11, 2008 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Learning Disabilities Not a Laughing Matter
"...her desk! The only result was I was the laughingstock of Maplewood Elementary from then until the sixth grade,..."

Nov. 25, 2003 Postmarks

Laughing Boy
"...short "Death and a Salesman." For more info see www.grisaffi.com/laughingboy.html...."

March 1, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bill Cosby is a Very Funny Fellow, Part II
Jazz patron Bill Cosby's cutting contest
"...make you laugh – and laugh himself. And keep laughing...."

Feb. 27, 2009 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Welcome to Me
Kristen Wiig stars in this odd comedy about a mentally unbalanced woman
"...Welcome to Me isn’t laughing with Alice, but at her, in what seems like..."

May 8, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Naked Gun Two 1/2: The Smell of Fear
"...I won't try that here. Yet, the ratio of laughing states to non-laughing states is relatively low. Too low..."

July 5, 1991 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Rat Race
"...then see what sticks. Viewers here will find themselves laughing a great deal, even though they'll have to wipe..."

Aug. 17, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Tag
Ridiculous true story of childhood retained makes for ridiculous fun
"...feature director Tomsic appreciates tag the game is rollicking, laughing, running idiocy. So Tag the movie is a kinetic..."

June 15, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Tyler Perry's Acrimony
Tyler Perry takes on the "woman scorned" trope.
"...this latest thriller (comedy? My fellow audience members were laughing at scenes I highly doubt were intended to be..."

April 6, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

Free Fire
A delirious shoot'em-up comedy
"...riddled with enough gorily farcical moments to leave you laughing up blood. It also sports more gunfire than John..."

April 21, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Big Short
The financial meltdown of 2008 is treated with terrific comic spin
"...least it has the good humor to send us laughing all the way to the grave...."

Dec. 25, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Deathgasm
Crazed Kiwi film leaves you laughing, gagging, and head-banging
"...and then some. Rarely does a film leave me laughing, gagging, and headbanging simultaneously...."

Oct. 9, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Comedy
Tim Heidecker (of Tim & Eric renown) plays a rich, cynical hipster who uses New York City as his playground.
"...wanted everybody to know he was “in on it,” laughing like a hyena at every racist joke and mention..."

Nov. 30, 2012 Movie Review by Leah Churner

Buried
Buried takes place entirely inside a coffin where a man is buried alive.
"...Allan Poe is uncorking a bottle of Amontillado and laughing himself silly. (Note to asthmatics: Bring your inhaler. You're..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Bedtime Stories
Adam Sandler has finally found his audience: 3-year-olds. Maybe he should stop making movies already and just rent himself out for kids’ parties.
"...simpler things in life – gum balls, sports cars, laughing at little people – who is suddenly thrust into..."

Dec. 26, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Happy-Go-Lucky
British director Mike Leigh's latest is an uncharacteristic story about an indomitably joyful woman – a lovely state of being, perhaps, but not necessarily of dramatic interest.
"...an abused child is enough to stop her from laughing, and that's the film's problem: Leigh's creation is fixed..."

Oct. 31, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
This French box-office sensation is a send-up of Sixties spy films.
"...never once makes you feel like an idiot for laughing out loud at its idiocy...."

Oct. 3, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Baby Mama
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler skewer motherhood but make sure that nothing gets terribly burnt.
"...big, fat, juicy, unchallenging, uncontroversial middle ground, where everybody’s laughing but nothing is all that funny...."

April 25, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The Bucket List
Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman play characters who have only a short time to live. Promises, promises.
"...aim for slightly vaguer, more “mystical” goals, such as laughing until they cry, witnessing something majestic, and finding the..."

Jan. 11, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

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