Austin Film Festival to Honor Dede Gardner and Stephen Merchant

Awards for Moonlight producer, The Office co-creator

"...Ricky Gervais) of The Office revamped the seemingly moribund sitcom format, with both the UK version and the US..."

Aug. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Nope

Jordan Peele's sci-fi horror/satire on minor celebrity is a "yeah"

"...kid star Ricky "Jupe" Park (Yeun) has gone from sitcom fame to running a rinky-dink Wild West theme park...."

July 22, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Men

Alex Garland's mix of gender and myth is saved by its villain

"...many catchphrases from The League of Gentlemen, a sketch-based sitcom most notable in the U.S. for launching the careers..."

May 20, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

9 Bullets

Dismal road trip crime drama with Lena Headey as a grumpy ex-stripper

"...calls her like a minor character from a Nineties sitcom), and having her slowly warm to parenthood. However, that's..."

April 22, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

India Sweets and Spices

Insights into the Indian immigrant experience can't save this insipid rom-com

"...soirée comeuppance can lift this film out of its sitcom trappings. Positive ethnic portrayals are always refreshing, but unfortunately,..."

Nov. 19, 2021 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Cherry

The Russos pull the threads between addiction and PTSD

"...style since their run on Community (fans of the sitcom may spot undoubted similarities), and they have turned their..."

March 12, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Dead

Comedy about raising the dead doesn't raise too many laughs

"...of the gags would fit in a clumsy 1970s sitcom, leaving the end result a little dated. One sequence..."

Sept. 25, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Now Speaking at SXSW: Ozzy Osbourne, Trent Reznor, Janelle Monae

Plus: St. Vincent, Carrie Brownstein, Judd Apatow, Desus & Mero

"...Kenya Barris, the mastermind behind all sitcom’s ending in …ish will sit with actress Rashida Jones..."

Feb. 11, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

My ATX Television Festival With the Scrubs Cast

The medics of Sacred Heart reunite in Austin this June

"...NBC less than a month after 9/11, when any sitcom seemed doomed. However, its mixture of comedy, empathy, tragedy,..."

Feb. 6, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Josh Thomas’s New Show Promises Everything’s Gonna Be Okay

Qmmunity chats with the writer, actor, creator about his latest work

"...with autism at the forefront. It’s like a family sitcom, but I don't know that many families that are..."

Dec. 11, 2019 Qmmunity Post by Erica Lies

Before You Know It

Theatre family gets more drama than they expected in this sweet tragicomedy

"...be their own film, not bolted on like a sitcom B-plot...."

Sept. 6, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Ngozi Ukazu Hip-Checks This Year’s Staple! Expo

Local artist brings a hockey team’s worth of wit & bro-centric warmth

"...were Justice League International, which is basically the Nineties sitcom version of a comic. It was a Nineties sitcom..."

Sept. 5, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Death of Stalin

Russia's political upheaval rewritten as dark farce.

"...that led to the 2003 Iraq invasion, and HBO sitcom Veep, a merry farce of the executive branch. They’re..."

March 16, 2018 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Making Tragedy Funny Again at Moontower Comedy

Stand-ups pull punch lines out of personal traumas

"...in really basic terms, I'm like every bad Eighties sitcom. There's a dad raisin' a kid by himself ......"

April 21, 2017 Arts Feature by Sean L. Malin

Storks

These animated birds never quite achieve liftoff

"...Junior and Tulip, who’s seemingly modeled on the ditzy TV-sitcom character Grace Adler, banter their way cross-country. The humor..."

Sept. 23, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Meddler

A terrific vehicle for Susan Sarandon as a meddlesome mom

"...temporarily departs for New York City to shoot a sitcom, and a higher-than-a-kite Marnie (don’t ask) spends a platonic..."

May 13, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Sisters

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler wistfully party like there's no tomorrow

"...we’ve seen all that before on another essential NBC sitcom, Poehler’s Parks & Recreation (well, essential to everybody but..."

Dec. 18, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Rosenwald

Chicago-based, Jewish philanthropist Julius Rosenwald is profiled

"...the story of television’s very first (and unquestionably Semitic) sitcom, Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg. Rosenwald doesn’t quite knock it out..."

Oct. 9, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Adam Green is Digging Up the Marrow

Indie horror auteur road-trips his new film this week

"...which became the effective pilot for Holliston, his FEARnet sitcom with longtime friend and creative partner Joe Lynch. Those..."

Feb. 17, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Comedy Speed Dating

Fred Armisen, W. Kamau Bell, Chris Cubas, Rob Gagnon's One Hour Comedy Festival, Neil Hamburger, Thomas Middleditch, Kumail Nanjiani, Jonah Ray

"...an actor and currently co-stars on Mike Judge's HBO sitcom Silicon Valley and hosts podcasts The Indoor Kids and..."

Nov. 7, 2014 Arts Feature by Scott Schinder

AFF Announces Award Winners

Narrative feature jury award goes to The Kings Surrender

"...Sitcom Teleplay Pilot: Great Points Park by Danny Sullivan..."

Oct. 26, 2014 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

DVDanger: XX versus XY

Female-centric horrors Witching & Bitching, Life After Beth

"...sensibilities. Substituting that film's A-list cast with instantly recognizable sitcom stars (not just Plaza, but her precursors and contemporaries,..."

Oct. 21, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

'Joan Thinks I'm Funny, So I Better Keep Going'

Oddball Festival's Whitney Cummings on the craft of comedy

"...an army of men. Cummings, co-creator of the CBS sitcom Two Broke Girls and creator of her own short-lived..."

Sept. 19, 2014 Arts Post by Russ Espinoza

Bad Words

Jason Bateman plays a grown man who finds a loophole to compete in a kids national spelling bee, but the reasons are only known to him.

"...his feature-filmmaking debut, after directing a number of TV sitcom episodes). The result is an amusing, though never hilarious,..."

March 21, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin Film Festival Announces Jury and Screenplay Awards

Audiences still have chances to catch screenings

"...AMC One-Hour Teleplay Pilot: Liberators by Eric Haywood • Sitcom Teleplay Pilot: I Love Monsters by Julie Cross •..."

Oct. 27, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

Pilot Light

Previously doomed shows finally air at ATX TV Fest

"...Consider Heat Vision and Jack, the sci-fi sitcom starring Jack Black and Owen Wilson: Fox ordered the..."

June 7, 2013 Screens Feature by Leah Churner

The Best and Worst of Fall TV

Andy Samberg and Michael J. Fox have promising shows lined up

"...P. Keaton is. The Peacock is high on this sitcom (ordering it straight to series before even shooting a..."

May 17, 2013 Screens Post by Aleksander Chan

Language of a Broken Heart

Actor/writer/co-producer Juddy Talt fashions a tale about a romance writer who's unlucky in love, and filmed it largely in Dallas.

"...the same message, be it via an especially ambitious sitcom or a two-minute pop song. You can pack a..."

March 29, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Playing for Keeps

In this all-too-predictable romantic comedy/drama, Gerard Butler plays an ex-soccer star who ultimately reunites with his ex-wife and son, whose team he coaches.

"...provides for some amusing situations, though in a TV sitcom sort of way...."

Dec. 7, 2012 Movie Review by Louis Black

AFF2012: Competition Films & Scripts Awards

'Sparrows Dance,' 'Informant' recognized

"...Sitcom Teleplay Pilot: "Katie and Becca Grow-Up" by Leila Cohan-Miccio..."

Oct. 21, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

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