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

The Trip

Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon co-star as best friends on a road trip in Michael Winterbottom's colicky, melancholy, and very amusing comedy.

"...weary of his companion to openly contemptuous. Brydon, a sitcom and radio star in the UK, has a dopey,..."

July 15, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

TV Eye

More summer shows

"...has discovered the once-and-forever Golden Girl. In this traditional sitcom, she plays Elka Ostrovsky, the feisty, sharp-tongued senior joining..."

July 2, 2010 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Leave It to Beverly

This send-up of sitcoms can't solve its problems as smoothly as the old shows it spoofs did

"...as that it did happen, that these two separate sitcoms were suddenly in the same universe (with Green Acres,..."

Nov. 13, 2009 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Funny People

With this story about comedians which stars Adam Sandler and Seth Rogen, filmmaker Judd Apatow rewrites his own songbook in the key of James L. Brooks, a tricky mix of humor and heartfelt.

"...trenches, into the comedy circuit, the laughably disposable prime-time sitcom, and the dichotomy between comic elders and their brash..."

July 31, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

TV Eye

What's In and What's Out

"...Remember all those death knells for the sitcom? It looks like ABC has decided rumors of the..."

May 22, 2009 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

The Comedy Writer Is In

Stepping into The Office of Greg Daniels

"...The death knell for the TV sitcom has been tolling for some time now, but it's..."

Oct. 10, 2008 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Lakeview Terrace

By-the-book domestic thriller about the consequences of moving into a neighborhood lorded over by a rules-happy sociopath with a gun and a badge.

"...has been as a writer for the dreadful 1980s sitcom Kate & Allie. The result is a by-the-book domestic..."

Sept. 19, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The Future of Funny Has Already Happened

Welcome to Spaced, the cult British comedy with Star Wars in its eyes

"...making, but Spaced, the brilliant, hilarious, impossibly superfantastic British sitcom written by Jessica Hynes (Son of Rambow) and Simon..."

July 25, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Baby Mama

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler skewer motherhood but make sure that nothing gets terribly burnt.

"...her time on Saturday Night Live, her current hit sitcom 30 Rock, and Baby Mama and see the comic..."

April 25, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Penelope

Christina Ricci and James McAvoy star in this modern-day fairy tale about a girl who's cursed with a pig's snout for a nose but must find true love before the curse can be removed.

"...and Ronni Ancona. Whatever else might be said about sitcom writer Leslie Caveny’s feature-screenplay debut, Penelope, it can’t be..."

Feb. 29, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Josh Rosenblatt Has Seen the Future, and It Isn't Pretty

Magic eight-balling 2008, month by month

"...who was trying to keep them from burning a sitcom script he was working on during his lunch breaks..."

Jan. 3, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

The Ex

Zach Braff and Amanda Peet play husband and wife who deal with a new child and an old flame in this featherweight comedy that never steps outside its comfort zone.

"...would have thunk that the kid from the Eighties sitcom The Hogan Family could be this smart and funny?..."

May 18, 2007 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Failure to Launch

This date movie is dude-friendly by design, but all its attention to hairdos and cute outfits does not make up for its lack of romantic spark.

"...Ember have backgrounds in television, and the script is sitcom patter (“Deceptions are poisonous! Like margarine!”) with relentless alternation..."

March 10, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Waiting ...

This frequently offensive and doggedly disgusting film about working in the restaurant industry is technically inept and wholly crude.

"...doggedly disgusting film. The acting hails strictly from the sitcom-school of delivery, the film is technically inept (certain stories..."

Oct. 7, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

TV Eye

The return of Ricky Gervais; plus, Jennifer Perkins, Vicki Howell, and Austin among the Emmys

"...on one thing. When it comes to the beleaguered sitcom, Ricky Gervais might have saved it: first with The..."

Sept. 30, 2005 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

There's nothing like contemporary television to remind us how miserable we are

"...is a buff and bulimic police officer. Not traditional sitcom fare, to be sure, but one that a little..."

Aug. 12, 2005 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Cinemascope

My Education and Cue: the instrumental auteur theory

"...band explains their relationship in terms of a TV sitcom family: Purington is the smart teenage sister, Gibbons and..."

July 15, 2005 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Palindromes

Nominally the story of a 13-year-old girl who longs for a baby, Todd Solondz's latest is provocative, wicked, even bleakly funny, and ultimately empty.

"...family chortles as one, a laugh track to a sitcom from the deepest reaches of hell, as the children..."

May 6, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

TV Eye

Anyone needing evidence on why the network sitcom is failing should turn on their sets next week

"...Anyone needing evidence on why the network sitcom is failing should turn on their sets next week...."

March 18, 2005 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

Caution should rule when making comparisons to milestone series. Yet, the folks at ABC thought it clever to compare their new John Stamos series, Jake in Progress,' to one of my favorites in its promotion of the show

"...rest of us forget his run in that Eighties-era sitcom Full House. Stamos stars as celebrity publicist Jake Phillips,..."

March 11, 2005 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

OH! Mikey: Volumes 1-6

Leave it to the Japanese, arbiters of the bizarre, to find a way to make mannequins even scarier – by making them domestic

"...OH! Mikey is a sitcom involving not actors, but fashionably dressed mannequins. Be forewarned:..."

Jan. 28, 2005 Screens Review

Alfie

Jude Law's new Alfie is less tramp and more scamp: the modern metrosexual.

"...great toilet-seat debate, the screenplay (by Shyer and former sitcom writer Elaine Pope) has none of the original’s menace,..."

Nov. 5, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Team America: World Police

Trey Parker and Matt Stone tame the world with marionettes.

"...pre-9/11 days of the Bush administration with the faux sitcom That’s My Bush, or any number of wonderfully inflammatory..."

Oct. 15, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Shaun of the Dead

This "romantic comedy … with zombies" has a note-perfect mix of humor, horror, love, and death.

"...Pegg are the creative team behind the cult BBC4 sitcom Spaced, which pairs an obvious love for the tropes..."

Sept. 24, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Valentín

Big-hearted Argentinean import sees life from a young boy's perspective.

"...calling to mind Jeremy Piven’s short-lived (but seriously lamented) sitcom that bore the aforementioned cherubim’s moniker. Call me a..."

July 16, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

DVD Roundup

"...as a Region 2 PAL import, this BBC Four sitcom from Edgar Wright, whose debut feature, Shaun of the..."

May 21, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Short Cuts

South Austin's best-kept video-store secret might not be such a secret for much longer

"...weeks watching nothing but the excruciatingly cool BBC 4 sitcom Spaced over and over and over, all because Dannie..."

April 23, 2004 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Jersey Girl

Ben Affleck plays a widower dad in this family dramedy from an uncustomarily sweet Kevin Smith.

"...career" would ever score a laugh outside of a sitcom studio audience. Structurally, the film is a drag, and..."

March 26, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

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