Shakespeare invented a lot of words, such as "eyeball," "swagger," and even "puking," but I’m pretty sure “noogie” wasn’t one of them. Still, it doesn’t feel out of place in The Old Globe’s ...

Young people are an endangered species on TV these days. Broadcast TV has given up on them entirely, and even cable and streaming shows rarely focus on people in their 20s unless it's through a sci-fi ...

Drac is back just in time for San Diego's spooky season at The Old Globe, in the fast-paced, campy, silly, and sexy spoof “Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors.” Dare I say, it’s a fang-tastic time at the ...

Over the past five years, seeing a straight-up comedy that puts big laughs first and foremost has become a rarity. Gone are the days when filmmakers like Judd Apatow and Adam McKay were given big ...

It is probably too much hyperbole to call Sony’s Anaconda the funniest movie of the year, but for my money it really is. It initially started out to be the studio’s desire to remake or “reimagine” its ...

Nearly 15 years ago, Steve Carell’s farewell episode of The Office aired on NBC and marked the end of an undeniably iconic era in comedy. Since playing Michael Scott, Carell has primarily pursued film ...

The stars play the sister and father of rival brides fighting over the same venue in a big-screen-worthy comedy from 'The Five-Year Engagement' writer-director Nicholas Stoller. As Jim, Ferrell is the ...

One of the unexpected pleasures of this year’s vast SXSW slate of movies is Bunny, a kind of zany comic throwback to extreme indie New York City-centric movies that find a manic energy and rhythm that ...

In the first Black women buddy comedy since the Robert Townsend-directed B.A.P.S., (1997) One Of Them Days gives us exactly what we need in two Black female leads—dynamic chemistry, laugh-out-loud ...

Though Hugh Jackman toplines the human cast of Kyle Balda's rural whodunnit, the film belongs to its digital but delightful ovine ensemble, voiced by Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Bryan Cranston and others.