Category Archives: comedy

“Lisa Frankenstein” Love Never Dies… It Just Gets Weird

comedy, fantasy, horror, , , , ,

You may consider Lisa Frankenstein the funniest, goriest undead romance seen all year. 

A Monstrous Teen Romance

Surviving high school is hard enough on its own—add in the trauma of your mom being ax-murdered in your living room, and it becomes virtually impossible to cope. 

She Built the Perfect Boyfriend

Just ask Lisa Swallows, played by Kathryn Newton, the awkward 17-year-old trying to adjust to a new school and a new life after her mother’s death and her father’s hasty remarriage. 

Despite the unwavering support offered by plucky cheerleader step-sister Taffy, played by Liza Soberano, Lisa only finds solace in the abandoned cemetery near her house. She finds her commonality with a young man who died in 1837, tending his grave. 

Kathryn Newton stars as Lisa Swallows and Cole Sprouse as The Creature in a Focus Features release. Credit: Michele K. Short / © 2023 FOCUS FEATURES LLC.

A Love Story Unearthed

But everything changes one dark and stormy night in the fall of 1989. After being humiliated, Lisa makes a desperate and heartfelt wish—to be with the young man in the world beyond. When a monstrous-looking corpse, played by Cole Sprouse, turns up the following evening, Lisa realizes a cosmic misunderstanding has happened. 

Prom Night Meets the Afterlife

Still, she feels obligated to help the poor soul regain his humanity, and she embarks on a quest to breathe new life into her long-dead companion. All she needs to succeed is some freshly harvested body parts and Taffy’s broken tanning bed.

Cole Sprouse stars as The Creature and Kathryn Newton as Lisa Swallows in a Focus Features release. Credit: Michele K. Short / © 2023 FOCUS FEATURES LLC.

Synths, Screams, and Sweethearts

A genuinely electrifying new horror-comedy, coming-of-rage romance, comes from Oscar-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody. The film also stars Carla Gugino, Joe Chrestnd, and Henry Eikenberry.

Reanimated Romance Gone Wrong

Director Zelda Williams makes her feature debut with the wildly inventive film, produced by Cody and Mason Novick under his MXN Entertainment banner.

“Scrambled”Hilarious and Heartfelt Journey

comedy, drama, , , , ,

Overview of Scrambled

Written and directed by Leah McKendrick, Scrambled is about a quintessential eternal bridesmaid, Nellie Robinson, played by Leah McKendrick. She constantly finds herself between weddings, baby showers, and bad dates. 

When she feels like the clock is ticking and faces bleak romantic prospects, Nellie freezes her eggs — setting her on an empowering journey to a brave new world where she ultimately discovers “the one” she’s looking for might be herself.  

Characters and Cast

The supporting cast includes Ego Nwodim, André Santini, Adam Rodríguez, Laura Cerón, and Clancy Brown.

Singer, actress and filmmaker, McKendrick’s films include:

Bad Moms

M.F.A.

Baby Steps

A Nice Girl Like You

Organize Chaos

“The American Society of Magical Negroes” Sharp Satirical Comedy

adventure, comedy, , , , , ,

Produced, written and directed by Kobi Libii, The American Society of Magical Negroes follows Aren, played by Justice Smith. He joins a magical group of negroes whose mission is to help keep white people happy and comfortable. That way, Black people stay safe.

Forbidden Romance

Aren receives training to effectively soothe white discomfort. One challenge is Jason, a nervous white coworker, as he navigates his blossoming feelings for Lizzie. She also works at the company.

Price of Staying Silent

Everything seems fine until Aren follows his heart instead of what the ASOMN tells him to do. He finally pushes back and asserts his desire to exist on his terms.

The ending has an appropriate twist discovered when Aren reunites with Lizzie.

The satire premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival.

The cast includes Justice Smith, David Alan Grier, An-Li Bogan, Drew Tarver, Michaela Watkins, Aisha Hinds, Tim Baltz, Rupert Friend and Nicole Byer.

“Role Play” A Killer Night Out Comedy

adventure, comedy, ,

Thomas Vincent directed Role Play, a comedy that features an all-star cast including Kaley Cuoco, David Oyelowo, Connie Nielsen, and Bill Nighy.

Kaley Cuoco and Bill Nighy

The Night That Changes Everything

The screenplay, co-written by Andrew Baldwin and Seth W. Owen, depicts a young couple, played by Cuoco and Oyelowo, whose lives take a dramatic turn when they uncover each other’s past secrets.

David Oyelowo

A 2024 action-comedy follows a suburban couple whose anniversary role-play celebration goes off the rails. The wife has a secret life as an assassin, and her husband soon realizes it. He gets pulled into the fray.

Final Thoughts

A story that begins as a game in a hotel bar turns into a precarious murder mystery. It’s so refreshing to see Oyelowo in a comedic role, away from his more serious roles in Selma and A United Kingdom.

Fey Adds a Twist to “Mean Girls” Trailer, Posters, Featurettes

comedy, remakes, teenagers, , , , , , , , ,

Tina Fey brings a fresh take on Mean Girls, the modern classic.

Tina Fey plays Ms. Norbury in Mean Girls from Paramount Pictures. Photo: Jojo Whilden/Paramount © 2023 Paramount Pictures.

Co-directed by Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr., the story follows new student Cady Heron, who is welcomed into the top social food chain by the elite group of popular girls called “The Plastics.”

Bebe Wood plays Gretchen, Renee Rapp plays Regina, and Avantika plays Karen in Mean Girls from Paramount Pictures. Photo: Jojo Whilden/Paramount © 2023 Paramount Pictures.

The conniving queen bee, Regina George, rules the group. She uses her minions, Gretchen and Karen, to help deliver dirty deeds. However, when Cady makes the major misstep of falling for Regina’s ex-boyfriend Aaron Samuels, she finds herself prey in Regina’s crosshairs.

Christopher Briney plays Aaron in Mean Girls from Paramount Pictures. Photo: Jojo Whilden/Paramount © 2023 Paramount Pictures.

As Cady sets to take down the group’s apex predator with the help of her outcast friends Janis and Damian, she must learn how to stay true to herself while navigating the most cutthroat jungle of all: high school.

“The Fall Guy” Trailers, Clips and Featurette, Poster

action, comedy, thriller,

Inspired by the 1980s hit TV series, real stuntman and director David Leitch helms an all-star cast in The Fall Guy. We follow a stuntman, played by Ryan Gosling, who, like everyone in the stunt community, gets blown up, shot, crashed, thrown through windows and dropped from the highest of heights, all for our entertainment.

And now, fresh off an almost career-ending accident, this working-class hero has to track down a missing movie star, solve a conspiracy and try to win back the love of his life, played by Emily Blunt, while still doing his day job.

Leitch is the blockbuster director of Bullet Train, Deadpool 2, Atomic Blonde and Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw and the producer of John Wick, Nobody and Violent Night. The Fall Guy is his most personal film because he’s an original stuntman. It’s his love letter to the under-appreciated crew in this supposedly hilarious, hard-driving, apex-action thriller.

Gosling stars as Colt Seavers, a battle-scarred stuntman who left the business a year earlier to focus on his physical and mental health. He is drafted back into service when the star of a mega-budget studio movie directed by his ex, Jody Moreno, played by Blunt, goes missing.

While the film’s ruthless producer, played by Hannah Waddingham, maneuvers to keep the disappearance of star Tom Ryder, played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson, a secret from the studio and the media, Colt performs the film’s most outrageous stunts while futilely trying to charm his way back into Jody’s good graces.

But as the mystery around the missing star deepens, Colt becomes entangled in a sinister, criminal plot that will push him to the edge of a fall more dangerous than any stunt.

The Fall Guy also stars Winston Duke and Stephanie Hsu.

“American Fiction” Trailers, Poster, Featurettes, and Images

based on a book, comedy, drama, , , , , , ,
Jeffrey Wright stars as Thelonious “Monk” Ellison in writer/director Cord Jefferson’s AMERICAN FICTION An Orion Pictures Release Photo credit: Claire Folger © 2023 Orion Releasing LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Written for the screen and directed by Cord Jefferson, American Fiction is a hilarious twist on the obsession with reducing people to outrageous stereotypes.

Sterling K. Brown stars as Cliff an Orion Pictures Release Photo credit: Claire Folger © 2023 Orion Releasing LLC. All Rights Reserved.


Based upon the novel Erasure by Percival Everett, Jeffrey Wright stars as Monk, a frustrated novelist fed up with the establishment profiting from “Black” entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes.

Eddie Murphy in the Holiday Comedy “Candy Cane Lane”

adventure, comedy, holiday movies, ,

Reginald Hudlin directs Eddie Murphy and a stellar cast in this holiday comedy adventure, Candy Cane Lane. It’s about a man on a mission to win his neighborhood’s annual Christmas home decoration contest.

Eddie Murphy as ‘Chris Carver’ and Tracee Ellis Ross as ‘Carol Carver’ Photo: Claudette Barius © Amazon Content Services LLC

After Chris, played by Murphy, inadvertently makes a deal with a naughty elf named Pepper, played by Jillian Bell. He wants to better his chances of winning the annual holiday decoration contest. Pepper casts a magic spell that brings the 12 Days of Christmas to life and wreaks havoc on the whole town.

Eddie Murphy as Chris Carver, Jillian Bell as Pepper, and Madison Thomas as Holly Carver Photo: Claudette Barius © Amazon Content Services LLC

Chris, his wife Carol, played by Tracee Ellis Ross, and their three children race against time to break Pepper’s spell and save the holidays. It’s a battle of deviously magical characters and saves Christmas for everyone.

Eddie Murphy as ‘Chris Carver’ Photo: Claudette Barius © Amazon Content Services LLC

Apple TV+ “Lessons in Chemistry” Trailer

Apple TV, based on a book, comedy, drama, , , ,

Apple TV+ brings us the eight-episode and limited series Lessons in Chemistry. Brie Larson is the executive producer and stars based on the best-selling novel by author, science editor and copywriter Bonnie Garmus.

Set in the early 1950s, the series follows Elizabeth Zott, played by Larson, whose dream of being a scientist they put on hold in a patriarchal society. When Elizabeth finds herself fired from her lab, she accepts a job as a host on a TV cooking show and sets out to teach a nation of overlooked housewives — and the men who are suddenly listening — a lot more than recipes.

Lewis Pullman, Aja Naomi King, Stephanie Koenig, Kevin Sussman, Patrick Walker, and Thomas Mann are starring alongside Larson.