Comedy

Scream

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  • Title: Scream (1996)
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The brainchild of Kevin Williamson, 1996’s Scream enjoyed playing with the concepts of a classic slasher flick often satirizing them when still  using them to tell the story of Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) and her friends dealing with a serial killer in a Halloween costume murdering their way through their small California town. Director Wes Craven hits the right notes to stage and sell the concept for maximum effect while the characters often remark on the various aspects of horror movies culminating in the movie-obsessed Randy (Jamie Kennedy) summarizing rules which the franchise would live by for decades to come.

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The Day The Earth Blew Up

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  • Title: The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
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Your nostalgia for classic Looney Tunes cartoons may influence your enjoyment in The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie. Warner Bros., who has owned the various properties since the 1940s, hasn’t had the best luck in adapting characters from the animated shorts into full features over the years. The latest, and first (not counting the Space Jam sequel) in over 20 years, casts Daffy Duck and Porky Pig (both voiced by Eric Bauza) as brothers out to save their home from threats such as the H.O.A. and aliens. Honestly, the H.O.A. is the scarier of the two antagonists (although the aliens allow for things to get quite wacky over the second-half of the film).

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The Great Race

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  • Title: The Great Race
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Throwback Thursday takes us to the most expensive comedy ever made at the time it was released and featured what has come to be known as the greatest pie fight ever captured on-screen. With 1965’s The Great Race director Blake Edwards (known for his over-the-top comedies) delivers his love letter to silent films in a battle of good and evil across the globe. Edwards fills, one might even suggest overfills, the film with silent movie gags and tropes including a ballroom brawl, sword fights, characters mistaken for lookalikes, slapstick and cartoonish humor (including the villains blowing up), and running gags.

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Running Point – Pilot

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  • Title: Running Point – Pilot
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In what feels like Netflix’s version of a sitcom (with broad comedy and a concerted effort to seem edgy by shoehorning in as much swearing as possible), the “Pilot” episode of Running Point introduces us to Isla Gordon (Kate Hudson) as the least fucked up member of her family, a family that runs a professional basketball team. Thrown into the role of president after her eldest brother’s (Justin Theroux) cocaine bender becomes national news, Isla finally gets to put her basketball IQ to use much to the chagrin of her other brothers (Scott MacArthur and Drew Tarver) jealous they weren’t tapped for the position. The opening episode is mostly about introducing the characters, setting up a new path for Isla and the Waves, and also teasing one more surprise for the family which will be sprung in the season’s second episode.

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Wizards Beyond Waverly Place – Wizards Just Wand to Have Fun

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  • Title: Wizards Beyond Waverly Place – Wizards Just Wand to Have Fun
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Items from a wizard prank site cause problems for multiple characters in “Wizards Just Wand to Have Fun.” Meaning to send a stink box to  Justin (David Henrie) after he confiscated her wand, Billie (Janice LeAnn Brown) accidentally sends a shrink box shrinks him down leading to all kinds of shenanigans with the pair trying to hide that fact from his boss (Darien Sills-Evans). Finding the site, Roman (Alkaio Thiele) orders a muscle-shirt to stand up to some school bullies. However, when his new power goes to his head it falls to Winter (Taylor Cora) to bring him back to reality.

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