Category: Comedy

Happy! – Season 1, Episode 4: “Year of the Horse”

On By C.H. NewellIn Christopher Meloni, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Happy!, Medina Senghore, Patton Oswalt, Season 1Leave a comment

Amanda continues her investigation with Dt. McCarthy. Nick and Happy track down info in Chinatown.

Happy! – Season 1, Episode 3: “When Christmas Was Christmas”

On By C.H. NewellIn Chris Meloni, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Happy!, Medina Senghore, Patton Oswalt, Season 1, SyfyLeave a comment

Nick and Happy keep up their search. Amanda gets proactive in finding her daughter.

Happy! – Season 1, Episode 2: “What Smiles Are For”

On By C.H. NewellIn Christopher Meloni, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Happy!, Patton Oswalt, Season 1, SyfyLeave a comment

Nick wants to leave the city, get away. But Happy needs to convince him otherwise.

Happy! – Season 1, Episode 1: “Saint Nick”

On By C.H. NewellIn Chris Meloni, Comedy, Crime, Grant Morrison, Happy!, Season 1, SyfyLeave a comment

Former cop, current hitman Nick Sax winds up in the hospital, pursued by the mob, and a little girl's imaginary friend - a blue, flying unicorn named Happy.

Meta-Horror in BEHIND THE MASK: THE RISE OF LESLIE VERNON

On By C.H. NewellIn Angela Goethals, Comedy, Film, Horror, Mockumentary, Nathan Baesel, Robert Englund, Scott Wilson, Slasher Horror, Thriller2 Comments

One of the best intertextual horror films out there: a deconstructionist look at the slasher sub-genre.

American Anxieties & Paranoia in THE ‘BURBS

On By C.H. NewellIn Bruce Dern, Carrie Fisher, Comedy, Corey Feldman, Film, Henry Gibson, Horror, Mystery, Rick Ducommun, Thriller, Tom Hanks1 Comment

Dante's film, for all its laughs, is an important satire about suburban living in America during the 1980s.

Too Much Camp in HOUSE II: THE SECOND STORY

On By C.H. NewellIn Arye Gross, Bill Maher, Comedy, Fantasy, Film, Horror, Jonathan Stark, Royal DanoLeave a comment

Sometimes sequels improve on the original, sometimes they're only a bit better. Other times, they're rougher than that.

DAVE MADE A MAZE; Or, the Artist Matures

On By C.H. NewellIn Adventure, Bill Watterson, Comedy, Film, Horror, Meera Rohit Kumbhani, Nick Thune, Steven SearsLeave a comment

Dave is an artist, worried he'll never create anything significant. That is, until he makes a cardboard maze which gets out of control.