Comedy Posts

Of all Jackie Chan’s films, why would I choose to discuss 1997’s Mr. Nice Guy, one of his mid-period and largely forgotten starrers? Why would I skip past the films that made audiences sit up and pay attention to his unique, comedy …

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”—Aristotle “I wake up in the morning and I piss excellence.”—Ricky Bobby Y’all, I love this movie. It played a huge role in Mac&…

*Note: this week's blog post is a little different.  I'm posting in a paper I wrote in graduate school (from November of 2000!) on the play Much Ado About Nothing, but be assured--it's still germane to the film as well :)   The first thi…

T.S. Eliot is my favorite poet.  It’s not only that I love his command of imagery and the subjects that he tends toward[1], but his rhythms and choice of language are often perfect to me.  He has lines that, apropos of nothing, live …

I am a massive fan of music and a huge fan of movies.  Putting music and movies together is even better than the idea to combine chocolate and peanut butter.  Movies trade in emotion and the right song in the right place can amplify those …

In the 80s, MTV was awesome.  They played tons of videos of music you actually wanted to hear, at least if you were me.  Michael Jackson and Madonna were on heavy rotation, but it wasn’t the same song over and over again ad nauseum (…

I’m the kind of person who finds it very easy to get lost in fiction.  Books and movies both.  I live in my head a lot of the time anyway, so when I read or watch something that I find very engaging, the world around me disappears.&n…

When Harry Met Sally stands tall as my second favorite romantic comedy of all time (my number 1 pick being Moonstruck), with everything being a solid 10 in each and every department. I would not even know how to begin tallying the total number of ti…

As childless adults living far from our family members, Christmases at Chez Macey are pretty chill nowadays.  That’s not to say we don’t commit full force to the Christmas spirit; both John and I are huge fans of the holidays. …

Remakes have been around for as long as humans have walked the Earth, and I like to imagine that even prior to the arrival of humankind, amoebas and other life passed around the same stories as well.  Storytelling is in our DNA, whether you are…