#Comedy Review

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WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS (2014)

A cute mockumentary about vampires living in New Zealand. Watch it with friends, watch it alone, watch it because you watch the series, just watch it. This movie is a treat.

⭐⭐⭐⭐.5

Trigger Warning Mild Homophobia 

We meet our gang of four vampires Viago, Vladislav, Deacon, and Petyr. They are living together in New Zealand after having all turned into vampires in their own various times in their own various ways. Deacon’s familiar, Jackie, brings them some humans as prey and Petyr goes a little rogue and turns one of them into a vampire so we have a new addition to the group named Nick. Nick brings in his human friend, Stu, who the gang likes better than Nick! Stu teaches them all kinds of modern human things like the internet and how to text. The boys are fascinated by both the tech and by Stu! There is a bit of a problem with Nick though in the fact that he won’t shut the fuck up about being a vampire. He announces it to almost everyone he meets which is a big no-no. Nick also finds out he cannot eat human food anymore and decides he is so over being a vampire.

Deacon goes to Jackie’s house to give her instructions but she finds out that Nick is now a vampire and is very upset. Her whole reasoning for being a familiar is so she can be turned into a vampire and Nick just gets turned before her? But then, disaster strikes! Petyr is killed in a sunlight incident! A vampire hunter broke into the basement letting light in and while Petyr was able to kill the hunter with his coffin lid, Petyr was ultimately undone by the burning rays of the evil sun. When Nick arrives he realizes the hunter was a man he revealed his identity to while about town. Nick led a vampire hunter back to the house and got Petyr killed! For this crime (and for wearing a jacket far too similar to the one Deacon wears) Nick is exiled from the group. 

Several months later the boys are invited to a special ball but Vladislav’s arch rival will be the guest of honor there which really upsets our boy Vladislav. Viago and Deacon end up going together and they meet Jackie there who has been turned into a vampire by Nick. Nick is also there and he brought Stu. This was a very bad idea though because there is a room of hungry vampires who turn on them and want to eat Stu almost immediately. Vladislav shows up to try and fight his rival but it is Stu who ends up stabbing a vampire so they can escape the ball in one piece. They run into misfortune as they are leaving though because they encounter the group of werewolves they met before but this time the moon is full and they all transformed and they disemboweled Stu! Oh, no! Nick is very sad his friend is dead. Deacon gives him a nice pep talk about how everyone Nick loves will die…

In the end, Stu is alive! He turned into a werewolf and that is how he survived! Hey, whatever works! Viago finally approached his lady love that he had been stalking the whole movie and they are together now (and she's a vampire so it is forever). Vladislav gets back with his arch rival who just turned out to be his ex and he quickly remembers why they broke up in the first place. The after credits scene has Deacon doing vampire mind tricks on us, erasing our minds of us ever having watched the movie… Good thing I wrote this down!

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Comedy Review: Margaret Cho

Fri. March 14, 2025 @ Wilbur Theatre (Boston, MA)

In Margaret Cho's 2015 comedy special PsyCHO, she mentioned the ABC-TV show Fresh Off the Boat being a new (at the time) network TV sitcom about an Asian-American family and how she created the first Asian-American family TV show All-American Girl (ABC 1994-1995) and how they had to wait an entire generation for a new one to begin. She was being self-deprecating, but I was actually a fan of her short-lived sitcom. I had seen Cho on a few stand-up TV shows and thought she was pretty funny, so I liked the idea of a sitcom loosely based on her own experience growing up in San Francisco in a Korean family as a hip single woman balancing relationships, friends, and her family's business was a showcase for her comedic voice. I was especially a big fan of the Pulp Fiction parody episode that featured Quentin Tarantino as her boyfriend (the two are friends and dated in the early 90s). When the series was canceled, like a lot of comedians who work through their personal struggles, it gave her so much material to joke about. But to her point, in some ways, she did blaze a trail for future Asian-American sitcoms like Fresh Off the Boat. She has always been very frank and graphic (almost too graphic at times) about sex. In one of her famous specials she said "Am I gay? Am I straight? I'm just slutty! Where's my parade?" She's popped up in a number of TV shows and movies (including John Woo's Face / Off), but she has remained a consistently solid stand-up for decades now. In addition to podcasts, books, comedy specials and albums, she has also released some music albums, including the recently released Lucky Gift. She's currently on tour and I was lucky enough to catch her at the Wilbur Theatre.

tour poster

There were a number of LOL moments of Cho's set. One of the things about being at her show is that she is very funny, but more than that - you are laughing at the fact that she just said what she said!?! The entire audience is having that same reaction! She did not hold back about her disdain for the Trump administration either. I was reminded of something Seth Meyers once said in an interview, about how there is a fine line between laughter and "claptor", which is when the audience isn't so much laughing because they think your joke is funny but clapping because they agree with what you're saying. In the Trump era, it would be easy to rely on "claptor" and just say "Trump Sucks", but the really sharp comedians like Meyers, Stephen Colbert and Colin Jost are trying to still find the humor in the news. Cho did just that too! She talked about how we used to hate and complain about Republicans like Sarah Palin. "Now, she's basically a Democrat!. George W. Bush, please come back" She also did her famous impression of her mother too. The set was very funny and also super graphic (i.e. I'll never look at a snicker bar the same again!?!). 30 years on, it's great to see Cho is still able to keep the audience laughing for an hour +! Especially for an audience in Boston, this was a show we all needed in 2025!

Cho onstage at the Wilbur

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American Fiction On Apple TV Review | The G.A.B. (SAF Segment)

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YT Link

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Podcast Links

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Sundance 2024 Film Review: Stress Positions ★★★1/2

Theda Hammel returns to Sundance following her 2022 TV pilot My Trip To Spain, with her feature debut as writer-director-composer-editor and star, Stress Positions, playing in the festival’s US Dramatic Competition. With its dry, sometimes uncomfortable tone, that easily shifts from offbeat to satirical to absurd to farcical, this deliciously dark, thought-provoking comedy sees her deliver on the…

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Episode 362: Grumpier Old Men (1995)

#Movie Theater Time Machine #podcast continues Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon month with a #review of "Grumpier Old Men". For more, visit www.movietheatertimemachine.com

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December 1988.

The Vancouver Sun reviews a new program called The Kids in the Hall

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These are the vibes I THE WHYTE PYTHON WORLD TOUR brings to the function bookshelf.

It's Spinal Tap meets Austin Powers.

It's an 80s themed wrestling duo alarming the interviewer.

It's Lorelei Gilmore Reading THE DIRT.

It's Ozzy Osbourne on reality TV.

It's "The Wind of Change" being used as a political battle cry.

Get ready for the world tour...

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THE BABYSITTER (2017)

A fun and new story told in a nicely paced way. Very good acting, the child especially, you really connect with the kid and root for him. Samara Weaving does an excellent job in her dual role as babysitter and… other. 

⭐⭐⭐⭐

This is one of your classic “the babysitter turns out to be an ageless baddie” story. You know the ones. Cole is a little dorky kid (and who doesn’t love a little dorky kid, come ON people?) and he is getting picked on at school for still having a babysitter, that is until they see how hot Bee is. Cole’s folks go out of town so he needs a babysitter for the evening and wouldn’t you know Bee is the one for him. They get along like a house fire though and things seem more than normal, exceptional really. That is until Bee offers the tween a double shot to help him fall asleep. Not strange at all. Cole feeds it to a plant but pretends to drink up, wanting to impress Bee. This is the beginning of the weirdness. Next after Cole is in bed Bee invites friends over, now as an old Babysitter I can firmly say this is a big no-no. The only thing I would do once the kids were asleep was raid the snacks they weren’t allowed to eat and then watch The N (does this age me too much?).

Anyway, Bee and her friends are playing Truth or Dare with a Spin the Bottle twist and it is Bee’s turn and she is tasked with kissing the whole group and when she gets to our odd man out (who literally says “I’m not really a part of the group”) she kisses him but then stabs him in the head with two knives so there is certainly something fishy going on. Cole of course is spying on this whole thing from the staircase and is horrified. The hot teens collect the sacrificial blood in two chalices and start talking about Satan, like, okay, not the direction I thought this was going but I guess that's just how Samara Weaving movies go sometimes. Random Satan. Though this came out before Ready or Not.

The hot teens go up to get innocent blood from Cole and he pretends to sleep through it but Bee catches him and they tie him up. Not before the cops are called though! And then a big mistake because both cops get killed and one of the teens gets shot and it looks like right in the heart but I guess it wasn’t because she keeps kicking for a while. Cole is able to escape and he pushes one of the boys down the stairs which kills him, yikes! Next he goes into the crawlspace and lights a fire that takes out another teen, wack! Then he is face to face with the quarterback who is oddly inspiring but it ends up okay because he dies thanks to his own hubris.

Finally it is just down to Cole and Bee, Cole escapes next door to the girl he has a crush on. He is able to hide her and himself from Bee who now has a fucking shotgun and he scored a kiss from his crush (which terrified him because he thought it meant he was about to get stabbed). He makes it back to his house and the chick who was shot is still there and kicking which is wack and a half but Bee shoots her head clean off for Cole, saving him. You kinda think that she's good now but she has already shown herself as a witch or whatever she is, The Big Bad. Cole threatens to set her book on fire and she tries to talk him down but he is too smart. He even sends a car into the living room pinning her down. They have one last talk, it is beautiful and sad, Cole really loved Bee.

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We have another interview with one of the cast members of Space: Above and Beyond! This time we had a nice conversation with Joel de la Fuente about his time on the show and so much more.

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ATTENTION guys, gals and ghouls who love horror and cheese fests listen up!!!! There's this underrated youtube channel called SHOCKORAMA that covers the production and plot of these movies and a super fun way

Just wanted to let you know! They're also my husband so that's cool too!!

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"ofmd s2 sucks because it's fan service" reviewer do you also go to mcdonalds and complain when they serve you a big mac? its a silly queer pirate show. it does what it says on the tin

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2023: The Year in Green's Party

This was a historic year for my blog as it turned 10! In Jan. 2013 I began this blog as a way to share my thoughts on pop culture and since then I've gotten to do things I never even imagined would be possible: interviewing filmmakers, actors, musicians, authors and more; reviewing movies, music, concerts, books, and theater; covering conventions and film festivals; and connecting with fans who also have their hands on the pulse of pop culture at the moment and it's history. This was hands down one of my best years yet! Here are just a few of the highlights:

the many faces of Green's Party

Retweets and social media: Tom Petty's website included a pull quote from my Nov. 2022 album review of Live at the Fillmore 1997 on their website page for the album; Ondi Timoner and her doc Last Flight Home shared my interview with her on Twitter; the Video Archives Podcast liked and shared my Best Podcasts of 2022 list on Twitter; Cadence13 and David Spade of the Fly on the Wall podcast liked my Best Podcasts of 2022 lists on Twitter; TV Guidance Counselor host Ken Reid liked and shared my Best Podcasts of 2022 list on Twitter; Completely Conspicuous host Jay Kumar liked my Best Podcasts of 2022 list on Twitter; U2 Daily Tour News shared my U2 movie review and album review on their daily newsletter and on Twitter; the Video Archives Podcast liked and retweeted my Quentin Tarantino birthday post; Andy Summers shared my concert review on his social media; the Chasing Chasing Amy team shared my movie review on Twitter; X (the band) shared my concert review on their Facebook; the There Was No Alternative team shared my interview with author Jeff Gomez on their Facebook; and Tremolo Productions liked and retweeted my Congrats to them on 20 Feet From Stardom being added to the National Film Registry on Twitter.

Exene Cervenka and I backstage at the X concert

Interviews: I got to interview a number of entertainers I find fascinating including director Ondi Timoner, musician Glen Matlock, Exene Cervenka of X, author Michael Azerrad, author Jeff Gomez, and Pete Stahl of Scream!

me hanging with Indiana Jones

Movie Reviews: I got to review loads of movies including One Fine Morning, Marlowe, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, my annual guide to the Oscar Nominated Short Films, Scream VI, Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming with Dave Letterman, Jimmie and Stevie Ray Vaughan: Brothers in Blues, Spinning Gold, Air, Little Richard: I Am Everything, Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie, Master Gardener, Lynch/Oz, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, The YouTube Effect, Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning: Part One, Oppenheimer, Chasing Chasing Amy, Stop Making Sense re-release, Flora and Son, The Holdovers, The Stones and Brian Jones, Silent Night, The Sacrifice Game, and Godard Cinema!

Album Reviews: I got to review tons of albums including Shonen Knife's Our Best Place, Inhaler's Cuts & Bruises, Philip Selway's Strange Dance and Live at Evolution Studios, U2's Songs of Surrender, Mudhoney's Plastic Eternity, The Kinks' The Journey - Part 1 and The Journey - Part 2, Wilco's Crosseyed Strangers: An Alternate Take on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and Cousin, Iggy and the Stooges' Raw Power RSD Essential release, The Rolling Stones' Beggars Banquet RSD edition and Hackney Diamonds, Galen & Paul's Can We Do Tomorrow Another Day?, Hollywood Vampires' Live in Rio, Tommy Stinson's Cowboys in the Campfire's Wronger, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' Council Skies, Alice Cooper's Killer and School's Out Deluxe Editions and Road, Extreme's Six, the Asteroid City soundtrack, Deaf Charlie's Catastrophic Metamorphic, Wham!'s The Singles: Echoes from the Edge of Heaven, Brian May and Friends' Star Fleet Sessions, Neil Young's Chrome Dreams, Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros' Live at Acton Town Hall, London, Aerosmith's Greatest Hits, Speedy Ortiz's Rabbit Rabbit and Major Arcana (10th Anniversary Edition), Courtney Barnett's End of the Day (Music from Anonymous Club), Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense Expanded Edition Remaster, Huey Lewis and the News's Sports 40th Anniversary Edition, Will Butler + Sister Squares' Will Butler + Sister Squares, The Replacements' Tim (Let It Bleed) Edition, The Breeders Last Splash 30th Anniversary Original Analog Edition, Ringo Starr's Rewind Forward, Haim's Days are Gone 10th anniversary edition, Chris Shiflett's Lost at Sea, Duff McKagan's Lighthouse, Prince and the New Power Generation's Diamonds and Pearls Super Deluxe Edition, Snail Mail's Valentine (Demos), Jimi Hendrix Experience's Hollywood Bowl: August 18, 1967, Scream's DC Special, The Beatles' 1962-1966 and 1967-1970, Pearl Jam's Vs. 30th anniversary edition, and The Black Crowes' The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion Box Set.

TV Reviews: This year I branched out and got to review some TV shows including Lucky Hank, John Carpenter's Suburban Screams, Geddy Lee Asks: Are Bassists Human Too?, and John Lennon: Murder Without a Trial.

my friend Ron and I at Boston Calling in May

Concert Reviews: I wrote about my day at the 2023 Boston Calling festival and I also got to cover concerts from Andy Summers, X, Sting, The Breeders, and Scream. I also started a new feature called Concert Pics, where I share pics from concerts I attended but didn't review.

Blu-ray Reviews: I got to review some blu-rays including Project: Alf, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, The Lost Weekend: A Love Story, and We Are Not Alone.

Book Reviews: I got to review and cover some books including Stewart Copeland's The Police Diaries, Michael Azerrad's The Amplified Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana, and Jeff Gomez' There Was No Alternative.

my friend Jenn and I at Jagged Little Pill

Theater Reviews: I got to review Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill when it played in Boston!

Comedy Reviews: I got to cover The State reunion show in Boston!

me at the Boston Underground Film Festival in March 2023

me with Mr. Sam J. Jones at 2023 MusicCon Collectibles Extravaganza

Film Festivals, Conventions and Events: In February I got to cover Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Man of the Year presentation to Bob Odenkirk and Woman of the Year to Jennifer Coolidge; the 2023 Northeast Comic Con Spring Edition; the 2023 Boston Underground Film Festival (my first time covering them since 2019); the 2023 Salem Horror Fest; the 2023 Independent Film Festival Boston; the 2023 MusicCon Collectibles Extravaganza; I got to cover the Stop Making Sense reunion Q&A simulcast from TIFF, IFFBoston's 2023 Fall Focus mini-fest, and the 2023 Northeast Comic Con Fall Edition.

Me seeing Stop Making Sense on the big screen!

Stray Observations:

I got to cover Hollywood Vampires collectively and individually: In June I got to review Hollywood Vampires' album Live in Rio and I got to see them live in July, I also saw Joe Perry solo in April and I got to review Aerosmith's Greatest Hits in August, and I got to review Alice Cooper's Deluxe Editions of Killer and School's Out in June and his newest album Road in August.

It was a sad year for Gen X: in May MTV News announced they were ceasing operations; and there was also the passing of Andy Rourke of The Smiths, Sinead O'Connor, and Paul Reubens, all staples of the 80s and 90s :(

The Police never ended: It's as if I got to see a Police reunion this year because I got to cover guitarist Andy Summers' concert in July, singer / bassist Sting's concert in September, and while I didn't see drummer Stewart Copeland live, I did get to cover his book The Police Diaries in October!

Tough year for physical media fans like me between Netflix ending it's DVD by mail service and Best Buy announcing they're going to stop selling DVDs. Time to go to my local library more often for DVDs and blu-rays!

...And the Biggest Postings and News of the Year on Green's Party:

1/2/23: This blog turned 10! It feels like I'm just getting started in some ways!

1/20/23: A very rare clip of The Eric and Mike Show, the cable access TV show I co-hosted and co-produced as a teen, surfaced online.

Jan. - Mar. 2023: I rolled out my Best of 2022 lists in time for awards season!

3/15/23: I had my 3000th post on this blog!

4/18/23: After Netflix announced they would be discontinuing their DVD by mail service, I wrote my remembrance of Netflix DVD.

6/26/23: I shared my thoughts on the Best of 2023 so far.

9/14/23: I got to cover the re-release of Stop Making Sense, the re-release of Talking Heads' soundtrack album, and the simulcast of the Talking Heads' reunion Q&A at TIFF with Spike Lee.

10/28/23: I posted about Dave Grohl's history of SNL appearances. 34 notes.

10/30/23: I got to cover The Holdovers screening with an intro and Q&A from director Alexander Payne.

11/25/23: I wrote about the passing of Marty Krofft. 16 notes.

11/29/23: In memory of George Harrison's passing on that day in history, I posted his music video for "Any Road". 10 notes.

11/30/23: I wrote about the passing of Shane McGowan. 192 notes, making it my biggest post of the year!

11/30/23: I was quoted in a Boston.com article about the best holiday music!

Nov - Dec. 2023: I got to do an album review of Scream's DC Special, interview singer Pete Stahl and cover their concert, a rare hat trick for me!

12/27/23: I wrote about the passing of Tom Smothers. 11 notes.

Thank you for attending Green's Party in 2023! Now onto more pop culture thoughts in 2024....

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Play of the Week! A new play, performed live, every week, in front of a live studio audience. How wrong could it go?

Okay, I gotta talk about The Goes Wrong Show.

The Goes Wrong Show is something I'm surprised Tumblr hasn't been more up in arms about. This website is, after all, all about committing to the bit. A popular text post by @linecoveredinjellyfish proposed the school of media criticism called "Bitism". And buddy, lemme tell you, The Goes Wrong Show is the patron saint of Bitism. They commit to the bit harder than an alcoholic horse who recently found protestant Jesus.

And it is the funniest goddamn thing I have ever seen.

As is so often the case, writing a review of a very good comedy is hard - it's not easy to talk about it without taking some of the oomph out of the jokes. And, make no mistake, The Goes Wrong Show is an incredibly good comedy. I'll try my best anyways, because I cannot stop recommending it, but if you don't need more convincing, just go watch an episode. It's incredible.

Our framing device is a series of weekly plays put on by an unbelievably incompetent and eclectic drama society, where anything can and probably will fuck up horribly. Terrible acting? A horrific script? Broken props? A set mistakenly built at a 90-degree angle? You name it, they found a way to fuck it up.

But. And this is the key thing. They commit. The script calls for a scene involving pouring tea in a set that's oriented completely wrong? Commit to the bit.

The script demands a period piece family dinner, but something is very wrong with the ceiling fan?

Commit. To. The. Bit.

Major actor in the piece is completely incompetent?

Commit.

To.

The.

Bit.

It's an Airplane!-esque barrage of constant absurd gags, and I don't say that lightly. Each member of the cast is distinctly deranged in their own unique ways, the stage management is woefully incompetent, and the special effects are really just a special kind of fucked.

Really, the only complaint I can make of this show is that there isn't more of it, and frankly that's a good problem to have! If you're the kind of person who's not too busy to read a long Tumblr fandom post, but is too busy to binge a series you can get through in an evening, just give s1e3, "A Trial To Watch", a look - in my humble opinion, it is incredibly hard to top.