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Category Archives: Humor
Saturday Matinee: The Laughing Prisoner
“The Laughing Prisoner” (1987) is a parody of the 60’s cult programme The Prisoner, starring Jools Holland and Stephen Fry. This was shown as part of The Tube programme in 1987, and was repeated on 1st January 1993 as a … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Humor, Music Video, Saturday Matinee, Video
Tagged Jools Holland, Stephen Fry, The Laughing Prisoner, The Prisoner, The Tube
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Saturday Matinee: Repo Man
By Alex Cox Source: AlexCoxFilms HOW DID REPO MAN OCCUR? After I left UCLA I was hired to write a script for United Artists about the British World War One deserter and agitator, Percy Topliss. When I delivered the screenplay … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Humor, Saturday Matinee, society, Video
Tagged Alex Cox, Cult film, Harry Dean Stanton, Michael Nesmith, Repo Man
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Two for Tuesday
So Out There Trevor Moore Bonus Album:
Saturday Matinee: Everything is Terrible! Holiday Special
O’er the years EIT! has built upon their classic Holiday Special, each year creating a more abominable video collage of everyone’s least favorite time of the year! A millennium’s worth of VHS memories of misplaced sentimentalities, fist fights over toys … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Humor, Saturday Matinee, Video
Tagged Chrsitmas, Everything is Terrible! Humor, Holiday Special, O Holy Night, Steve Mauldin, VHS
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Saturday Matinee: Dick
“Dick” (1999) is a cult comedy co-written (with Sheryl Longin) and directed by Andrew Fleming. It’s an absurdist retelling of the events surrounding the Watergate scandal which led to the resignation of Richard “Tricky Dick” Nixon (played in the film … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Humor, Saturday Matinee, Video
Tagged Andrew Fleming, Bruce McCulloch, comedy, Cult film, Dan Hedaya, Dave Foley, Dick, Harry Shearer, Jim Breuer, Kirsten Dunst, Michelle Williams, Nixon, Ryan Reynolds, Sheryl Longin, Teri Garr, Will Ferrell
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Saturday Matinee: Mayhem
By Brian Tallerico Source: RogerEbert.com Joe Lynch’s “Mayhem” feels like a timely film in a way it wouldn’t have a couple years ago. Whatever your political party may be, anger has been a palpable emotion in this country recently—it was … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Humor, Saturday Matinee, society, Video
Tagged Corporate CEOs, Cult film, Horror, Joe Lynch, Mayhem, Samara Weaving, satire, Steven Yeun
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Saturday Matinee: The Magic Christian
“The Magic Christian” (1969) is a British satire directed by Joseph McGrath and loosely adapted from the 1959 novel of the same name by Terry Southern, who co-wrote the screenplay with McGrath. Peter Sellers stars as billionaire Sir Guy Grand, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Humor, Saturday Matinee, Video
Tagged British Comedy, Cult film, Joseph McGrath, Peter Sellers, Ringo Starr, Terry Southern, The Magic Christian
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Saturday Matinee: I Thought I Told You To Shut Up!!!
“I Thought I Told You To Shut Up!!!” (2015) is a short documentary directed by Charlie Tyrell and narrated by the late Jonathan Demme. It focuses on an underappreciated underground cartoon from the 1970s called Reid Fleming: The World’s Toughest … Continue reading
