Tag: Ike Barinholtz

  • Running Point: Jokes and Basketball

    Running Point: Jokes and Basketball

    Running Point stars Kate Hudson in a comedy about basketball. She gets a chance to run the family basketball franchise, the LA Waves. Will she do a great job because she’s a woman, or will she run it into the ground because she’s a woman?

  • Blockers, farcical parents and grounded kids

    Blockers, farcical parents and grounded kids

    Blockers is several years old and finally hit the streamers, which means I watched it. This film is low brow comedy, raunchy, with physical gags and ridiculous situations. In other words, it’s funny. It’s about 3 over-protective parents who try to block their daughters from having sex on prom night.

  • Review: The Afterparty, making whodunnits fun

    Review: The Afterparty, making whodunnits fun

    The Afterparty, season 1, was a mystery about a murder. Set at a party after a high school reunion, the series was funny and surprisingly original. Each of the 8 episodes was from a different character’s point of view and in a different movie style. It has been renewed for a second season. Minor spoilers…

  • Moxie is a Riot grrrl scene do-over

    Moxie is a Riot grrrl scene do-over

    Moxie is an attempt to bring the Riot grrrl feminist scene into the present with more intersectionality, more social media, and a dash of #TimesUp. It doesn’t succeed 100%, but it’s a celebration of women power that is easy to enjoy. It’s streaming on Netflix.

  • Review: Late Night

    Review: Late Night

    Don’t miss Late Night. By women, about women, but not only for women. It’s funny, it’s barbed, it’s terrific.

  • Revisiting All in the Family and the Jeffersons

    Revisiting All in the Family and the Jeffersons

    ABC’s Live in Front of a Studio Audience with its iconic episodes of All in the Family and The Jeffersons brought up a lot for me.

  • Watch This: Sisters Featurettes, Trailers and First Looks

    Watch This: Sisters Featurettes, Trailers and First Looks

    Sisters is coming! December 18! Tina Fey. Amy Poehler. Maya Rudolph. Run, don’t walk to your nearest multiplex to watch this film! You want more funny people? Those three aren’t enough? Cripes. Okay, here they are: John Cena, John Leguizamo, Ike Barinholtz, James Brolin, Kate McKinnon, Madison Davenport, Adrian Martinez, Dianne Wiest, Heather Matarazzo and…