Word: comics
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...local boys (Richard Dreyfuss and Ronny Howard) are set to leave for college. Howard and his girl (Cindy Williams) are surrogates for AIP's Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello, the straight-arrow guy and his girl, the latter a believer in early marriage and eternal obligation. Comic relief is provided by Charlie Martin Smith as the sad sack, and a glimpse into the classic cruising style by Paul Le Mat, who slides down the street in an unbeatable car, his hair in an unruffled d.a., his pack of Camels rolled in the sleeve of his T shirt. The greaser...
THEIR LITTLE comic books told the story of the Signifying Monkey, a devilish animal who's always instigating fights. The Signifying Monkey, Brer Rabbit, and Anansi the Spider are part of the same West African folk tradition. All three are small creatures that use their wits to survive and to cause trouble...
...actively malevolent force in Chaplin's Modern Times; Tati sees it as nothing more than a minor nuisance. His greatest problem, however, is that unlike Chaplin-or Buster Keaton-he hasn't the faintest idea of how to link one gag to another, building the kind of comic line that tightens, tightens, tightens around them and ensnares the audience in analogous helplessness, the kind that results from masterfully orchestrated laughter...
...modest few cheers for Jack Starrett, a director with an affection for razzle-dazzle action and a talent for staging the kind of outsize violence that is comic and compelling at the same time. His movies are burdened with lapses of taste and a lot of jokes that are vintage Elks-lodge stuff. But they have a flat-out rhythm, a certain sleazy charm, and an emphatically visceral impact...
...anthropological fascination Ruesch adds sardonic bite by contrasting The Men with white men. Every Eskimo knows that whites are comic. A favorite Inuit joke involves Admiral Peary's trek to the North Pole: What did he find there? Punch line: "Nothing, absolutely nothing!" Hilarious...