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A handly list of the best funny movies on Netflix right now, if you want to work on your abs from the couch with your next binge-watch.

Sean S. Cunningham’s A STRANGER IS WATCHING Gets New Scream Factory Blu-ray Now Scream Factory will release FRIDAY THE 13TH director Sean S. Cunningham’s A STRANGER IS WATCHING with Kate Mulgrew and Rip Torn on Blu-ray on July 20th. By Mike Sprague Friday the 13th director Sean S. Cunningham’s A Stranger Is Watching with Kate Mulgrew and Rip Torn on Blu-ray on July 20th. The new special features are still in the works. Screa...

The Most Bizarre Sitcom Deaths Explained The Most Bizarre Sitcom Deaths Explained By Thompson Smith/April 14, 2021 1:13 pm EDT Handily among the dominant genres of American entertainment since the mid-20th century, situation comedies have carved out a permanent presence in popular culture. In a general sense, sitcoms provide lighthearted, low-stakes escapism for folks who just want to shut their brains off and laugh after a long day. When serious issues arise on a sitcom, theyre usually deal...

"4D chess comprised of stupidity and dick jokes."

I knew a very good poker player who always lost money at bachelor parties. Hed turn a profit in Vegas, but down in the basement with the beer and the cigar smoke he invariably got cleaned out. The reason, he explained, was that the jerks he was playing against didnt know how to play poker. They bet on every hand. They raised when they should have folded. You couldnt tell when they were bluffing because they knew so little they were always bluffing. Gene Hackman plays a character like that in "W...

In the 35 years since its first release, Nicolas Roeg’s “The Man Who Fell to Earth” has attained such cult status that it was remade in 1987 for television, and its poster can be glimpsed in the recent “Green Lantern.” It centers on an eerie performance by rock star David Bowie, as an alien from a drought-stricken planet who journeys to Earth in search of water. Bowie, slender, elegant, remote, evokes this alien so successfully that one could say, without irony, this was a role he was ...

Package Includes: Blu-ray Disc Type: BD50 (dual layer) Region: A MSRP: $21.99 The Production: 5/5 In a decaying mansion outside of a small town in Mississippi, cotton gin operator Archie Lee Meighan (Karl Malden) lives with his child bride Baby Doll (Carroll Baker), eagerly awaiting the day he can consummate their marriage on her 20th birthday. However, he has fallen on hard times, so he arranges to have the gin of his rival Silva Vaccaro (Eli Wallach) torched in order to drum up business. When...

The Beastmaster (1982): Fantasizing About Fantasy Films February 24, 2021 by: Welcome back to Fantasizing About Fantasy Films! Written and narrated by Jessica Dwyer, in this very special episode we look back at an eighties cult classic, THE BEASTMASTER, starring Marc Singer and the late Tanya Roberts. Directed by Don Coscarelli, Singer stars as Dar, the titular Beastmaster, who, like Doctor Doolittle, can talk to the animals, but its way, way cooler here. A box-office disappointment upon its ...

Judd Apatow and Jason Bateman Take You to Film School for a Master Class in Directing Meredith Woerner, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Director Judd Apatow describes himself as the “anti-David Fincher.” “I’m not the person that thinks you need to do 10 or 20 takes to get rid of all self-consciousness, to drain the actors so that they become so pure and in the moment,” the “King of Staten Island” helmer revealed on “I love it, I mean, what’s better than ‘Zodiac?” Apatow...

The Boondocks (Screenshot), Curb Your Enthusiasm (Photo: John P. Johnson/HBO) Streaming libraries expand and contract. Algorithms are imperfect. Those damn thumbnail images are always changing. But you know what you can always rely on? The expert opinions and knowledgeable commentary of The A.V. Club. That’s why we’re scouring both the menus of the most popular services and our own archives to bring you these guides to the best viewing options, broken down by streamer, medium, and genre. ...