comedy – Alica McKenna Johnson

May 29 2015

Foreign Film Friday: Ghost Graduation

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The blurb for this Spanish movie made it seem like it would be a silly fun ghost story. And it was, but it was also touching. A teacher is hired at a high school because of his ability to see and speak to ghosts who are causing trouble. It started out silly, but by […]

May 22 2015

Foreign Film Friday: Grabbers

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So a small Scottish village is being attacked by a sea monster and the only way to protect themselves is to be drunk. Um, yes please!!! This was a really fun movie. I recognized several actors. There were enough funny moments to balance the scary-ish ones. This isn’t a big scare movies. A […]

August 22 2014

Lots of Places Have a North

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Bienvenue Chez Les Ch’sit Apparently France is not all coveted beauty, they have a NORTH. A place where bad employees are transferred to, a place with weird accents, unrecognizable slang words, and cold. And fortunately for us, it is a place of fun characters, beauty, and drunken bicycling. A very enjoyable movie, but you need […]

May 11 2012

Were the World Mine

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Were the World Mine is a sweet indie movie, about a young gay boy living in a small town. He is picked on and shunned by most of the boys in his all-boys school. Then Shakespeare comes along. The senior play is A Midsummer’s Nights Dream and magic happens. *girly sigh* I love the mom […]

April 20 2012

The Trip

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So these two comedians/impressionists travel through Northern England to review restaurants. For me this movie was a bit low on the food porn in spite of the fact that eating was a major part of the story. It was fun and the country side beautiful, but I didn’t get into it that much, probably because […]