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Schitt$ Creek (2015)
Funniest show I've watched in years!
Schitt's Creek is a very unique sitcom, and judging from the reviews, isn't for everyone. But, I find most sitcoms that are wildly popular to be positively dreadful. So if the standard fast-paced, tie up all loose ends each episode, laugh track-filled TV comedy is more your style, this might not be your cup of tea.
But not because it isn't funny. Schitt's Creek is hysterical. Most of the negative reviews I've read are worried about "How someone buys a town," or "the over top gay son is annoying." Newsflash: he's supposed to be annoying and the details of how they ended up there doesn't have to make sense, it's a sitcom. The show is well written and superbly acted. Chris Elliott is fantastic as usual, as are Catherine O'Hara, Eugene Levy, and his real life daughter and son. There are moments that are terribly uncomfortable, behavior that is universally unacceptable, only a rare occasional touching moment, and the main characters (the Rose family) are utterly self absorbed and almost without redeeming qualities. Many of the townies they encounter are just as bad, in their own, more crude ways. It's not a formula that's never been done before, we've seen this theme from Green Acres to Arrested Development. But Schitt's Creek does "formerly wealthy people out of their element" fantastically.
You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll cringe, and you'll have a new favorite show. Or perhaps you'll be in the percentage of people who are inexplicably enraged by it. For me, it's easily my favorite comedy in the last several years.
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008)
Interesting subject matter, but terrible filmmaker
While the storyline was fascinating, the slick MTV-style editing and constant cuts were difficult to watch. This started out as a tribute to Kurt Kuenne's fallen friend slain by a crazy lover, but ended as a jumbled mess. The look into Canada's justice system was disturbing and riveting, and the parents of the victim were amazing people that you simply had to root for. The story was excellent, and the filmmaker had much of the young man's life already on film. It was the execution of it that I had a problem with. There are stretches throughout the film where no clip is even a second long. One person's sentence is spliced into another's and so on, at such a pace that it's almost nauseating. Kurt himself also spoke with the speed of an auctioneer, which I found very distracting. It's a shame, because this documentary had the potential to be great.
Windy City Heat (2003)
I laughed, I cried!
I love nothing more than a practical joke, and this one is an extended, caught on film masterpiece. I first caught this gem on Comedy Central years ago and have have wanted more ever since. Well, we get more. Don, Mole, and Perry now are putting out the "Big Three" podcast (free on Itunes)-basically just as another vehicle for them to mess with Perry. There were points I was unconvinced that Scary Perry is real, but after hearing the guy on a weekly basis now, I'm sold. On the podcast as well as the movie they play Perry like a fiddle. And you don't feel one bit bad for him. He is such an obnoxious arrogant character, it makes the jokes at his expense almost guilt free. And Don and Mole keep them coming! Every scene in this movie is either a joke on Perry or the set up to one. While it is completely ridiculous, I have to give Windy City Heat 10 stars because I can not watch any scene in this movie without giggling like a maniac.