Play Time is a French comedy unlike any movie I've ever seen.  It is a grand sweeping commentary on modern life (mid 60s in Paris) as well as a carefully choreographed physical comedy.  Depending on your approach to watching it, it can be incredibly boring.  Done completely in long shots with no real dialogue, it's hard to know what to pay ( Read more... )

Idiocracy transports us to a world where stupidity reigns: The mass media panders to the most adolescent drives for sex, explosions, and the need to be cool.  Prisons are overflowing and police answer polite questions with a shot of pepper spray to the face.  Worst of all, the planet teeters on the brink of ecological ruin, and the former pro ( Read more... )