Title: Tucker & Dale Vs. Evil
Director: Eli Craig
Actor(s): Alan Tudyk, Tyler Labine
Genre: Horror/Comedy
Runtime: 1 hour 26 minutes
Rating: A
Recommended?: Yes
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Title: I Love My Dad
Director: James Morosini
Actor(s): Patton Oswalt, James Morosini
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Runtime: 1 hour 36 minutes
Rating: D
Recommended?: No
Title: The House
Director(s): Niki Lindroth von Bahr, Paloma Baeza, Emma De Swaef, Marc James Roels
Actor(s): Matthew Goode, Jarvis Cocker, Helena Bonham Carter
Genre: Adult Animation/Horror
Runtime: 1 hour 37 minutes
Rating: A
Recommended?: Yes
Title: Carrie Pilby
Director: Susan Johnson
Actor(s): Bel Powley, Nathan Lane
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Runtime: 1 hour 38 minutes
Rating: B
Recommended?: Yes
Title: Yes, God, Yes
Director: Karen Maine
Actor(s): Natalia Dyer, Francesca Reale
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Runtime: 1 hour 18 minutes
Rating: B
Recommended?: Yes
Title: Black Friday
Director: Casey Tebo
Actor(s): Devon Sawa, Bruce Campbell
Genre: Horror/Comedy
Runtime: 1 hour 24 minutes
Rating: D+
Recommended?: No
Title: Eighth Grade
Director: Bo Burnham
Actor(s): Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Runtime: 1 hour 33 minutes
Rating: A
Recommended?: Yes
Title: Willy’s Wonderland
Director: Kevin Lewis
Actor(s): Nicolas Cage, Emily Tosta
Genre: Horror/Comedy
Runtime: 1 hour 28 minutes
Rating: B+
Recommended?: Yes
Title: Llamageddon
Director: Howie Dewin
Star(s): Louie the Llama, James Earl Cox III
Genre: Horror/Comedy
Runtime: 1 hour 9 minutes
Rating: F
Recommended: Weirdly, yes
Title: Silver Screen Fiend- Learning About Life From an Addiction to Film
Author: Patton Oswalt
Genre: Humorous Non-Fiction
Number of Pages: 230
Rating: B+
Recommended?: Yes
I myself am a movie buff who has been watched fewer films over the last couple of years, but I’m not exactly ashamed to admit that I’m no Patton Oswalt. In this darkly humorous memoir, he tells the story of how his all-consuming love of film took over his life and sabotaged his relationships. I’m familiar with Patton Oswalt’s body of work (this is probably the closest I’ve ever come to reading a celebrity memoir) and I enjoyed his trademark dry sense of humor and how he doesn’t dress up some of the more unflattering things about himself. This book is simultaneously a love letter to cinema and a story of how the author managed to maintain his avid cinephilia but gradually found a life to go along with it.
Title: Zombie Spaceship Wasteland
Author: Patton Oswalt
Genre: Humorous Non-Fiction
Number of Pages: 191
Rating: B-
Recommended?: Yes
I read these two books roughly around the same time (I’m already getting parts of them confused with each other) and while I enjoyed them both, Silver Screen Fiend is by far the better read. While Silver Screen Fiend was more of a straightforward memoir, Zombie Spaceship Wasteland is a odd assortment of personal stories and anecdotes, almost like a sketch variety show. Some of these chapters work and some of them don’t. Patton Oswalt again invoked an endearing combination of pathos and sarcasm, but there were a few chapters in this book that seemed like failed ideas for unfunny sketches that for one reason or another he couldn’t let go of.
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