ComedyEvery May 25, fans of Douglas Adams carry a towel to honor the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide. The first Towel Day came in 2001, two weeks after his death at 49. Don't panic, and always know where your towel…
2010sWhat We Do in the Shadows earns its 8.5 by finding a joke the vampire genre had somehow left lying on the ground for a century. What if immortal creatures of the night still had to argue about whose turn…
1960sRoman Polanski's affectionate Hammer parody is more gorgeous gothic fairy tale than laugh-out-loud comedy. The Fearless Vampire Killers earns its 6.5 as a beautiful, uneven oddity, a horror comedy that is more interested in atmosphere than in jokes and lands…
2020sKidnappers grab a twelve-year-old ballerina who turns out to be a centuries-old vampire. The film's clever structure borrows from the heist movie.
2020sNicolas Cage's gloriously unhinged Dracula anchors a comedy about escaping a toxic boss, undercut by an overstuffed plot. Reframe Dracula's servant Renfield as a man in a toxic codependent relationship with his narcissistic boss, and play it as a workplace…
1980sNicolas Cage delivers one of the most committed and bizarre performances ever as a yuppie who thinks he's turning into a vampire. Vampire's Kiss earns its 6.5 as a fascinating, deeply strange film that is far more interesting as a…
1980sJudged as a complete film it is mediocre. Vamp earns its 5.5 as a stylish, uneven eighties horror comedy that is worth seeing almost entirely for one unforgettable element, Grace Jones as a vampire stripper who never speaks a word…
1990sJohn Landis fuses the vampire film with the mob movie in a fun, tonally chaotic horror comedy. The film's premise is its strongest asset.
Book ReviewsHapless Arthur Dent is dragged across the galaxy after Earth is demolished for a hyperspace bypass, in a gloriously absurd comic SF classic. Endlessly quotable, brilliantly inventive, and genuinely hilarious, it gave the world 42, the Babel fish, and don't…
Book ReviewsThe sparring of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy across class and pride, in a perennially beloved comedy of manners, courtship, and self-knowledge. Wit, irony, and psychological precision have kept it fresh for two centuries. A near-perfect social novel and a…
Book ReviewsThe novel that gave the language the phrase catch-22 itself: a savage, absurdist masterpiece of war and bureaucracy, darkly hilarious and genuinely furious beneath the comedy. Its deliberately disorienting structure rewards patience. A landmark of satire, held from the top…
Book ReviewsA witty, romantic, swashbuckling adventure that delivers every thrill of its genre and then layers sly humor and one of the cleverest framing devices in popular fiction over the top. A double pleasure and a master class in metafiction, held…
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