Hedwig and the Angry Inch

00s Comedy
4 stars

Wildly entertaining with great music about a transvestite singer. Music is great. Hilarious, similar in many aspects to Velvet Goldmine.

For Your Consideration

00s Comedy
3 stars

I fell promptly and soundly asleep. Granted, I had just come back from Las Vegas where I enjoyed a weekend with the fellas, drank a lot of margaritas and slept little. The comedy here was the first I've seen by this team not uproariously funny. A Mighty Wind, Best in Show, and Spinal Tap were all way more memorable. Ok that's cheating because I snored through most of this, so I really can't say.

Art School Confidential

00s Comedy
3.5 Stars

Is this a most hilarious comedy? No way. But the scenes where the students give feedback to each other is oh-so-true, having lived through my own version of that with other documentary students in grad school.

I am reminded that one of the most liberating days for me in grad school was when one of my professors advised me to respectfully listen to but pay no heed to the feedback from my classmates, when they unanimously told me they "didn't understand" what I was trying to do. My classmates are great, but preach on, preacher!