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Review: Kevin Hart: What Now?

October 14, 2016 by Julian Lytle Leave a Comment

This review was originally posted on Punch Drunk Critics

So I’m sitting here wondering how do you really sit and review a stand-up comedy concert film? Like does editing and cinematography really matters here? Is that a standard to even think about? There really isn’t a plot because like come on its stand up. I think first things first Kevin Hart is right now and has been for a few years THE most visible and mass popular stand-up comedian we have. You can counter with Louis C.K., Aziz Ansari or Amy Schumer but Amy isn’t at that level yet, Aziz kind of has a certain niche in that “lovelorn let’s explore romance and ball out” lane and Louie is like the artisan of comedy. Kevin is the one that people instantly gets, can be annoying and you worry about him over saturating himself but somehow he’s just likable enough to keep his hustle going. Which brings us to his newest concert film What Now? It’s been a few years since his last one, Let Me Explain, and here his goal is to take it to another level. Like the last film he bookends his movie with fictional story on a problem on him getting to his concert.Continue Reading …

Ignorant Bliss 41: Cloth Talk on Infinite Earths

May 4, 2016 by Julian Lytle 5 Comments

This time it’s my friend Kenny Keil talking with me. We cover a lot of subjects here. Some good rap and music talk. We talk some TLOP (The Life of Pablo) and Kanye. We talk about the craft of making comics and drawing in vector along with comedy writing on Mad Magazine and why Cracked was dope. Kenny tells me how he going into writing Rap video treatments. We talk about Kenny’s comics, Rhyme Travelers, Death trip, Tales to Suffice, and Ferrari Boyz webcomic. We also talk about biting, hip hop culture and comic fandom (read the subtext bruh). Plus a manga talk all throughout. Enjoy this cloth talk. Major keys are laid down.

MOVIE REVIEW-Casa De Mi Padre

March 16, 2012 by Julian Lytle Leave a Comment

Would you ever think of Will Ferrell, Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal together in a movie? How about a Spanish language movie? A movie that is a telenovela like the stuff you’d see on Telemundo or Univision. Yeah that’s what they made and it’s called Casa De Mi Padre, a comedy that feels like Tarentino’s & Rodriguez’s Grindhouse but for comedy in terms of keeping to the format of filmmaking. The fact that they stay so close and never break character or deliberately wink at the audience is what makes this a nice achievement of doing an interesting and new comedy.