We’re back for the first time in a long time, with a discussion of Abbas Kiarostami’s seminal quasi-documentary Close-Up and Mike Myer’s era-defining comedy Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery. Also, Rob is pretty sure he mixed up Steven Wright and Steven Weber, but he is too lazy to go back and check. Only one of them was in So I Married an Axe Murderer, and it is not the one who was in that one episode of Party Down.
Tag: comedy
#51: Mirror/Blue Streak
We take a turn for the despondent with slow-core Soviet auteur Andrei Tarkovsky’s oddball memoir Mirror and then cool off with the better-than-Black Knight Martin Lawrence crime comedy Blue Streak.