Magical realism and slapstick seem like natural allies, so it's sort of surprising that hardly anybody has tried to combine them before. If you want to see what that marriage would look like, check out the French movie Fairy (La Fée), opening in some U.S. theaters today. Equal parts ravishing and obnoxious, Fairy…
Slapstick Aboard a Spaceship: An alien abduction in the style of Benny …
In El Super Policia 880, a down-on-his-luck cop meets some aliens, who turn him into a super-cop. Soon he's stopping criminals, preventing professors from being zapped with their own super-weapons, and teaching all the other cops to dance.
Six Spirit Clips To Test Your Frank Miller Tolerance
Is The Spirit just like Sin City — actually a playfully dark thriller, and we've all just missed the good jokes? See for yourself in these six Spirit clips.
Ground Control To Barney Fife
Everybody obsesses about zero-gravity sex, but they ignore the fantastic possibilities for zero-gravity slapstick. Just check out this zany computer-wrecking, doll-molesting, peanut-butter dodging clip from The Reluctant Astronaut, starring Don Knotts. [IMDB]
Be Kind, Rewind Is Slipstream Slapstick
Be Kind Rewind, Michel Gondry's new movie, is a thematic sequel to his best film, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind. In Eternal Sunshine, a mysterious brain-editing machine can erase your memories of a shitty relationship, leaving you free to reinvent yourself. In Be Kind Rewind, Jack Black gets magnetized and then …
