Kok Kok Kookook (2025) Movie Review: The Politics of Contemporary India Through an Absurdist Lens
Maharshi Tuhin Kashyap’s debut feature, “Kok Kok Kookook” (2025), is an absurd film operating under strange by-laws. This is a…
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The Chair Company (TV Series 2025) Review: An Audacious Midlife Crisis Comedy Dipped into Tim Robinson’s Brand of Absurdist Humor
Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin, who have been collaborating for over a decade, reunite on “The Chair Company,” a comedy…
The Conflict of Reason and Ruin: A Marxist-Psychoanalytic Reading of Ritwik Ghatak’s ‘Jukti Takko Aar Gappo’ Through an Absurdist Lens
Ritwik Ghatak’s film “Jukti Takko Aar Gappo” (Reason, Debate and a Story, 1974) stands as a compelling cinematic meditation on…
Kizumonogatari: Koyomi Vamp (2024) ‘Fantasia’ Movie Review: Hyper-Absurdist Visual Ingenuity The Crowning Jewel Of This Revamped Spectacle
Nisioisin’s long-running “Monogatari” series has always buzzed with a specific brand of teenage psychosexuality. The threshold of horror, manifesting in…
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The Old Man Movie [2020]: ‘Fantasia’ Review – A lactophilic expedition full of absurdist humor
Animation has been a medium of immeasurable possibilities. Anything can be animated. Anyone can be animated. In the realm of…
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It Must Be Heaven [2019]: ‘MAMI’ Review – An Absurdist Observational Comedy Wrapped in a Meta-Critic of Political and Societal bounds
The first thing you will notice about Elia Suleiman’s ‘It Must Be Heaven’ is its delirious comic tone. This absurd…
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Damsel [2018] Review – A Thoughtful, Absurdist Adventure Drama Set in the Mythic West
Sibling film-makers David and Nathan Zellner makes oft-kilter cinema, charged with absurdist humor and modified archetypes, that aren’t easily categorizable….
Eternal Recurrence: Love and Memory in the Philosophy of Living through ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’
Michel Gondry’s “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” on its surface, twirls with the whimsical energy of a love story…
Man on the Run (2025) Documentary Review: An Insightful, Understated Look at a Genius Musician’s Second Act
There’s been no shortage of documentaries about the Beatles in recent years, as the momentous restoration of the legendary “Get…