Performing Arts
Eric Webb
Drood: The Mystery Of Edwin Drood
8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday
The Pollard Theatre
120 W. Harrison, Guthrie
thepollard.org
282-2800
$15-$25

Comedy
Rod Lott
In its opening moments, "Rio Sex Comedy" is instantly endearing, with Fisher Stevens’ character practically passing out over the sight of nude natives, followed by They Might Be Giants' "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" driving the opening credits.

Comedy
Rod Lott
From 1934, "Hollywood Party" is exactly the kind of movie they don't make anymore, the kind of movie they can't make anymore, what with star salaries now stratospheric.

Comedy
Rod Lott
No more comedies about quirky, dysfunctional families, please — at least those in which the entire point is that said families are dysfunctional and quirky. That goes double if they go straight to video.

Comedy
Rod Lott
Paul Rudd was absolutely hilarious opposite Rashida Jones! In "I Love You, Man." Paul Rudd was absolutely hilarious opposite Elizabeth Banks! In "Role Models."

Comedy
Rod Lott
Reads the cover of the "Astron-6" DVD, "What the @#*! is -- Astron-6." I didn't know, either, but now I'm glad I do.

Comedy
Rod Lott
Considerable criticism has been lobbed at "The Hangover Part II" for essentially resurrecting the story template of the first film. Yeah, but really, what else could you expect them to do? Besides, it's not like director/co-writer Todd Phillips just used the same jokes.

Comedy
Rod Lott
Comedy is hard; horror comedy is harder. Throw a foreign language in there, and it's harder even still. And while the French film "Vampires" is far better than our own country's "Vampires Suck" spoof, it still has no bite.

Comedy
Rod Lott
What's worse than a pie in the face? A pie in the face, followed by a very sharp knife. So it is in Troma's "Klown Kamp Massacre," a supremely silly but occasionally inspired comedy from Troma.

Comedy
Rod Lott
I have missed seeing the work of John Landis on the big screen. Once a can’t-miss comedy director — “National Lampoon’s Animal House,” “Trading Places,” “An American Werewolf in London” — he hasn’t had a film open wide since the deserved bombing of 1998’s dismal “Blues Brothers 2000.”