High-Def Digest: The Bonus ViewJeffrey Tambor Archives - High-Def Digest: The Bonus View https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/tag/jeffrey-tambor/ A High-Def Digest Blog Wed, 13 May 2020 15:26:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 ‘The Death of Stalin’ Review: Brutal Political Humor https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/death-of-stalin-movie-review/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/death-of-stalin-movie-review/#comments Fri, 02 Mar 2018 19:00:21 +0000 Philip Brown https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=90211 Not everyone can take a tragic political bloodbath out of history and transform it into one of the finest (and funniest) comedies of the year. Not everyone is Armando Iannucci. Beloved by some (mostly British) and tragically lacking name recognition from most, Iannucci is quietly one of the most important voices in comedy of the...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/death-of-stalin-movie-review/feed/ 1 TIFF Journal: ‘The Death of Stalin’ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/tiff-death-of-stalin-movie-review/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/tiff-death-of-stalin-movie-review/#respond Wed, 13 Sep 2017 15:00:41 +0000 Philip Brown http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=87103 Writer/director Armando Iannucci has a knack for finding comedy where it shouldn’t be. He essentially invented cringe comedy (anything ‘Alan Partridge’ related) and even made political comedy mainstream (relatively) with ‘In the Loop’ and ‘Veep’. Now he’s turned the murderous aftermath of Joseph Stalin’s reign of terror into a yukfest and somehow it works. The...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/tiff-death-of-stalin-movie-review/feed/ 0 2016 Emmy Winners https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/2016-emmy-award-winners/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/2016-emmy-award-winners/#comments Mon, 19 Sep 2016 21:00:42 +0000 Josh Zyber http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=80211 The Emmy Awards aired on Sunday and I barely even noticed. Once again, my interest in this ceremony was minimal. Nonetheless, I feel obligated to mention here that they happened. I watched Jimmy Kimmel’s opening monologue, which was pretty funny, and walked into the room a couple of times here and there to catch a...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/2016-emmy-award-winners/feed/ 3 Statuesque: 2015 Golden Globe Predictions – Televison https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/golden-globe-predictions-2015-tv/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/golden-globe-predictions-2015-tv/#respond Thu, 08 Jan 2015 20:00:43 +0000 Shannon Nutt http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=67405 A couple days ago, I gave my predictions for the movie categories at this year’s Golden Globes. Now it’s time to cover the major TV awards. Once again, these predictions are not what I would personally choose if I had a vote, but rather what I feel is most likely to win come Sunday night....

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