Category: Reviews

  • Albert Brooks Costars in “Drive”

    Rolling Stone | link ›By Peter Travers Buckle up for the existential bloodbath of Drive, a brilliant piece of nasty business that races on a B-movie track until it switches to the dizzying fuel of undiluted creativity. Damn, it’s good. You can get buzzed just from the fumes coming off this wild thing…Prepare to be…

  • Brooks takes a seriously funny look into the future of America

    Boston.com | link ›By Diane White Albert Brooks is a keen and critical social observer, attested by his work as screenwriter, director, actor, and comedian. His first novel, “Twenty Thirty: The Real Story of What Happens to America’’ is an inspired work of social science fiction, thoughtful and ambitiously conceived, both serious and seriously funny.…

  • Albert Brooks on his new futuristic novel: I wanted it to read like a news story

    Los Angeles Times | link ›By Patrick Goldstein It’s hard not to argue, with only the smallest apology to Larry David, that Albert Brooks has the most distinct comic voice of his generation. When we were talking the other day, just after the announcement that Osama bin Laden had been killed by U.S. special forces…

  • New York Times: A Comedian Laughs All the Way To Dystopia

    New York Times | link ›By Dave Itzkoff LOS ANGELES — For a guy who just wrote a whole book about the myriad catastrophes that could befall the United States in the next 20 years, Albert Brooks says he’s not interested in end-of-the-world scenarios and, more to the point, he’s too nervous to contemplate them.…

  • NEW YORK TIMES book review: A Wry Eye on Problems of the Future

    With “2030” Mr. Brooks has made the nervy move of transposing his worrywart sensibility from film to book. Two things are immediately apparent about his debut novel: that it’s as purposeful as it is funny, and that Mr. Brooks has immersed himself deeply in its creation. “2030” is an extrapolation of present-day America into the…

  • Comedy in the Muslim world?

    Rediff India Abroad By Arthur J Pais The script called for a shot of the exterior of the Pakistani High Commission in New Delhi but writer, actor and filmmaker Albert Brooks, who says he had received ‘unprecedented access to mosques, temples and monuments,’ quickly discovered that his list did not include the embassy. Brooks’s film,…

  • Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World

    Townhall.com By John Stossel Sony Pictures got upset about a “bad” word. They demanded it be taken out of the title of a movie. The word is “Muslim.” Give me a break. Do we have to be that sensitive? Or fearful? The movie is “Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World.” The writer and star…

  • Funny choices

    Los Angeles Times Calendarlive.com By Patrick Goldstein Something’s wrong when a studio balks at a comedy this inspired. In the days after the calamitous 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001, there was a brief flurry of soul-searching in Hollywood, focusing in part on how much of a role our movies played in stirring Muslim rage against…

  • From Albert Brooks, Discomfort’s a Joy

    The Washington Post By Ann Hornaday Is there an actor alive who can make discomfort as hilarious as Albert Brooks? Woody Allen comes to mind, and indeed Brooks has often been called Allen’s West Coast obverse. But the comparison doesn’t do justice to Brooks as the original that he is. Happily, Brooks takes center stage…

  • Albert Brooks: West Coast Woody Allen

    The New York Observer by Rex Reed Salvaging what remains of the worst summer I can remember, I am off to greener pastures where, if I? lucky, I will not see a cell phone, a pierced tongue, a computer, a rock video, a traffic jam or a single motion picture released after 1950. Before I…

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