Jess Whitehead

Jess Whitehead

Actor, director, comedian, podcaster, caregiver, bon vivant, raconteur, panhandler.

Favorite films

  • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  • Little Shop of Horrors
  • Duck Soup
  • The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

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  • Support Your Local Sheriff!

    ★★★★

  • Too Funny to Fail: The Life & Death of The Dana Carvey Show

    ★★★★

  • Se7en

    ★★★★★

  • Black Bag

    ★★★★★

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  • The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie

    The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie

    ★★★★★

    Believe it or not, The Day The Earth Blew Up is the first original, fully-animated Looney Tunes movie. Everything before has been either a live action hybrid like the godawful Space Jam movies or just a compilation of shorts. And it's a bold move for their first real movie to not even include Bugs Bunny, their flagship character. No, the only canonical LT characters here are Porky Pig (Eric Bauza), Daffy Duck (Eric Bauza), and Petunia Pig (Candi Milo).

    We…

  • Novocaine

    Novocaine

    ★★★★★

    Novocaine is the story of Nathan Caine (Jack Quaid). Nathan has a fictionalized version of a very real medical disorder that basically means he can’t feel pain. In real life, this is a very dangerous condition to live with. Pain is how your body lets you know that something is wrong. If that warning system isn’t working, you could do some serious damage to yourself. You’ve got to be the most cautious person in the world. And that’s how Nathan…

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  • The Nutcracker

    The Nutcracker

    ½

    Studio executive: Ya know what kids love in their Christmas movies? Nazi imagery. And ya know what Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite could really use? Lyrics by Tim Rice. Oh and throw in Nathan Lane as Albert Einstein. Don’t ask questions. I have to go. This ether won’t finish huffing itself.

  • The Truth vs. Alex Jones

    The Truth vs. Alex Jones

    ★★★★★

    Outstanding work from documentarian Dan Reed with The Truth vs Alex Jones. For someone like me who keeps tabs on Alex Jones and especially the defamation trials, it can feel a little bit like seeing an epic-length miniseries edited down to a two hour feature. But this movie is for the normal people who didn’t follow these trials obsessively.

    And Reed did a great job of keeping the focus of the doc where it needed to be. He didn’t let…

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