Enough Said is one of those rare romantic comedies that actually feels like it’s happening in a reasonably good approximation of real life. There are no gilded cages, no idealised lives, no perfect romantic moments unsullied by the odd misstep – it’s all delightfully, painfully, awkwardly real and a Continue Reading
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Hooray for Halloween #1: Funny or Die’s pop culture fright night
You think werewolves, and skeletons and goblins and vampires (oh my!) are truly scary? You don’t know scary! Wait ’til you’ve seen Billy Eichner and Rachel Dratch from Funny or Die, a “comedy video website founded by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay’s production company, Gary Sanchez Productions” (wikipedia) go through Continue Reading
Movie review: The Butler
It is very early on in Lee Daniel’s The Butler that the world in which Cecil Gaines, a character loosely based on the life of black White House butler-turned-maitre d’hotel Eugene Allen, a man who dutifully served eight US Presidents from Eisenhower to Reagen,is brought starkly to horrifying life. In Continue Reading
Back to the Future the musical? Yes please!
Great Scott! Could they be making a Back to the Future musical? Alas no, not yet but if they did, and they totally should, this would be the perfect song to include in it! The amazingly talented folks at Cinefix have made one of their legendary Homemade Movies, starring Continue Reading
Weekend Pop Art #8: Grumpy Cat and Disney together? Believe it!
Grumpy Cat, a feline who has yet to find a person, event or circumstance he can’t regard with glum disinterest, and the inhabiter of one of the more prevalent, virulent, and yes, hilarious memes on the worldwide web, has been embraced by Disney. Well in a manner of speaking. Continue Reading
Movie review: Captain Phillips
It is an oft used axiom that there are always two sides to every coin. But mainstream movie makers have not always been quick to honour this truism, often preferring to render their protagonists as all-capable three dimensional beings for whom no task is too great and no victory Continue Reading
Marvellous massing of movie trailers #5: Dear Mr Watterson, The Book Thief, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, That Awkward Moment
Once more to the movies my friends once more! And as always the heralds to what will hopefully be engaging, rewarding and water cooler-sharing worthy films are the trailers which arrive with the sort of frequency I would like my local train provider to follow. I have a mixed Continue Reading
Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock trip the light fantastic … on a Big set of piano keys
Oh happy piano key tap dancing days! Two of my favourite actors in the whole world, Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock – as opposed to the intergalactic ones but that’s a matter for another post entirely – appeared together on the October 12 edition of The Jonathan Ross Show in Continue Reading
Movie review: About Time
I am very much of the opinion that Richard Curtis, a man who has brought us such cinematic delights as Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill and Love Actually, and now the charms of About Time, leads a charmed, romantically rarefied existence far beyond the reach of the Continue Reading
Looking for some belly-ripping laughter? Try Aliens: The Sitcom
This is pretty much my new most favourite thing ever! Aliens, as terrifying a movie as you’re ever likely to see, re-imagined by the very funny Dorks of Yores (a YouTube channel featuring the work of Mad TV‘s Pat Kilbane and The New in Living Color‘s Melissa McQueen) as a cheesy Continue Reading