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Review: Due Date – Road Trip for Schmucks
17th November 2010 | 0 comments | 1 person likes this
The Hangover arrived last year and was such a sleeper hit that it may have been diagnosed with narcolepsy were it a person and not a piece of cinematic entertainment. It made a star of Zach Galifianakis and was a relative breath of fresh air after the slew of Judd Apatow-powered comedies like Funny People which had become a little too wishy-washy and introspective for my liking. It brought some...
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Review: Burke and Hare – Serkis of horrors
3rd November 2010 | 0 comments | 1 person likes this
Watching Burke and Hare is a bit like watching some well-intentioned school teachers putting on a skit for the kids at the end of the year. The humour is slapstick, the faces are all well-known but completely out of place and there appears to be some kind of competition to see who can do the worst accent amongst the members of the cast. It would be impolite for kids to...
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Review: Dinner for Schmucks – Schmuck my life
8th September 2010 | 7 comments | 2 people like this
Sorry for the subtitle to this review, but everyone’s been doing their best to play around with the fact that ‘schmuck’ rhymes with, and is indeed only a few letters away from, the word ‘fuck’, and I’m nothing if not unoriginal.
Dinner for Schmucks is a vehicle for what appears to be Paul Rudd’s new sallow-faced robotic stand-in and America’s perpetual clown Steve Carell. Ten years ago it might have been... -
Review: The Invention of Lying – Written by, directed by and starring Ricky Gervais (Obviously)
5th October 2009 | 3 comments | 4 people like this
If like me you saw last year’s Ghost Town, you may not have been looking forward to Ricky Gervais’ second Hollywood film as a leading man. In this case Gervais is behind the writing desk and the camera as well as being onscreen, so slightly higher expectations were inevitable given his oft proven skills as a craftsman of comedy. The result is a sentimental and safe rom-com which paradoxically criticises...
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Joe is a writer based in the UK. He is passionate about films, as well as video games and literature, and regularly blogs about new releases as well as forgotten classics and undiscovered gems from around the globe. Sometime's you'll find his posts peppered with fruity, pretentious language, but he means well.
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