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Video Review: Bridesmaids – Humour the Bride
23rd June 2011 | 0 comments | 1 person likes this
Joe West criticises male-centric comedy and gets moist-eyed with mirth at Bridesmaids.
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Review: Jackass 3D – Paindemonium
9th November 2010 | 5 comments | 2 people like this
A flesh-coloured dildo flies arrow-straight through the air, as majestic in high definition 3D slow motion as any blue-skinned alien rendered painstakingly over a million man hours in Avatar, and far more interesting. Its trajectory takes it from left to right above miniatures of some of the world’s capital cities before slamming it into the face of a middle aged man and ricocheting off course in a fantastic pirouette as...
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Review: The Other Guys – Bringing down the spoof
21st September 2010 | 2 comments | 2 people like this
The Other Guys comes out of nowhere, it's funny, then a bit too long, and then over. Like sex with a clown.* Its plot and characters are not as carefully constructed as those of Anchorman, which is from the same team and is better than I’d ever give it credit for in polite society. However, if you enjoy Will Ferrell’s ‘I’m talking loudly so this is a joke’ style of...
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Review: Cyrus – Do Not Disturb
20th September 2010 | 0 comments | 1 person likes this
Human walrus* Jonah Hill takes maximum credit and the eponymous role in this low-key almost-comedy that has the watered-down blood of a disturbing psychological thriller somewhere in its lineage. John C. Riley’s lonely divorcee John meets Molly (Marissa Tomei) at a party and they quickly fall in love. This hits a roadblock when John meets Cyrus (Hill), her live-in 20-something son whose contradictorily passive yet confrontational approach to socialising and...
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Funny People review
8th September 2009 | 0 comments | 2 people like this
Judd Apatow has a lot to answer for. In recent years he’s been behind virtually every big comedy hit to come out of Hollywood, and has created bona fide stars in Seth Rogan, Paul Rudd, Katherine Heigl and his wife Lesley Mann. It’s his ability to produce masculine, gross-out comedies with sensitivity at their heart that brings in the audiences, and his third feature as director, Funny People, mixes these...
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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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