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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: 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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Review: Like Twilight? Love Adventureland…
28th September 2009 | 3 comments | 3 people like this
It has come to my attention that the Twilight series is incredibly popular amongst the t5m readership, and so it is with baited breath that I await the release of New Moon. Will I be able to review it honestly and live to write another day? In the mean time, if you are a Twilight fan and can’t wait to get your fix of Bella, why not go and see...
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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 West
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.





