Family Plot
A professional psychic and her cab driver boyfriend promise to track down an elderly woman’s last remaining heir in exchange for a hefty paycheck, but they get more than they […]
Tag Archives: comedy
Bean
It’s a cliché of sitcoms on the big screen that the the characters go abroad, and in the case of Mr Bean this trope is used in both films. In […]
Ingrid Goes West
Counterprogramming involves competing with a big release by scheduling a film that’s the exact opposite. So you put a Nicole Kidman movie up against a Gary Oldman movie. Or if they […]
The Pink Panther (1963)
When the Pink Panther diamond goes missing, clumsy detective Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers) tries to track it down. Watching this in 2017 it’s very hard to see why it’s so […]
Happy Death Day
If you happened to watch Groundhog Day and thought “I wish this was a lame horror film”, then Happy Death Day is the movie for you. This slasher-comedy stars Jessica Rothe as […]
The Death of Stalin
It’s 1953 in Moscow, and the world’s worst ever secretary, Joseph Stalin, has snuffed it. It’s left to his surviving cabinet – a mixture of the slavishly devoted, cut-throat and […]
Oxide Ghosts: The Brass Eye Tapes
Twenty years on from the original airing of the ground-breaking Brass Eye, a raft of unseen clips that never made it onto the small screen are resurrected on the big […]
Desperately Seeking Susan
Rosanna Arquette plays Roberta Glass, a young woman who’s hung up on Susan (Madonna), a beautiful stranger who organises romantic liaisons through the personals section of a New York newspaper. […]
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Matthew Broderick plays Ferris Bueller, an ageing Roger the Dodger who manages to convince his entire community that he’s seriously ill while he actually spends the day out and about […]
The Return of Spinal Tap
Almost a decade on from their infamous North American tour, Spinal Tap are back at the top of their game playing a sellout gig to London’s Royal Albert Hall. The […]
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