How to Marry a Millionaire
If you want to know how to marry a millionaire you could ask Jerry Hall, or you could watch this film, in which three young women (Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable […]
Tag Archives: comedy
Grandma
Grandma is a new comedy/drama from the director of Little Fockers. Wait, come back…! Lily Tomlin gives a note-perfect performance as an acerbic academic, whose granddaughter (Julia Garner, also terrific) shows […]
Woody Allen: A Double Bill – Part 7: Woody Allen’s New Nightmare
A belated happy birthday to Woody Allen, who turned 80 this week. Let’s pretend I timed this post deliberately, as I review another of his best films and another of […]
Son of Rambow
From Be Kind Rewind to Super 8, there have been a few movies about amateur filmmaking in recent years. But there’s nothing amateur about Son of Rambow, the 2007 comedy written and directed by […]
The Lobster
Colin Farrell channels Dougal McGuire, as he checks in to a dystopian spa, where he has 45 days to find a romantic partner or else be turned into an animal of […]
American Ultra
The latest film to be called American Something is American Ultra; an action/comedy about a slacker couple (Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart) whose burnout lives are turned upside down when he turns out […]
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
This classic follows a dysfunctional couple – a history professor (Richard Burton) and the daughter of the university president (Elizabeth Taylor) – on a drunken night of arguing, as a […]
East Is East
Adapted by Ayub Khan-Din from his play, East Is East is the story of a British-Asian family in 1970s Salford. Om Puri plays fanatical patriarch George Khan – or Genghis […]
Danny Collins
Al Pacino plays the titular character, an ageing musician who has a mid-life crisis about 30 years too late when he realises he’s just singing the same songs over and […]
All About Eve
Bette Davis plays Margo Channing, the most successful stage actor in America and an egomaniac who surrounds herself with admirers. And no-one admires her more than Eve (Anne Baxter), a […]
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