The Mask
In our semi-regular feature of pretending to celebrate a movie’s anniversary, we take a look back at 1994’s The Mask; the wacky comedy starring Jim Carrey as a hapless loser who finds […]
Tag Archives: comedy
Fading Gigolo
John Turturro’s directorial début sees him star as a flower merchant who’s co-opted into sex work by his ageing friend Murray (Woody Allen). Turturro, the man best known for his roles with Spike Lee […]
The Trip to Italy
The Trip to Italy, like its predecessor The Trip, premiered as a film before airing as a TV series, which is why we’re allowed to review it on this movie […]
Animal Crackers
A popular defence of Marxism is that it was “funnier at the time”, and while this may be true, from a modern perspective we can’t help but see it as […]
The Odd Couple
In this quirky 60s comedy, two men whose marriages have recently ended live together as they get back on their feet. This don’t go to plan, however, as domesticated Felix […]
Some Guy Who Kills People
Kenny (Kevin Corrigan) is an aspiring artist who works in an ice cream parlour. A man of few words, his world is shaken when his estranged daughter shows up, and […]
Barton Fink
Barton Fink (John Turturro) is a struggling play-write in 1940s Los Angeles. When he’s commissioned to write a wrestling movie, he finds the transition to the big screen hard, spending his days pondering […]
Harold Ramissed
Harold Ramis sadly died on Monday aged 69, and as BuzzFeed-wannabe The Independent recently taught us, you shouldn’t be put off writing about someone just because you’ve not seen any of their […]
Her
In this romantic sci-fi, Jouaquin Phoenix plays Theadore, a man who writes other people’s heartfelt letters for a living. As he struggles to fill the void left by his divorce, […]
Slaughterhouse-Five
This is not a horror film, much to the confusion of the staff at my local HMV, who put it in the horror section presumably based on the title alone. […]
Screen Goblin 