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 […]
Tag Archives: comedy
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 […]
Force Majeure
Ski resorts are ripe screen territory, having set the scene for Swiss drama Sister by Ursula Meier (no relation – probably), British rom-com Chalet Girl (never seen it) and the […]
Wild Tales
Argentina’s entry for 2014’s foreign language Oscar was portmanteau movie Wild Tales, or Relatos salvajes if you’re Spanish or pretentious. Wild Tales comprises six short stories, featuring a disgruntled explosives […]
Shaun the Sheep the Movie
Shaun the Sheep and his sheep pals are getting sick of the routine of farm life, so in a clever scheme they imprison the farmer and run riot. Unfortunately, the […]
Last Action Hero
A young film fan named Danny (Austin O’Brien) is sucked into a cinema screen, suddenly finding himself bang in the middle of an action film alongside his hero – the badass movie cop […]
Birdman
Birdman is the latest addition to the already well-furnished sub-genre of films about how hard it is being a writer/actor. Michael Keaton plays Riggan Thompson, a washed-up movie star best […]
