comedy

In Review: Elfie Hopkins

by Janet Awe 21 April 2012

Co-written by first-time director, Ryan Andrews, Elfie Hopkins is the tale of a bored teenager in a rural village, who spends her life spying on her neighbours to disguise the fact that she’s avoiding getting out into the real world.

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In Review: 21 Jump Street

by Darryl Griffiths 28 March 2012

The American contingent aside, the show 21 Jump Street - penciled by Fox in the late 80s and starring now Hollywood A lister Johnny Depp – will not be remembered by many. But never fear film fans. Jonah Hill (fresh off a terrific turn in Moneyball) and scriptwriter Michael Bacall have provided us a loose revival full [...]

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In Review: Young Adult

by Maryann O'Connor 3 February 2012

By Maryann O’Connor Mavis Gary (Charlize Theron), a thirty-something divorcee, spends her days in Minneapolis avoiding writing fiction for a Young Adult book series set in a High School and drinking too much. She’s busy wallowing over the knowledge that her book series has been cancelled when a chance email bombshell arrives, sporting a sickly sweet [...]

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In Review: The Guard

by Mike Richardson 21 August 2011

By Mike Richardson When straight-laced FBI operative Wendell Everett (Don Cheadle) travels to Ireland and is partnered with gruff, local Garda Sergeant Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson) in an attempt to thwart some drug traffickers, you’d expect a fish-out-of-water, odd-couple cop movie like Red Heat (1988) or even In the Heat of The Night (1967). With [...]

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Why I hate film #2: Vom-com

by Adam Glasspool 18 July 2011

By Adam Glasspool I once genuinely chased a girl to the airport.  Not in a rapey way, you understand, but because she was leaving the country, I was in love with her and I needed to tell her how I felt. Deep down I hoped that she’d change her mind and stay. A quagmire of [...]

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