comedy

Birds Eye View Film Festival 2014: Gone Too Far

by Daniel Goodwin 12 April 2014

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Many films have been made about British youth culture over the last decade but few can be held up as examples of great film-making. Even less are based around London’s African/ Caribbean communities and hardly any portray the youth of today in a positive light. But because of the overabundance, when it came to adapting […]

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In Review: We’re the Millers

by Mairéad Roche 29 August 2013

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Though her choice of films has been peppered with some great scripts and resulting films, Jennifer Aniston has, one could argue, over-salted her filmography with sub-par Romantic Comedies which are less worthy of her skills.

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In Review: The Heat

by Maryann O'Connor 2 August 2013

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Sarah Ashburn (Sandy Bullock) is making everyone at the FBI look bad, even the sniffer dogs, but she ain’t so good with the people skills so her boss sends her to try and get along with the Boston PD

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Edinburgh International Film Festival 2013: Oh Boy

by Patrick Harley 28 June 2013

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Dumped by his girlfriend, banned from driving and cut-off by a father sick of funding his sedentary lifestyle, it’s safe to say that 27 year-old Berlin slacker Niko (Tom Schilling) is not having a very good day.

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¡Viva! Spanish and Latin American Film Festival 2013

by Rob Keeling 8 March 2013

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The ¡Viva! Spanish and Latin American Film Festival returns once again to Cornerhouse in Manchester this March and as ever there is a tantalising range of movies on offer. Historical dramas, coming of age stories, off-beat comedies and gripping documentaries are just a taste of the genres that will be on show from Friday 8th […]

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In Review: Cockneys vs Zombies on DVD

by Maryann O'Connor 26 October 2012

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You may be aware that recently an inconsequential number of sporting events took place in East London, events that required years and years of building work in deserted industrial land. In short, a place that you might find some juicy old zombies hanging out, waiting to nibble on some unsuspecting building site worker’s earlobes or […]

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COFILMIC Comedy Film Festival: Programme Announced

by Rob Keeling 12 October 2012

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The second annual COFILMIC festival, showcasing the best in short comedy films, sitcoms and sketches is rapidly approaching. It’s being held once again at Manchester’s Comedy Store and will be taking place on Monday 29 th and Tuesday 30 th of October.

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COFILMIC Comedy Film Festival Update

by Rob Keeling 22 August 2012

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The upcoming COFILMIC comedy film festival has announced some pretty stellar new prizes and has extended the submission deadline accordingly. With the event itself taking place on the 29-30 th October, prospective filmmakers now have until the 5 th September to get their entries in.

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In Review: Elfie Hopkins

by Janet Awe 21 April 2012

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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

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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

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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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