Comedy
-
On this week’s show we pay tribute to the great Hollywood composer James Horner, before reviewing two of this week’s new releases, Seth McFarlane’s Ted 2 and indie horror flick… Read More
-
Proof that fine actors giving strong performances are not always enough to save a movie, Maya Forbes’ Infinitely Polar Bear seems too preoccupied with its 70s period setting and zany… Read More
-
This week on Morning Brew, I share my thoughts with Phil on Brad Bird’s futuristic love letter to Disneyworld, Tomorrowland, as well as Spy, the Melissa McCarthy/Jason Statham espionage comedy.… Read More
-
Long-time screenwriter Lau Ho Leung (Painted Skin, Kung Fu Jungle) makes his directorial debut in this energetic action comedy following a gang of thieves who masquerade as cops to pull… Read More
-
The astonishingly surreal work of Japanese comedian-turned-filmmaker Matsumoto Hitoshi has long been championed here at TwitchFilm, and in some ways his fourth feature film – R100 – transcends anything he… Read More
-
Sandra Ng looks to recapture the comedy and box office gold of her hugely lucrative Golden Chicken series with this cheeky peek at the male end of the Hong Kong… Read More
-
Chow Yun Fat returns for a second helping of comedic hijinks in the follow-up to Wong Jing’s 2014 holiday blockbuster From Vegas To Macau (released in mainland China as The… Read More
-
Jiang Wen follows up the incredible success of 2010’s Let The Bullets Fly with a suitably ostentatious and convoluted yarn about the violent ramifications of a rigged beauty pageant in… Read More
-
On this week’s show, Fernando and James discuss a few of the more prominent new films they have seen, including Morten Tyldum’s multiple Oscar nominee The Imitation Game, Tim Burton’s… Read More
-
Smart, stylish, insightful and brimming with technical inventiveness, Stanley Donen’s Two For The Road is a wonderful examination of the modern marriage whose influence can still be felt in Hollywood… Read More
-
After returning home early to discover his wife in bed with his boss, Judd Altman (Jason Bateman) sees his marriage, career and happy home disintegrate before his eyes. When his… Read More
-
James McAvoy undergoes a bold reinvention to become corrupt, alcoholic, drug-adled Detective Sgt. Bruce Robertson in Jon S. Baird’s spirited adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s novel. Vying for a promotion by… Read More
-
Definitely has moments of laugh out loud humour throughout, but in between (and some of the gaps between laughs are agonisingly long) we are forced to watch what is simply… Read More
-
Taiwanese teen romance about the college princess, worshipped by every boy on campus, who is rescued from a dried up lake by the most awkward geeky guy imaginable. However, this… Read More
-
Dane DeHaan stars as the heartbroken Zach whose girlfriend, Beth (Aubrey Plaza) dies suddenly, apparently from a snakebite while out hiking. As he attempts to get over her death, however,… Read More
-
I’ve been a devotee of the Coen Brothers since early 1992, when Barton Fink became not only the first of their films I saw, but also the first film I… Read More
-
A major disappointment that just feels over worked, under developed and lazily handled by all concerned. While no one could accuse the original Anchorman of having a particularly strong script,… Read More
-
The latest from Kids Police director Fukuda Yuichi is a humorous and mostly successful tale of five young women who are all but coerced into becoming a secret crime fighting… Read More
The James Marsh film review archive 