Film Review: Downhill (2020)
byThere are notable exceptions – think A Bigger Splash, Some Like it Hot or The Birdcage – but the rule that English-language remakes are…
Will Ferrell
Film Review: Booksmart (2019)
byOnce written off as a fluff genre, the teen girl film is gaining traction as something to be respected. After Lady Bird, The Edge…
Film Review: Stan & Ollie (2018)
byAlongside Charlie Chaplin’s persona as the Tramp and Buster Keaton’s phenomenal use of visual comedy, Laurel and Hardy in their bowler hats dancing to…
Film Review: Daddy’s Home 2 (2017)
byIn 2015’s Daddy Home, stepdad Will Ferrell vied against cool dad Mark Wahlberg for the title of BEST DAD. By the end of the…
Film Review: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016)
byFollowing in the muddy footsteps of Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter is the equally damp Pride and Prejudice and Zombies from director and script writer Burr…
Film Review: Zoolander 2 (2016)
byIt seems that good American comedies are hard to come by these days. In the last year, with the exception of a few female-driven…
Film Review: Get Hard (2015)
byAny film that alludes to an erect penis in its title is not likely to win favour with critics. It is, however, likely to…
Film Review: The Lego Movie (2014)
byOnce upon a time, as an adult, one would have been judged and potentially scoffed at for going to see a kids movie without…
Film Review: Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013)
byPlenty of laughs are to be had with Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues through genuinely astute and witty television journalistic observations, and through some less erudite gags.
Film Review: The Internship (2013)
byThe film is everything you would expect – nothing more and nothing less. Wedding Crashers stars Vaughn and Wilson play the only characters they know how to play, and there’s even a cameo from the ubiquitous Will Ferrell.