There is never a shortage of biopics made, with multiple films about various historical figures, either incredibly famous or utterly obscure, coming out every year. Many of these films seem to star Meryl Streep. This year, we were given Florence Foster Jenkins, a bizarre subject for a film biopic, but one that was destined to…
Category: comedy
Love & Friendship (2016)
I have studied English Literature at university, and one course I enjoyed the most was that on satire – and through encounters with various notable satires of the past, I have discovered that one aspect of the arts that has always remained constant is that of comedy. The view that the past was dour and utterly serious…
Ghostbusters (2016)
In all my years of watching and loving films, I have never come across something quite like the reaction to the reboot of Ghostbusters, particularly the pre-mature response by many people who would refuse to see this film for a variety of reasons. I have never seen so much hatred thrown at a film, mainly…
Maggie’s Plan (2016)
Has there been an actress in recent years as divisive as Greta Gerwig? Many people will not know who I am referring to, mainly because she has almost exclusively stuck to independent comedies. She is certainly an acquired taste, and while many people think she is the very definition of why independent cinema is becoming…
A Hologram for the King (2016)
I am not exactly sure why I loved A Hologram for the King – but one thing is for sure, it was a fantastic film, and one I wasn’t expecting to enjoy as much as I did. Considering what an utter disappointment the similarly-themed Whiskey Tango Foxtrot was, I was hesitant about the entire “American…
Dope (2015)
One thing that you learn when you’re a cinephile is that masterpieces are not always found where we expect them to be found, and very often we are taken by surprise, because something about a film doesn’t strike one as being particularly brilliant, but hidden in the often unassuming exterior, there lurks something extraordinary. Dope…
Elvis & Nixon (2016)
There have been some bizarre films made, and sometimes some truly peculiar real-life stories are translated into films. Elvis & Nixon is one of the strangest concepts of a film I’ve ever seen, mainly because the source material is a photograph – but not just any photograph, the world-famous photograph of the fateful meeting between…
Serial (Bad) Weddings (2014)
I consider myself a bit of a student of comedy, mainly because it is a genre of entertainment that has many forms, and some truly innovative things have been created in the name of comedy. However, I sometimes grow weary of the mainstream Hollywood comedy, and while many of them are great, I sometimes just…
The BFG (2016)
I will be the first to admit that I don’t trust anyone that says they don’t like Roald Dahl. The man is perhaps the greatest storyteller of all time, and his books shaped the childhoods of millions of people worldwide, yours truly included. Dahl was an absolute master at writing stories that would live on…
Keanu (2016)
I’ve had a motto all my life – a film is made exponentially better by the presence of a cat or a dog in the film. I’ve seen some animals give better performances than their human co-stars. Now imagine my delight when I discovered the existence of Keanu, a film that is centered around a…
The Postmodern Pelican 