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…
Category: comedy
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 Nice Guys (2016)
There are many people that feel that they are born into the wrong generation – and I count myself as someone who often feels misplaced within the 21st century. I often imagine myself enjoying the idiosyncratic nature of previous decades, and one that I have always felt I have a connection to is the 1970s….
Le Havre (2011)
The most difficult part of my European cinema project has not been actually tracking down some of these films, but rather choosing which films to actually watch. Some countries have such diverse and interesting cinematic histories, and to just choose one film to represent that country is entirely impossible (which is why I am not…
Eddie the Eagle (2016)
To be perfectly clear, I am not a fan of sports movies at all. I find them often boring, clichéd and utterly dull. However, there have been a few sports-themed films that have actually been absolutely brilliant and proven to be thoroughly entertaining, from beginning to end. The rare sports film that is actually brilliant…
Whisky Tango Foxtrot (2016)
First off, let me get something off my chest – the title of this film is absolutely horrible. Now I understand where it comes from – “Whisky Tango Foxtrot” is military slang for the expression “WTF” – but can we just note that they actually chose to use that as the title of a film…
What We Did on Our Holiday (2015)
I love a good British comedy, and while my tastes do tend to go more towards the absurd (perhaps the fact that I was exposed to Monty Python’s Flying Circus very early on shows that), I do adore a straightforward, old-fashioned family comedy, and one of the most adorable and endearing little films of recent…
