Tag: comedy
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MIDNIGHT IN PARIS
Cineworld Glasgow, 13.10.11 Midnight In Paris is Woody Allen’s 44th feature film, and already his most successful at the box office. This says a lot about inflation rates and cinema ticket prices, but also points to the popularity of Owen Wilson, in the lead role as Gil, and of the city of Paris, which must…
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RED STATE
Cineworld Glasgow, 05.10.11 Those of us of the right age to have been a teenager in the 1990’s hold a certain soft spot for Kevin Smith. With the grainy, self-funded, low-budget Clerks (1994), Smith found a unique brand of humour that connected with a generation of film-goers crying out for smart, well written comedy that spoke about the world that…
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THE GUARD
Cineworld Glasgow, 09.09.11 John Michael McDonagh’s The Guard is the latest in a handful of Irish comedies in recent years, which utilise the considerable talents of Brendon Gleeson. McDonagh’s brother, Martin, (an executive producer here, along with Don Cheadle) directed the excellent hit In Bruges (2008) starring Colin Farrell, in a career best performance, and Gleeson as hitmen forced to flee to Belgium after a…
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TROLL HUNTER / TROLLJEGEREN
Cineworld Glasgow, 09.09.11 Through negligence on my own part of much knowledge on the national cinema of Norway, and through the general lack of films centered on Trolls, save the fantasy/horror trilogy of the 1980’s and ’90’s (Troll, 1986, John Paul Bucehler and sequels) which I haven’t seen, and have no particular desire to see, the…
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THE INBETWEENERS MOVIE
Odeon East Kilbride, 27.08.11- The very British cinema genre of successful television comedy going to the big screen is one littered with disasters. Think of the poor feature-length versions of On The Buses (1971, Harry Booth), Porridge (1979, Dick Clement), Bean (1997, Mel Smith), or the nadir of them all, the deplorable Kevin & Perry Go Large (2000, Ed Bye). …
Iain Kelly 