comedy

How many Comedies are in your Top 10 movies list? Probably not many. Sure, there are your Shaun of the Dead's and your Holy Grails, but there's something about a Comedy that makes them a difficult sell over time: the laughs wane, the shocks…

Doug Liman teams up once again with the man who makes no mission impossible, Tom Cruise, to relay the tale of one man’s flight of fruitful fancy in a compellingly fascinating and highly entertaining romp of planes, drug-smuggling,…

Stanley Tucci has taken an empty canvas and taken bold and enchantingly humorous strokes of his creative brush on the closing pages of the life of renowned Swiss painter and sculptor Alberto Giacometti with Final Portrait, adding just a dab…

Director Ben Wheatley’s fifth feature arrived in a hail of bullets, 70’s sideburns and incendiary insults. Free Fire’s trailer teased us with a back-to-basics shoot ‘em up that took aim somewhere between Reservoir Dogs and Hard Boiled.   …

Aaaaw! Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you! It's been 30 years since The Lost Boys first graced our screens and it's as if they haven't aged a day! And when you get to the big 3-0, you might be a little too long in the tooth for…

Amidst dueling comments of "the best Spidey ever" and "It's Iron Man 4", Spider-Man Homecoming has reinvigorated the Webbed Wonder. The collective sighs that accompanied news of another reboot seem a distant memory as plans for the…

Last year, Edgar Wright published an extensive list of his favourite films of all time, with 1,000 movies dating back from 1920. With an eclectic cinematic mix of horror, westerns and cult classics, it is easy to see the inspirations behind…

In what has become a calling card of director Edgar Wright, the upcoming release of Baby Driver promises a blend of highly-stylised action, high-octane fun and a soundtrack that gets stuck in your ears like an economy cotton bud. Take a…

"Batman was comedy. Let's face it. What I loved about Batman was his total lack of awareness when it came to his interaction with the outside world. He actually believed nobody could recognise him on the phone, when he was being Bruce…

After a weekend of praise for one female director reaching a breakneck magnitude another, in the form of Alice Lowe, has been bubbling quietly with murderous subtlety with her melancholy comedy horror. A project that breaks the mold in the…