Stephen Merchant

After successfully putting his unique stamp on the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Taika Waititi attempts his trickiest, most ambitious project to date - Jojo Rabbit. An “anti hate satire” through the eyes of a German child at the tail end of…

Based on the 2012 documentary of the same name, Fighting With My Family sees the sole directorial debut of British comedian Steven Merchant. Starring Lady Macbeth's Florence Pugh, the film follows the journey of the Saraya…

Lisbeth Salander returns.

I'm not crediting everyone individually here, because it would just take too long, but Movie 43 puts together a decent list of names both behind and in front of the camera. It's a comedy movie made up of sketches, connected by a framing…

There was a time when romantic comedies were the shining crown jewel in the British film industry. Thanks to hits such as Four Weddings and a Funeral and Bridget Jones' Diary (2001), the Brits found a way of being uniquely funny - mainly by…

Dwayne Johnson stars in this family film as an ice hockey player known as The Tooth Fairy, thanks to his talent for slamming opposing players so hard that they lose teeth. When he almost tells his girlfriend’s daughter that the tooth fairy…

1998 was a long time ago. This is the key fact that Hall Pass reinforces, the Farrelly Brothers once again failing to live up to the promise of their earlier work. Hall Pass is actually a more ambitious gambit from an emotional standpoint…

The Farrelly Brothers' new comedy, Hall Pass, is about grown men having trouble moving on and is made, without irony, by a pair of grown film-makers who also seem to be having trouble moving on. In that way it resonated sharply with me:…