Tag: Comedy

REVIEW: Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga

(spoiler free) Now available to stream on Netflix is this odd dive into the odder realm of the Eurovision Song Contest. All the world’s a stage for this unison of music starting to try and rebuild relations throughout a post-war torn Europe. However, with the minds of Anchorman and Wedding Crashers behind the curtains, how…

27 Jun 2020
REVIEW: Rising High

(spoiler free) It’s the familiar tale of get rich quick, and not entirely legally, in new German crime drama Rising High. David Kross, previously seen in The Keeper and War Horse, stars as Viktor, a young man with his sights set high. When he meets Gerry, played here by Frederick Lau, the pair enter the…

17 Apr 2020
REVIEW: The Main Event

(spoiler free) “I’ll bring the chaos, bro.” Eleven year-old Leo (Seth Carr) is crazy about WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) to the point where he is dreaming of competing in matches. Lucky for Kofi Kingston’s biggest fan, dreams soon become reality… Like most kids in kids films, Leo has a close group of friends, a group…

10 Apr 2020
REVIEW: Coffee and Kareem

(spoiler free) New on Netflix, Coffee and Kareem sees director Michael Dowse return to the buddy cop genre after his disappointing effort last year, Stuber (2019). This time round his film sees Officer Coffee (Ed Helms) team up with Kareem (Terrence Little Gardenhigh), the son of his new girlfriend, Vanessa (Taraji P. Henson). After witnessing…

3 Apr 2020
REVIEW: Like a Boss

(spoiler free) “Approve memos.” “Promote synergy.” These are just two things a boss would do in the brilliantly-dumb Lonely Island tune “Like a Boss,” but it’s Andy Samberg uttering “Swallow sadness” that fits most with the feeling you’ll get upon watching Miguel Arteta’s new “so-called” comedy. In fact the two minutes of that cocaine-snorting, sewer-dwelling…

16 Feb 2020
Extra Ordinary

(spoiler free) In their feature length directorial debuts Mike Ahern & Enda Loughman bring to life their own screenplay for comedy horror, ‘Extra Ordinary’. This Irish production features a small town narrative following driving instructor Rose Dooley, played by the wonderful Maeve Higgins. However, Rose wasn’t always a driving instructor and her past dealings working…

10 Sep 2019
A Bump Along the Way

(spoiler free) Opening the 2019 Belfast Film Festival back in April, ‘A Bump Along the Way’ is now nearing its cinematic due date for general release. Written by Tess McGowan and directed by Shelly Love ‘A Bump Along the Way’ is set and filmed in Derry, Northern Ireland. The film follows Pamela (Bronagh Gallagher) and…

6 Sep 2019
Stuber

(spoiler free) Dave Bautista and Kumail Nanjiani are the latest Hollywood pair to team up for an unlikely duo/buddy cop caper. ‘Stuber’ tells the story of Stu (Nanjiani), an Uber driver who unwillingly becomes part of a criminal investigation when he picks up LAPD detective, Victor (Bautista) as his next passenger. So is ‘Stuber’ going…

11 Jul 2019
Wine Country

(spoiler free) New Netflix Original ‘Wine Country’ sees the hilarious Amy Poehler take on her feature length directorial debut. The film follows six friends who take a trip to Napa Valley for one of the groups 50th birthday celebrations. From a screenplay by Saturday Night Live writers Emily Spivey & Liz Cackowski the film’s cast…

14 May 2019
LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS, Ranked

From the director of ‘Deadpool’, Tim Miller, comes this brand new eighteen part animated anthology series, ‘Love, Death + Robots’. With director extraordinaire David Fincher also serving as a producer this new Netflix series certainly has the star power behind it but does its content live up to those at the helm? Bringing to life…

5 Apr 2019