Going Beserk
There’s one essential thing comedies have to achieve to be even slightly successful: being funny. How ever unfair it may seem, when a film that’s meant to be a comedy isn’t funny it automatically fails […]
Comedy
Going Beserk
We’ll Never Have Paris
Romantic comedies need two things to work, and alas We’ll Never Have Paris is never funny or charming enough to feel completely successful. The USP of the movie is that it is based on the […]
Florence Foster Jenkins
There’s a thing that used to happen in the X-Factor (and may still do, I have to confess I haven’t watched it for a while) where deluded fame hungry and tone deaf auditionees would berate the […]
Ratchet & Clank
Movies based on computer games aren’t, it’s fair to say, covered in glory. The sadly departed Bob Hoskins said Super Mario Brothers was the worst thing he ever did and it’s likely that if you’ve seen Street […]
Charters and Caldicott – BBC Series
This delightfully silly series is a huge success for two main reasons. Firstly the casting of Michael Aldridge and Robin Bailey as our investigative heroes Charters and Caldicott is superb. Secondly the script, by ace journalist […]