Why Melissa McCarthy is the Best Screen Comedian of the Decade Alice Rooney August 21, 2018 Close-Up, Features, Spotlight With The Happytime Murders out this week and Melissa McCarthy’s previous release, Life of the Party, still managing to draw in crowds ready for a guaranteed laugh with the girls, it looks like her magical...
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping – Review Stephen O'Nion August 27, 2016 Reviews Typical. You wait years for a music mockumentary to be released and two come out at once. Handily, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping is the better one - and it’s not even close. Conner4real is the...
Kristen Wiig: Comedy Darling, Drama Queen Rachel Brook April 7, 2016 Analysis, Features, Spotlight This week Kristen Wiig stars in Nasty Baby, perhaps her most indie project yet – aesthetically at least. The trailer seems to promise an inky black sense of humour in the vein of Ben Wheatley’s...
A Beginner’s Guide To… Steve Martin J B Queree August 14, 2015 A Beginner's Guide To..., Analysis, Features For those of us born Millennials or Generation Y-ers, it seems as if Steve Martin was just always there. Now that the comedy legend has racked up his 70th year on the planet, it might be just as apt to ask...
Second Chance: MacGruber Stephen O'Nion March 4, 2015 Features, Nostalgia, Second Chance MacGruber: making life-saving inventions out of household materials. How many films feature a primary antagonist falling to their death? Die Hard, sure. The Return of the King, check. GoldenEye, there’s...
Stories from the Set: The Blues Brothers Olivia Luder May 23, 2014 Behind The Curtain, Features, Stories from the Set Elwood: It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark... and we're wearing sunglasses. Jake: Hit it. Jake and Elwood were on a mission from God but when it came...
