comedy
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STIFF UPPER LIPS
I discovered this amusing parody of all those Merchant/Ivory British period costume dramas when researching the work of late great Peter Ustinov, and it rather tickled me to be reminded of how very silly Brit comedies can be. This one is like an EM Forster novel (with a nod to Thomas Mann’s ‘Death in…
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NORMAN, IS THAT YOU?
If I were Norman I would have never answered the intercom when my father turned up unexpectedly on my door step at 7 am, especially if my boyfriend was still tucked up in bed. Even more so when letting father in meant pushing boyfriend out. But these were very different times, and Norman let his…
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SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS
Marty is a screenwriter who has writer’s block. All his blank page has so far is a title ‘7 Psychopaths’ and nothing else. Quite where he dragged this up is never really explained and as he pours himself his umpteenth drink he also pours out his woes to his best friend petty criminal/would-be actor and…
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FRANKENWEENIE
Tim’s Burton’s latest attempt to scare us is a quite delightful homage to film noir that turns out to rather a tame spoof of a horror movie that makes one laugh rather than cower in fear. It’s a stop-motion animation (that I saw in 3D) about an ingenious young elementary school boy named Victor Frankenstein…
