Genre Comedy
Zombieland
When Mad Cow Disease turned the world into flesh-eaters, there were very few humans left. “My friends, this is now the United States of Zombieland,” our young protagonist tells us.
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A Serious Man
This marks the Coen Brothers’ return, after the so-so star spangled affair that was Burn After Reading, to a more Fargo-esque approach to film making, and one that gets back in touch with their own youth.
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Going the Distance
Going the Distance is a sharp romantic comedy that paints a truthful and funny picture of what it’s like to have a long distance relationship.
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Fantastic Mr. Fox
The film is more than a simple adaption of the much-loved story. It is a wholesale re-imagining of Dahl’s work.
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Paper Heart
Paper Heart is an ostensibly harmless indie film about love, that, when stripped of its oh-so-quirky gloss coat, reveals a far more intelligent animal
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Funny People
It’s fair to say that Sandler has a somewhat patchy back-catalogue. To my recollection, he’s adept at making brash, shouty, silly, sporty, shouty, angry, shouty films.
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Brüno
Baron Cohen certainly knows how to push buttons, his success largely based on the ability to exploit the fears and prejudices of those around him, and nowhere is it done better, or to such a sheer volume, than in Brüno.
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In The Loop
Politicians lie, cheat, ass-kiss and then lie some more, just to get ahead. And there you have the basic premise to Armando Iannucci’s In The Loop.
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How to Lose Friends and Alienate People
The story, based on Toby Young’s memoirs of the same name, sees a struggling English journalist presented with a job offer from one of New York’s celeb magazines
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