Sort these articles by: Title (Alphabetically) | Date (latest first) Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
14 November, 2004
Finally... a second serving of the Bridget
Jones has arrived to brighten up our screens. The film, released
on Monday Novem...
DVD - Back To The Future Trilogy
8 February, 2006
Starring: Michael J Fox, Christopher Lloyd
It's been twenty years since the adventures of Marty McFly and Doc Brown
first hit our screens, but this collect...
DVD - Bride and Prejudice
30 April, 2006
To be absolutely clear, whilst this does include a character called Mr Darcy,
some weddings, people falling in love with the wrong people and a mother
des...
DVD - it2i2
2 May, 2006
Mockumentaries can be very confusing things. On the one hand, you have the
outstanding excellence of Spinal Tap, the original and possibly still the best.
...
DVD - The Big Lebowski
2 June, 2005
The Big Lebowski has a devout online following, as befits this sort of film.
It is, not to put too fine a point on it, a cult film.
By which of course I me...
DVD - The Very Best of the Muppets
2 June, 2005
The Muppet show gives us the best of Jim Henson's warped imagination. This,
the Very Best of the Muppet Show, is a concentrated version.
You forget just ho...
DVD Review - Bill Bailey Part Troll
26 January, 2006
I can proudly state that I have been a Bill Bailey fan for a good long while
now. I first saw him at Brighton University, then the Reading Festival before h...
DVD Review - Chasing Amy
10 May, 2005
This is the third film from Kevin Smith, following Mallrats and Clerks. It's
possibly a little different than you might expect.
The story concerns one Ho...
DVD Review - Dogma
2 June, 2005
Dogma, a film by Kevin Smith (who also directed Chasing
Amy), is a somewhat complicated film.
On the one hand, it's a knockabout comedy about a pair of dis...
DVD Review - Get Shorty
7 April, 2005
Starring: John Travolta, Gene
Hackman, Rene Russo, Danny DeVito
Cert: 15
Released:21st March 2005
Chili Palmer (Travolta) is a
...
DVD Review - Red Dwarf Series 3
4 February, 2005
DVD Review – Red Dwarf Season 3
Chris Barrie, Craig Charles and Danny John-Jules returned with new cast
members Hattie Hayridge and Robert Llewellyn for th...
DVD Review - Red Dwarf Series 4
7 February, 2005
Red Dwarf Series 4 DVD Review
Watching Red Dwarf Series Four reminded me of how good sci-fi TV can be, and
how far behind it several other series were. Thi...
DVD Review - Red Dwarf Series 5
19 May, 2005
Another year, another Red Dwarf series to
enjoy.
The regular cast members are all here, with familiar locations. The action
moves around a little more th...
DVD Review - Red Dwarf Series Six
5 April, 2005
Red Dwarf Series Six DVD Box Set
Finally, we have arrived at my own personal favourite season of
the beyond-cult sitcom Red Dwarf. Series Six was where t...
DVD Review - School Of Rock
21 April, 2005
Wildly improbable, occasionally just silly, but continuously funny.
That's the short version.
The long version of this review is that Jack Black (who actua...
DVD Review - Team America: World Police
2 June, 2005
Starring (the voices of): Matt
Stone, Trey Parker
Cert: 15
Released: 23rd May
2005
With the rise in terrorist
threats around the World, an in...
DVD Review - The Day Today
26 April, 2004
Love him or loathe him, there
is no denying that over the last decade the work of Chris Morris has made a huge
impact on British television comedy....
DVD Review - There’s Something (More) About Mary
2 May, 2004
Starring: Cameron Diaz, Matt Dillon, Ben Stiller, Lee
Evans
Dir: Peter & Bobby
Farelly
Cert: 15
DVD Release:3rd May 2004
T...
DVD Review – Bubba Ho-Tep
25 March, 2005
Starring: Bruce Campbell, Ossie
Davis
Released:21st March 2005
Cert: 15
Imagine this (if you can) that
The King (Elvis (Campbell)) isn’t dead b...
DVD Review – Comic Aid: Live & Uncut
21 March, 2005
Featuring:
Bill Bailey, Jo Brand, Bo’Selecta Bear, Derren Brown, Jimmy Carr, Julian Clary,
Jack Dee, Otis Lee Crenshaw, Jon Culshaw, Omid Djali, Lee Ev...
DVD Review – Shaolin Soccer
5 April, 2005
Starring: Stephen Chow, Vicki
Zhao
Released:14th March 2005
Cert: 12
“Mighty Iron Leg” Sing (Chow) is
a devoted follower to the martial art of ...
DVD Review: Acorn Antiques The Musical!
31 March, 2006
Starring: Julie Walters, Celia Imrie, Duncan Preston, Josie Lawrence,
Neil MorrisseyCert: 15
The long awaited DVD of the stage musical version of the spoof...
DVD Review: Adam & Paul
20 July, 2006
Starring: Tom Murphy, Mark O'HalloranCert: 15
Adam (O'Halloran) and Paul (Murphy) are about to embark on the worst - yet
possibly best - day of their lives...
DVD Review: American Dreamz
13 July, 2006
Starring: Hugh Grant, Dennis Quaid, Willem Defoe, Mandy Moore, Jennifer
CoolidgeCert: 12
Martin Tweed (Grant), or 'Tweedy' to his friends, is the presenter...
DVD Review: Bad News Bears
4 March, 2006
Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Greg KinnearCert: 12
Morris Buttermaker (Thornton) is a bit of a loser. He earns a living as a
pest controller but does not t...
DVD Review: Broken Flowers
27 April, 2006
Starring: Bill Murray, Jeffrey Wright, Sharon Stone, Jessica
LangeCert: 15
Don Johnston (Murray) is an ageing lothario. He made a lot of money in
'comput...
DVD Review: Churchill: The Hollywood Years
13 July, 2005
Starring: Christian Slater,
Neve Campbell, Lesley Phillips.
Cert: 15
An American lieutenant visits the British Prime
Minister (John Culshaw) with some...
DVD Review: Envy
6 July, 2006
Starring: Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Christopher Walken, Rachel
WeiszCert: 12
Tim Dingman (Stiller) and Nick Vanderpark (Black) are neighbours, work
collea...
DVD Review: Futtock's End
6 July, 2006
Starring: Ronnie Barker, Michael HordernCert:
General Futtock (Barker) owns a large manor house and receives a telegram
that his niece is coming to visit a...
DVD Review: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
7 June, 2006
Starring: Robert Downey Jr, Val Kilmer, Michelle Monaghan, Corbin
BernsenCert: 15
Harry Lockhart (Downey Jr) is a small-time crook and during his latest ca...
DVD Review: Napoleon Dynamite
14 July, 2005
Starring: Jon Heder
Cert: PG
Napoleon (Heder) lives in a small American town with his
Grandmother and brother where, at his high school, he is a social ...
DVD Review: The 40 Year Old Virgin
8 February, 2006
Starring: Steve Carell, Catherine Keener, Paul Rudd, Jane
LynchCert: 15
Andy Stitzer (Carell) spends his life by himself. He lives on his own, rides
a bi...
DVD Review: The Family Stone
11 May, 2006
Starring: Sarah Jessica Parker, Dermot Mulroney, Luke Wilson, Claire
Danes, Diane Keaton, Craig T. Nelson, Rachel McAdamsCert: 12
Everett Stone (Mulroney) ...
DVD Review: The Weather Man
20 July, 2006
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Michael Caine, Hope DavisCert: 15
David Spritz (Cage) is a bright and breezy weatherman on a Chicago news
channel. Unfortunately fo...
Film - Analyze That
10 February, 2003
Released: Feb 28Certificate: 15Starring: Robert De Niro, Billy
Crystal, Lisa Kudrow, Joe Viterelli
This may not have been a much hyped sequel to Analyze Th...
Film - Jackass the Movie
10 February, 2003
Released: Feb 28thCertificate: 18Starring: Johnny Knoxville, Bam
Margera, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Jason 'Wee Man' Acuna
"It's the End of the World as we kn...
Film - Just Married
5 March, 2003
Released: March 28Certificate: 12AStarring: Ashton Kutcher, Brittany
Murphy, Christian Kane, David Moscow
What happens when you write a young romantic come...
Film - Maid In Manhatten
5 March, 2003
Certificate: PGReleased: March 7thStarring: Jennifer Lopez, Ralph
Fiennes, Natasha Richardson, Stanley Tucci, Bob Hoskins
Ah, the old favourite. A maid at ...
Film - Rumour Has It
30 January, 2006
Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Costner, Shirley MacLaine, Mark Ruffalo
Cert: 12A
This has got an absolute roasting. Critics have been queuing up to slate...
Film - Two Weeks Notice
10 February, 2003
Released: Feb 7thCertificate: 12AStarring: Hugh Grant, Sandra
Bullock, Dana Ivey, Robert Klein, Alicia Witt
I'd seen the trailer for this a couple of times...
Film Review - 50 First Dates
21 April, 2004
Released: 9th
April
Cert: 12a
Starring: Adam Sandler, Drew
Barrymore
I'm not going to waste anyone's
time here. If you like...
Film Review - Blackball
5 September, 2003
Blackball is
a simple comedy film, based on a true story of lawn bowls. We are of
course not referring to some form of breakfast-cerial recepti...
Film Review - Bruce Almighty
28 June, 2003
Rated: 12A
Go to see a Jim Carrey movie and you pretty much know what you are going to
get. Funny faces, falling over, silly voices and all the usual...
Film Review - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3 May, 2004
Starring: Jim Carrey, Kate
Winslet
Cert: 15
Released: 30th
April
I’m not sure whether this is
actually a comedy, per se,&...
Film Review - How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days
4 April, 2003
Released: April 18thCertificate: 12ACast: Kate Hudson, Matthew
McConaughey, Adam Goldberg, Michael Michele
Look everyone, it's yet another romantic comedy....
Film Review - Shanghai Knights
4 April, 2003
Released: April 4thCertificate: 12ACast: Jackie Chan, Owen Wilson,
Fann Wong, Aidan Gillen
If you saw the previous installment of these characters, Shangha...
Film Review - Shaun Of The Dead
12 April, 2004
If you have forced yourself to sit all the way through any
of the recent horror/spoof/comedy movies to come out of Hollywood lately, then
you probably ...
Film Review - Welcome To Collinwood
4 April, 2003
Released: April 25thCertificate: 15Cast: Luis Guzman, Sam Rockwell,
Patricia Clarkson, Isaiah Washington, William H. Macy
The oft neglected heist-gone-wron...
Film Review – Be Cool
19 May, 2005
Film Review – Be Cool
Starring: John Travolta, Uma
Thurman, Christina Milian, Danny DeVito
Cert: 12a
Released:1st April 2005
Chili Palmer (Travolta) i...
Film Review – Hitch
22 March, 2005
Starring: Will Smith, Eva Mendes,
Kevin James
Released:4th March 2005
Cert: 12a
Hitch (Smith) is an urban myth;
he is ‘The Date Doctor’, an exp...
Film Review – I ♥ Huckabees
25 November, 2004
Starring: Jason Schwartzman,
Dustin Hoffman, Lily Tomlin, Jude Law, Mark Wahlberg
Released:26th November 2004
Cert: 15
Albert (Schwartzman) is th...
Film Review – Meet The Fockers
11 February, 2005
Starring: Ben Stiller, Robert De
Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Barbra Streisand
Released:28th Jan 2005
Cert: 12A
It’s bee...
Film Review – Racing Stripes
26 February, 2005
Starring: Frankie Muniz, Dustin
Hoffman, Whoopie Goldberg
Released:11th Feb 2005
Cert: PG
A zebra foal gets adopted by a
mid-western ...
Film Review – Robots
22 March, 2005
Starring (the
voices of): Ewan McGregor, Robin Williams, Halle
Berry , Greg Kinnear, Mel Brooks
Released: 18th March 2005
Cert: U
...
Film Review – Shark Tale
21 October, 2004
Cert: U
Starring (the voices of): Will
Smith, Jack Black, Robert De Niro, Renée Zellweger
Released:15th October 2004
Oscar (Smith) is the proverb...
Film Review – Sideways
26 February, 2005
Starring:
Paul Giamatti,Thomas Haden Church,
Virginia Madsen
Released: 4th Feb 2005
Cert: 15
Miles (Giamatti) is Jack’s (Haden...
Film Review – The Incredibles
7 December, 2004
Starring (the voices of): Craig
T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Jason Lee, Samuel L Jackson
Released:26th November 2004
Cert: U
Pixar’s latest o...
Film Review – Valiant
3 April, 2005
Starring (the voices of): Ewan
McGregor, Ricky Gervais, Jim Broadbent, John Cleese
Released: 25th March 2005
Cert: U
It’s WWII and Valiant ...
Film Review: A Cock and Bull Story
31 January, 2006
Starring: Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Jeremy Northam, Kelly Macdonald,
Dylan Moran, David Walliams, Ashley Jensen, Stephen FryCert: 15Released:
20th January...
Film Review: Alien Autopsy
12 April, 2006
Starring: Declan Donnelly, Ant McPartlin, Bill Pullman, Harry Dean
Stanton, Omid DjaliliCert: 12AReleased: 7th April 2006
Top documentarian Morgan Banner (...
Film Review: Around The World In 80 Days
27 June, 2004
Starring: Jackie Chan, Steve
Coogan, Jim Broadbent
Cert: PG
Basically, it’s the late
19th Century in London (England as Hollywood feels it neces...
Film Review: Big Momma's House 2
6 February, 2006
Film Review: Big Momma's House 2Starring: Martin LawrenceCert:
PG Released: 10th February 2006
Malcolm Turner (Lawrence) is no longer the loose cannon ...
Film Review: Chicken Little
8 February, 2006
Starring (the voices of): Zach Braff, Joan Cusak, Steve Zahn, Patrick
StewartCert: UReleased: 10th February 2006
An alarm bell is ringing in the small town...
Film Review: Clerks II
25 September, 2006
Starring: Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Rosario Dawson, Jason
Mewes, Kevin SmithCert: 15Released: 22nd September 2006
Dante (O'Halloran) and Randall (An...
Film Review: Date Movie
12 March, 2006
Starring: Alyson Hannigan, Tony Cox, Eddie Griffin, Fred Willard,
Jennifer CoolidgeCert: 12AReleased: 24th February 2006
Julia (Hannigan) is fat, ugly and ...
Film Review: Failure To Launch
15 April, 2006
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Sarah Jessica Parker, Zooey Deschanel,
Kathy BatesCert: 12AReleased: 31st March 2006
Tripp (McConaughey) is a mid-thirties b...
Film Review: Flushed Away
12 December, 2006
Starring (the voices of): Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, Ian McKellen,
Bill Nighy, Jean RenoCert: UReleased: 1st December 2006
Roddy (Jackman) is a pampered p...
Film Review: Fun With Dick And Jane
27 January, 2006
Starring: Jim Carrey, Téa Leoni, Alec BaldwinCert: 12AReleased:
20th January 2006
Dick (Carrey) has a good job with a thriving corporation that he enjoys a...
Film Review: Garfield
10 September, 2004
Starring:
Bill Murray (voice), Breckin Meyer, Jennifer Love Hewitt
Cert: U
Garfield is a fat cat who has
everything going his way. Until his o...
Film Review: Happy Feet
11 December, 2006
Starring (the voices of): Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Hugh Jackman, Nicole
KidmanCert: UReleased: 8th December 2006
On the ice plains of the Antarct...
Film Review: Herbie: Fully Loaded
23 August, 2005
Starring: Lindsay Lohan, Michael Keaton, Matt Dillon Cert:
U Released: 12th August 2005
Herbie, the VW Beetle with a life of it's own, used to be a World-...
Film Review: Ice Age: The Meltdown
6 April, 2006
Starring (the voices of): Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Dennis Leary,
Queen LatifahCert: UReleased: 7th April 2006
Sid the sloth (Leguizamo) has gained himse...
Film Review: Jersey Girl
25 June, 2004
Starring: Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler,
George Carlin
Cert: 12a
Released:18th June 2004
Ben is a successful publicist in
New York who falls for ...
Film Review: Keeping Mum
11 December, 2005
Starring: Rowan Atkinson, Kristen Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith, Patrick
SwayzeCert: 15Released: 2nd December 2005
Forty-three years ago pretty, polite and pr...
Film Review: Kung Fu Hustle
5 July, 2005
Starring:
Stephen Chow
Cert: 15
Released:24th June 2005
Sing (Chow) is a down and out and
having been disillusioned about the benefits of being...
Film Review: Little Miss Sunshine
30 October, 2006
Starring: Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette, Steve Carell, Alan
ArkinCert: 15Released: 8th September 2006
The Hoovers are a somewhat disjointed family. Father, R...
Film Review: Lucky Number Slevin
24 March, 2006
Starring: Josh Hartnett, Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Sir Ben
Kingsley, Lucy LiuCert: 18Released: UK - 24th February 2006; US - 7th
April 2006
Slevin (H...
Film Review: Madagascar
19 July, 2005
Starring (the voices of): Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David
Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith
Cert: U
Released: 15th July
2005
Marty the zebra (Rock),...
Film Review: Monster-In-Law
17 May, 2005
Starring: Jennifer Lopez, Jane
Fonda, Michael Vartan, Wanda Sykes
Cert: 12A
Released:13th May 2005
Charlie (Lopez) is such a ‘nice’
gir...
Film Review: Mr. & Mrs. Smith
16 June, 2005
Starring: Brad Pitt, Angelina
Jolie
Cert: 15
Released:10th June 2005
John (Pitt) and Jane (Jolie)
Smith have been married for five ...
Film Review: Nanny McPhee
2 December, 2005
Film Review: Nanny McPheeStarring: Emma Thompson, Colin Firth,
Celia Imrie, Imelda Staunton, Angela LansburyCert: UReleased: Out
now
Cedric Brown (Firth)...
Film Review: Night At The Museum
11 January, 2007
Starring: Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, Ricky Gervais, Dick Van
DykeCert: PGReleased: 26th December 2006
Larry (Stiller) is an unaccomplished dreamer. He ha...
Film Review: Over The Hedge
29 June, 2006
Starring (the voices of): Bruce Willis, Garry Shandling, Steve Carell,
Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Wanda Sykes, William Shatner, Nick Nolte, Avril
Lavi...
Film Review: Prime
1 June, 2006
Starring: Uma Thurman, Meryl Streep, Bryan GreenbergCert:
12Released: 12th May 2006
Raphael (Thurman) is 37 years old and has just been divorced from her h...
Film Review: RV
12 June, 2006
Starring: Robin Williams, Jeff Daniels, Cheryl Hines, Kristin
ChenowithCert: PGReleased: 9th June 2006
Bob Munroe (Williams) is devoted to his family and h...
Film Review: Scary Movie 4
10 May, 2006
Starring: Craig Bierko, Anna Faris, Leslie NielsonCert:
15Released: 13th April 2006
Tom Ryan (Bierko) is a blue-collar crane operator going through a divor...
Film Review: Shrek 2
22 July, 2004
Starring (the voices of): Mike
Myers, Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy
Cert: U
We left Shrek and Princess Fiona
driving off into the sunset to live ...
Film Review: Smokin' Aces
17 January, 2007
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Jeremy Piven, Ray
Liotta, Ben Afleck, Andy Garcia, Alicia Keys, Jason BatemanReleased: 12th
January 2007Cert: 18
Buddy 'Aces' Is...
Film Review: Snakes On A Plane
28 August, 2006
Starring: Samuel L Jackson, Julianna MarguliesCert: 15Released: 18th
August 2006
FBI Agent, Neville Flynn (Jackson), is escorting a federal witness from
...
Film Review: Superman Returns
12 July, 2006
Starring: Brandon Routh, Kate Bosworth, Kevin Spacey, James Marsden, Parker
PoseyCert: 12AReleased: 14th July 2006
It's been five years since Superman (Rou...
Film Review: Thank You For Smoking
23 June, 2006
Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Maria Bello, Katie Holmes, Robert Duvall, Sam
Elliott, William H MacyCert: 15Released: 16th June 2006
Nick Naylor (Eckhart) is a l...
Film Review: The Aristocrats
18 September, 2005
Starring: Lots of peopleCert: 18Released: 9th September
2005
There is a joke that has been circulating amongst comedians since the days of
Vaudeville. It...
Film Review: The Benchwarmers
8 June, 2006
Starring: Rob Schneider, David Spade, Jon Heder, Jon Lovitz,Cert:
12AReleased: 2nd June 2006
Gus (Schneider) is the local suburban gardener. Clark (Heder) ...
Film Review: The Big White
5 April, 2006
Starring: Robin Williams, Holly Hunter, Giovanni Ribisi, Woody
HarrelsonCert: 15Released: 24th March 2006
Paul Barnell (Williams) runs a travel agency in A...
Film Review: The Dukes of Hazzard
31 August, 2005
Starring: Seann William Scott, Johnny Knoxville, Burt Reynolds, Jessica
SimpsonCert: 12AReleased: 26th August 2005
Bo (William Scott) and Luke (Knoxville) ...
Film Review: The Ladykillers
22 June, 2004
Starring: Tom Hanks
Cert: 15
Released:25th June 2004
An eclectic band of men have
devised the perfect crime to acquire $1.6 million but because o...
Film Review: The Longest Yard
13 September, 2005
Starring: Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Burt ReynoldsCert:
12AReleased: 9th September 2005
Ex-American Football star-quarterback, Paul Crewe (Sandler), hasn't ...
Film Review: The Man
23 September, 2005
Starring: Samuel L Jackson, Eugene Levy, Luke GossCert:
15Released: 9th September 2005
Vann (Jackson) is a hard as nails FBI agent who is being scrutinised...
Film Review: The Matador
30 March, 2006
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Greg Kinnear, Hope DavisCert:
15Released: 3rd March 2006
Julian (Brosnan) is a hitman on the edge. He is at the top of his game
...
Film Review: The Pacifier
10 June, 2005
Starring: Vin Diesel
Cert: PG
Released:3rd June 2005
Shane Wolfe (Diesel) is the top
Navy Seal in the
...
Film Review: The Perfect Catch
24 August, 2005
Starring: Jimmy Fallon, Drew BarrymoreCert: PGReleased: 19th
August 2005
Ben (Fallon) is a contented teacher in Boston and also a fan of the local
baseba...
Film Review: The Pink Panther
1 April, 2006
Starring: Steve Martin, Jean Reno, Kevin Kline, Beyonce
KnowlesCert: PGReleased: 17th March 2006
The French National Football team manager (Jason Statham) ...
Film Review: The Producers
6 January, 2006
Starring: Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Will Ferrell, Uma
ThurmanCert: 12AReleased: 26th December 2005
Max Bialystock (Lane) used to be a great Broadway ...
Film Review: The Shaggy Dog
5 April, 2006
Starring: Tim Allen, Robert Downey Jr, Kristin DavisCert:
UReleased: 31st March 2006
Dave Douglas (Allen) is due to be the city's next district attorney bu...
Film Review: The Wedding Date
14 May, 2005
Starring: Debra Messing, Dermot
Mulroney
Cert: 12A
Released: 22nd
April
Kat’s (Messing) sister is getting
married and unfortunately for her, her ...
Film Review: The Wild
6 June, 2006
Starring (the voices of): Kiefer Sutherland, Jim Belushi, Eddie Izzard,
Janeane Garofalo, Richard Kind, William ShatnerCert: UReleased: 26th May
2006
Sam...
Film Review: You, Me And Dupree
28 August, 2006
Film Review: You, Me And DupreeStarring: Owen Wilson, Matt Dillon, Kate
Hudson, Michael DouglasCert: 12AReleased: 25th August 2006
Carl (Dillon) and Molly ...
Flim Review: Wimbledon
1 October, 2004
Starring: Paul Bettany, Kirsten
Dunst
Cert: 12a
Released:24th September 2004
An underachieving, well spoken,
good looking, nice, English guy h...
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
7 February, 2004
In the 1980's the horror writing genius and self confessed "sooth"
Garth Marenghi penned a ground-breaking series of tele-plays. Of the 64
epi...
Johnny Vegas - Who's Ready For Ice Cream? (DVD)
11 November, 2003
Having seen Johnny Vegas doing the rounds on TV recently, and never
having seen his stand-up act, I was impressed by his quick wittedness
accompanied by m...
Little Britain Review
5 October, 2003
Since
"The Fast Show" left our screens the world has been deprived of a truly great
character comedy that could even hope to fill it's shoes, at least no...
Peter Kay - Live at Bolton Albert Halls (DVD & Video)
22 November, 2003
There are many things that have in the past been a mystery to me.
Things that I have laid awake at night wondering about. 'Why do
Kamikaz...
Radio Times Guide To TV Comedy
2 November, 2003
The other day something was squeezed through the Funny.co.uk letter
box. Unfortunately it was a large dog turd on a stick, probably because we
left ...
Ricky Gervais Live - Animals (DVD)
15 November, 2003
Regular readers of Funny.co.uk will know how highly we
regard "The
Office
" and thus the incredible contribution to British comedy made by it'...
That Mitchell and Webb Sound
4 October, 2003
I can't remember what I was doing between 6.30 and 7.00pm on
Thursday. Probably painstakingly resizing a picture of some B-list
comedian so it fits ...
The I.T. Crowd
4 February, 2006
The IT crowd is the new sitcom from Graham Linehan (pictured), best known in these parts
as the creator of Father Ted.
The three occupants of the basemen...
The Office - Christmas Special (Review & Video Clip)
28 December, 2003
If there was ever a task to make any writer feel the
pressure of living up to past glories then writing "The
Office" Christmas special was it. Ricky...
The Office - The Complete Second Series DVD
6 November, 2003
In what seems like no time at all "The office" has become a landmark of
British comedy. It has done more than any other show in recent years to
hand...
TV - Everybody Hates Chris
21 March, 2006
Chris Rock is, fair to say, not exactly universally liked. Some find him a
little too confrontational, some find him too loud, some people just think he
h...
TV Review - All Star Comedy Show
1 May, 2004
The All Star
Comedy Show
Thursday 29th April, 10pm , ITV1
Was it everything that the title
would have had us believe? It did indeed contain a he...
TV Review - Have I Got News For You
17 April, 2005
If this is election time, then surely the BBC will oblige by presenting
us with a brand news series of possibly the most well-loved satirical TV show
sinc...
TV Review - Hyperdrive
12 January, 2006
The sci-fi comedy is a difficult programme to make. After all, various
unintentionally funny programmes already exist, and some sci-fi now appears to
have...
TV Review - Jim Davidson On the Road
18 June, 2004
Regular readers of Funny.co.uk (and most of the rest of the UK comedy press
too) will know that we've had a few problems with Jim Davidson in recent
years...
TV Review - TV Heaven, Telly Hell
3 April, 2006
George Orwell has a lot to answer for. OK, he wrote books of unsurpassable
anger and brilliance, and wore an excellent moustache, but, by creating Big
Bro...
TV Review: Extras
2 August, 2005
Starring: Ricky Gervais
BBC Two, Thursdays, 9pm
Written and directed by The Office team of Ricky Gervais and Stephen
Merchant; Extras sees Gervais playing...
TV Review: Man Stroke Woman
17 November, 2005
They might have the market sewn up when it comes to introducing
breakthrough new sketch shows, thanks to the all-conquering Little Britain, but
it appears...
TV Review: Monkey Trousers
24 May, 2005
TV Review: Monkey Trousers
Starring: Vic Reeves, Bob
Mortimer, Steve Coogan, John Thomson
ITV1: Friday10pm
ITV2: Thursday 10pm
Spinning off
from ...
TV Review: The Keith Barret Show
5 July, 2004
Fans of Rob Brydon are likely to already be familiar with his character
"Keith Barret" from the successful BBC TV series 'Marrion and Geoff', and it's
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