Friday Night Dinner returns for a fourth series with no sign of slowing down with Robert Popper’s quickfire rate of gags. Around this point, you’d expect the average sitcom to have long spent its best, with long swathes of time passing while the family stand around with nothing to do. Not so with FND. It’s […]
Upstart Crow is Ben Elton and David Mitchell‘s contribution to the BBC’s 400th ‘dead Shakespeare’ month-long love-in and, following, Peep Show, I didn’t think the latter could put a foot wrong… But then I heard canned laughter within just 7 seconds of the opening credits ending. Set in the 17th Century, the period setting for […]
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The World’s End saw something that rang true about Simon Pegg‘s character, Gary King, in the last of The Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy. And that is that we’re witness to a man who finished school in June 1990, thought he could take on the world and, to this day, still behaves like a big kid […]
Posted in Blu-ray, Movies, Reviews Tags: Bill Nighy, David Bradley, Eddie Marsan, Edgar Wright, Eric Fellner, Jenny Bede, Mark Heap, Martin Freeman, Nick Frost, Nira Park, Paddy Considine, Pierce Brosnan, Rosamund Pike, Simon Pegg, Steven Price, Thomas Law, Tim Bevan, World's End, the world's end No Comments » There’s something that rang true about Simon Pegg’s character, Gary King, in the last of the Cornetto trilogy, The World’s End. And that is that we’re witness to a man who finished school in June 1990, thought he could take on the world and, to this day, still behaves like a big kid with no […]
Posted in Cinema films, Movies, Reviews Tags: Bill Nighy, David Bradley, Eddie Marsan, Edgar Wright, Eric Fellner, Jenny Bede, Mark Heap, Martin Freeman, Nick Frost, Nira Park, Paddy Considine, Pierce Brosnan, Rosamund Pike, Simon Pegg, Steven Price, Thomas Law, Tim Bevan, the world's end No Comments »Jam was Chris Morris‘ TV version, to a point, of his Radio 1 show “Blue Jam”, something which I tried to listen to but could never get into. Back then I found TV a more pleasing medium, whereas in the past year or two I’ve been listening to many Radio 2 and Radio 4 comedies […]
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