comedy
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by Oscar O’Sullivan What, to you, is more important when it comes to a story? The actual events, or the way it is told? Some stories sound much more interesting on paper than they are in practice, for example, an adaptation that doesn’t match your imagined picture of the source material. Or the opposite can…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – Liar Liar, Rear Window and Airplane! While Jim Carrey has often proved perfectly capable of giving grounded, dialled-back performances when the film called for it, this is an interesting beast – a perfectly ordinary, straightforwardly sentimental story that Carrey plays to the absolute maximum of his comic buffoonery. It’s as…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – You Only Live Twice Bond cuts straight to the chase this time, already loving up an exotic lady the instant he appears on screen. You Only Live Twice is very much playing the hits – a dangerous vacation to a stunning locale where Bond teams up with local intelligence, uncovers…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – His Name Was King and Joe Kidd It’s easy to be romantic about a genre when all you’ve seen of it is the best examples. Is it strictly necessary to dig into the cast-off excrement of the medium? Once in a blue moon, maybe. Even a turd can contain something…
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