Spy ****
Spy is an espionage hoot with lots of action, silliness and Bond-style antics. It’s easy on the brain, consumable comedy with strong female leads that’s always a breath of fresh air in Hollywood – something Feig is instrumental in pursuing.
Category: Comedy
LFF 2014: Queen and Country ***
Very much a mixed bag of surprises – though poignant – that will leave some fulfilled and others wanting. It will make you laugh at the lunacy of old-school British etiquette that is still alive and kicking in certain institutions today.
Man Up ***
Surprisingly contemporary, fresh and punchy in delivery. More so, we grow fond of Lake very early on that helps matters greatly.
While We’re Young ****
Noah Baumbach makes poignant dramas about characters at a turning point in their lives, and While We’re Young is no exception. It’s about the painful reality of trying to stay youthful and go against societal grain of what you should be doing at fortysomething – a poignant project for Baumbach, himself 45, as well as …
The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out Of Water 3D ****
Trying to explain why a talking yellow sponge is a hilarious concept to the uninitiated is quite impossible (speaking from experience here). That’s why it’s best to just expose them to the insanity that is Spongebob SquarePants and let the chips fall. It’s not to everyone’s taste – and certainly implies the makers are on …
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The Wedding Ringer **
— Everyone likes a happy ending, and weddings are the perfect setting. We all know how this is going end, don’t we? Well that could be the only surprise The Wedding Ringer has to offer because the rest of the bromance comedy feels like a complete rip-off of other in a similar vein – even …
Kingsman: The Secret Service ****
Ever wondered what injecting a Bond film with a bit of comic-book madness would be like? Kick-Ass writer director Matthew Vaughn – who teams up with co-writer Jane Goldman again – has the answer: Kingsman: The Secret Service. It’s part-spy, part comic-book caper that doesn’t take itself seriously. Testament of Youth star Taron Egerton plays …
Annie ***
Beasts of the Southern Wild child star Quvenzhané Wallis drags the character of Annie kicking and screaming into the 21st Century in the 2014 remake. For starters, she often reminds us she’s “not an orphan” but a “foster kid” – a term more commonly recognised these days with unconventional families the norm. She’s still singing …
Dumb and Dumber To ***
It’s been 20 years since Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels gave us the most idiotic but loveable characters Lloyd and Harry. If you didn’t take to them in 1994, you aren’t going to suddenly fall enamoured with they now. The second film is just two ‘grown up’ versions – in the physical not mental sense. …