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29 Jan 2007
COMEDY DRAMA Set in the booming London of the 1990s, Jenny Turner’s debut novel is already a period piece. Her astringent comedy of manners captures ‘media chicks’ and their men, swearing and scheming, cocooned in Canary Wharf, unaware of the cracks…
3 Jan 2007
COMEDY DRAMA At 9.30pm on the first Friday night of 2005, Channel 4 introduced us to the most popular new American comedy in years, My Name is Earl. So, when the exact same slot is filled by another heralded US import, you may well be steadying…
20 Dec 2006
COMEDY DRAMA Inspired by a true story (meaning that the central protagonist is portrayed in a far better light than reality), the dour flavour used to show Chris Gardner’s (Will Smith) rags-to riches story makes this flick easier to admire for its…
12 Oct 2006
COMEDY DRAMA Judging by the predicaments experienced by the anti-hero of his third novel, Ian Pattison looks to be exorcising his Rab C Nesbitt ghosts. Tucker, a fortysomething one-time screenwriter, currently reading scripts to make a living, lives…
10 Oct 2006
COMEDY DRAMA On the page it sounds like a bloody cheek. Knackered from directing his Moroccan medieval epic, Kingdom of Heaven, Ridley Scott takes a paid holiday in the south of France (where he has a house) and tosses off a film adapted from a novel…
1 Sep 2006
COMEDY/DRAMA Meet the Hoover clan from Albuquerque, New Mexico. There’s bankruptcy-facing motivational speaker Dad (Greg Kinnear), a highly stressed Mum (Toni Collette), a Nietzche-obsessed adolescent son Dwayne (Paul Dano) undertaking a vow of…
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