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The Midnight Beast - Book At Us Now

Unfunny pop-parody book designed to cash in on upcoming TV fame

18 Oct 2011

(Coronet) ‘We mock the living hell out of stuff for a living,’ claim London pop parody trio The Midnight Beast. Even in this disposable age, simply poking fun at more talented people can only stretch so far before the game is up. Success rarely…

Peter Kay and Su-Bo spoof to be released worldwide

TV Gossip

21 Mar 2011

Peter Kay and Susan Boyle's hilarious Comic Relief spoof could be set for worldwide success. The duo - who performed cheesy love song 'I Know Him So Well' during Friday night's (19.03.11) charity telethon - saw the track shoot straight to the top of…

MacGruber

3 Jun 2010

(15) 98min After the deluge of unfocused Scary Movie/Date Movie parodies, green shoots of comedic recovery arrived in the form of last year’s witty blaxploitation spoof Black Dynamite and this revival of Saturday Night Live character MacGruber, an…

Superhero Movie

5 Jun 2008

SPOOF/COMEDY (12A) 85min The presence of Airplane’s David Zucker amongst the executive producers and Leslie Nielsen amongst the cast raises hopes that Superhero Movie might offer a classier strain of parody than Date Movie or Meet the Spartans. Alas…

Hot Fuzz

(15) 120min

12 Feb 2007

COMEDY/SPOOF It is slightly depressing that the highest grossing British films of last year and this were, and will be, television spin-offs. Last year Sacha Baron Cohen delivered up the better-than-we-probably-deserve feature film Borat, and now…

Sir Kenry at Rawlinson End - DVD review

Sir Kenry at Rawlinson End

27 Nov 2006

SPOOF/COMEDY Confoundedly eccentric, inordinately shambolic and downright hilarious, this one-of-a-kind British cinema oddity plays like a collaboration between Luis Buñuel and the Monty Python team. It’s actually the fever dream of Vivian Stanshall…