Archive for the ‘comedy’ Category

So, the interweb rumour mill has cranked into overdrive, this time with the news that Arrested Development is back! There has long been speculation that an Arrested Development movie was in the pipeline, but now comes the news that the movie is to be preceded by a short season, with one episode following each of [...]

From about 15 minutes into watching The Rebound (which a friend and I dubiously picked up off the shelf at Blockbuster on a chick flick afternoon) it became very clear to me that I was developing quite the crush on the handsome, funny Justin Bartha. I mean, I’d seen him in The Hangover, but as [...]

Ok, so let me preface this post by saying, when it comes to movies, I’m a complete sucker for two things – cheesy comedies, and time travel. And so the Gods of Hollywood have heeded my prayers and sent me this, Hot Tub: Time Machine. Could there be anything more awesome? Yes, the fact that [...]

Simon Pegg’s penchant for the comedic macabre continues with the announcement that he has been cast in the film depiction of the ghoulish Regency Edinburgh murderers and grave robbers Burke & Hare. The pair killed 17 people in Edinburgh between 1827 and 1828 selling their corpses to the Edinburgh Medical College for dissection. Pegg will [...]

Word on the street is that the Flight of the Conchords have announced they will not be doing a third season of their hilarious HBO series. *Collective sigh of disappointment* The boys themselves say that “We’re very proud of the two seasons we made, and we like the way the show ended.” And so I [...]