Comedy

For his new film Get Him to the Greek Russell Brand is once more starring as Aldous Snow, the rock star first seen in Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

The new movie isn’t exactly a sequel, but is being sold as a spin-off from Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Jonah Hill (above left) plays Aaron Green, a young music intern at a record company, whose job it is to go to London and escort the great rock legend Aldous Snow to Los Angeles where he is due to start his world tour.

The title might not make much sense in the UK, but it isn’t so strange when you know that ‘the Greek’ refers to a famous Greek Theater in LA where Aldous is to perform, rather than a person hailing from the cradle of European civilisation.

Getting someone on a plane might not sound like hard work, but rock n’ rollers are like naughty puppies that rarely do what they’re told.

Aldous Snow has one thing on his mind: fun. So, his young minder has a job on his hands.

The film, produced by Judd Apatow, has had good reviews. The critics have referred to its rowdy, rude, and ridiculous humour. Brand even manages to bring a little sorrow to his character’s OTT exuberance.

Despite a cryptic title, and an even stranger trailer that reveals nothing about the content of the film, Grant Heslov’s second film ‘The Men Who Stare At Goats’ is an unexpected comedy gem. Read the full story

The scenario may sound familiar: the Earth’s population has been decimated by a virus that turns nearly everyone into flesh-eating zombies. Yes, the zombie genre has certainly been overdone in recent years, but while ‘Zombieland’ isn’t exactly original, the film certainly shouldn’t leave you feeling brain-dead. In a twist on the usual clichés of the genre, debut director Robert Fleischer and his writers Rhett Reese  and Paul Wernick  have created a classic buddy movie that emerges out of the blood and gore. Read the full story

It was definitely a first to be moved to tears and then to hoots of laughter all within the first five minutes of a film. A sure-fire sign that the latest in animation from Pixar is a cinematic treat for viewers both big and small.

‘Up’ tells the story of a boy’s journey through life to old age, illustrating the ups and downs, the joys, sorrows, triumphs, and regrets that he experiences through friendship, romance and marriage. And all in 89 minutes, which is no mean feat. Read the full story

Not since Nic Cage drained the dregs of his hipflask in Leaving Las Vegas has so much booze been sunk in Nevada’s Sin City…
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Carter Chambers (Morgan Freeman) is a mechanic who is told by the hospital that he has Cancer. Edward Cole (Jack Nicholson) is a billionaire that runs Hospitals “not Health Clubs” and after coughing up some blood goes for tests and also is told he has Cancer. They both end up in the same room as each other in one of Cole’s own hospitals. Once together there is some initial friction between the two but eventually, brought together by their illness they begin to get on and Carter starts writing a bucket list which is basically a list of things to do before you die. Of course Edward gets involved and as he is a billionaire he can make it happen; and so they leave the hospital to fulfil the things written on the list.
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Despite making a promising start on the indie scene initially with The Good Girl, it looks like former Friend girl Jennifer Aniston has made a decision to go back to what she does best. And so after He’s Just Not That Into You and Marley & Me, next up we have another another romantic comedy (with several more on in the bag for next year too). Read the full story

American Pie has a lot to answer for, not least the copious amount of sequels and spin-offs it given has us – although the film’s involvement in the creation of the teen gross-out genre is the main offence up for question here. Some of the offerings the genre has spawned have been good, some have been bad – but if you imagined a hybrid of them all, you’d probably get Fired Up.
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