I Feel Pretty is the latest comedy film featuring Amy Schumer, one that promotes a positive body image message, with the actor/comedian’s signature style layered on top.
Those, like me, who weren’t alive in the 1970’s won’t remember the heyday of National Lampoon magazine. As a collector of satirical magazines like Mad, and Punch, I’d go so far to suggest that one thing A Futile and Stupid Gesture, the Netflix biopic about Doug Kenney, co-creator and lifeforce behind this Harvard born soft pornographic rag, falling somewhere between Playboy, Mad and the New Yorker in its haphazard content – is that the magazine wasn’t actually very funny.
There is no one who makes me laugh quite so much as Melissa McCarthy and I am excited to see her back on the big screen in all of her hilarious glory in Life of the Party.
Game Night stars Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams and follows a group of friends that regularly meet up for game night, only to find themselves trying to solve a murder mystery at their most recent… Game night.
The Week Of is a new Netflix Original film that reunites comedy legends Adam Sandler and Chris Rock, in what could be a return to form for Sandler’s comedy movie career.
Swinging Safari is a nostalgic look back at 1970’s Australia that will have you laughing while you reminisce about long forgotten memorabilia/artifacts.
A sad, sad movie with a comic undertone, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri follows a mother who uses three billboards to challenge the police in her small town, after her daughter is murdered and the culprit never caught.
In ‘news’ that shocked everyone, Danny McBride is apparently starring in a sequel/spin-off to the original Crocodile Dundee films.
You know the feeling; you’re scanning through the endless titles on a streaming service, you’ve been burned before, taking a risk on an unknown Netflix original film. Will it be as ridiculous as Bright? Or good, like, um… I’m sure there was a good Netflix original film we all liked, right? Just can’t think of anything right now is all… Off the top of my head… They’re there though. Surely. Aren’t they? Surely. Sure they are.
Will Arnett and Ludacris lead the upcoming comedy buddy-cop movie Show Dogs, about the crime-solving team-up of a human police detective and his talking, canine partner.
The Janks Reviews crew have compiled a list of their favourite movies of 2017, and while many films made our team’s lists, these are the top 19 films of the past year that appeared more commonly across the board.
Hardly the “perfect” film the name implies, it took a music video director in Trish Sie to turn the sequel nobody asked for into a series high note.
The new Netflix Original action-comedy film Game Over, Man! comes to us from the creators of the hilarious TV show Workaholics, and it features the same twisted humour that show is well known for.
There’s a new Australian film set to be released early next year, accordingly called The BBQ, which features some Aussie greats such as Shane Jacobson and Magda Szubanski as the legendary barbeque cook ‘The Butcher’.
Featuring an all-star cast and directed by Nash Edgerton, Gringo sees a down-on-his-luck employee get embroiled in a dangerous game with a Mexican drug cartel.
Every so often a family-friendly film comes along that perfectly embodies what the genre so often lacks. Presenting exhibit A: Paddington 2 – the delightful follow-up to the 2014 debut of the well mannered and marmalade-loving bear.
