The director and star of Forgetting Sarah Marshall reunite for another offbeat romantic comedy designed to tug on your heartstrings, elbow your tearducts and rabbit-punch your laughter glands in equal measure. The Five-Year Engagement is perfectly watchable, but should rom-coms really be this bloody miserable?
“Now you’re just showing off.” Now, Bruce? Not when he built you a sonar system that used every mobile phone in Gotham or organised for you to be lifted out of a Hong Kong skyscraper directly into a plane? Jesus.
The omnitalented Ben Drew (aka Plan B) adds directing and screenwriting to his CV with a searing debut set in the crime-ridden streets where he grew up. As insightful as Kidulthood, as brutal as Harry Brown and as intrinsically moral as one of Aesop’s Fables, this East End thrillride is the real deal.
The 66th Edinburgh International Film Festival runs from 20 June to 1 July 2012, and we’ve got a pair of tickets to see the opening night film KILLER JOE, ahead of its UK release, to give away!
If you find yourself alone, riding in green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled…
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