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  • Sightseers

    How do you measure the success of a comedic film? Hilarity is such a subjective quality that it differs entirely from person to person. A truly great comedy, then, is one that can offer more than just jokes. Enter Sightseers, the latest work from Ben Wheatley, who has truly surpassed all expectations of what a comedy should be. It’s sweet, a little scary, delightfully surprising and totally endearing. Sightseers will have you smiling ear to ear and will give you far more than just the laughs.




  • Friday Drinking Game #67 – Independence Day

    With the news that Fox has cancelled the 3D post-conversion of the16 year old Independence Day, we’re celebrating by imitating Randy Quaid. The alcoholic part, not the kamikaze pilot part. Saying that, after this epic drinking game we’ll be down for anything. With a multitude of awful lines, a plethora of pregnant pauses and Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation being molested by a tentacle monster, Independence Day is an awesomely terrible movie that deserves your tribute. Doesn’t anybody have any vodka left!?




  • Silver Linings Playbook

    Romantic comedies have become such a chore to watch, such a cold, damp and schmaltzy mire to wade through these days that many of us imagine the prospect of yet another Love, Actually knock-off with complete dread. Enter Silver Linings Playbook, a story about two bi-polar personalities trying to pick up the shattered pieces of their lives. It’s romantic, it’s witty, and it’ll charm the pants right off you.