Comedy > 1948 Comedy

If You Like Ham, Eat Wham

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...to one major nightmare for Mr Jim Blandings... Made slightly after the screwball heyday of the late 30's and early 40's, Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House (hereafter called Dream House) is still an extremely funny picture. While most films of this age have dated badly and lost much of their humour, Dream House still manages to get even this stoney faced cynic chortling. Ok so we're not talking about roll on the floor with split sides chortling ...
...years old, the trials and tribulations that face poor Jim are still applicable today and pop up all over the place in Grand Designs. Workmen are still the same, issues like planing permission still crop up, and misunderstandings still end up costing big style. Maybe it's this continuing problem that helps the film to avoid feeling too dated? Who knows and indeed, who cares. The end result is entertaining whatever the reason. Retaining a charm and ...

TheNeil 18.09.2001 · Read full review
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A Dark, Witty Comedy

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...charm. The film is called Unfaithfully Yours. The plot has a symphony conductor named Alfred de Carter(Rex Harrison) who thinks his wife Daphne(Linda Darnell) is having an affair. At one of his concerts, Alfred plans several ways to test her trust with each musiccal piece, even using murder. The film contained classical music with comedy and a somewhat story line. Director Preston Sturges' fine script becomes alive and the actors are lively and ...
...this film. Unfaithfully Yours was unsuccessful in its release but it was well recieved by critics and movie buffs. It certainly ended Sturges' Hollywood career but he would work in film for another ten years. The dialouge in Unfaithfully Yours is snappy and the film relies on plenty of physical comedy. Unfaithfully Yours was remade in 1984 with Dudley Moore. But try to see the 1948 and 1984 versions of Unfaithfully Yours on video or DVD or look ...

kagito 12.06.2003 · Read full review
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Who wants to be a millionaire?

Advantages: Engrossing noir-ish drama with a good story and cast
Disadvantages: None

...embezzle his firm for a million dollars and flee to make a new and adventurous life in Shanghai. We see him in his office phoning an airline to make a reservation under an assumed name, and he packs up his stolen million into a briefcase and sets off. However, it becomes his misfortune to find himself seated with a dodgy pair of passengers on the plane: beautiful young widow Cynthia Strong, who is taking a trip to Hawaii to get away from it all after ...
...in his stealing Nick's stolen million and hightailing it to San Francisco. Needless to say, Nick is not now able to continue on to his destination of Shanghai, but instead he and Cynthia catch the next flight back to San Francisco together to go in pursuit of Alan. This is a gripping, well-acted dark drama with a likeable and sympathetic hero (if you overlook the slight matter of the embezzlement of a million bucks), a lovely and mysterious leading ...

thereddragon 09.08.2006 · Read full review
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The wedding of the year 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding'

Advantages: Fun, nice story
Disadvantages: Predictable

I first watched My Big Fat Greek Wedding a few years ago and although it hasn't become one of my favourite films, I do still watch it from time to time. The film first came out in 2002 so has been around for quite a while now. The story of the film is based around a character called Toula Portokalos (Christina Eleusiniotis). Toula is from a greek family, who take the traditions of their culture very seriously. Her family own a resteraunt called 'Dancing ...
...her thirties and yet has never really done anything with her life. She is plain and no-one really notices her as she goes around her everyday life. One day Toula decides to do something about her life and signs up to a college course. It isn't easy for her to persuade her Father Gus (Michael Constantine), but her Mother Maria (Lainie Kazan) manages to help her. Once she has started the course she starts to feel more confident in herself and decides ...

wendz86 28.12.2009 · Read full review
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Offender of the Universe

Advantages: sick slick rapid succession of one line jokes
Disadvantages: turns the air blue, plenty of bad language, not for the easily offended

Jimmy Carr is the Marmite of Comedy, you either love him or hate him, there’s not really much in between. On the UK comedy scene for the past 10 years, he has become more and more known over the past few years, in particular as host of comedy quiz ‘8 out of 10 cats’ and voice of many a Channel 4 ‘Top 100 shows’. Carr himself was voted number 12 in the ‘Top 100 Comedians’. Personally I love Jimmy Carr. Then again, I love a lot of the modern comedians, ...
...over the past decade. Jimmy Carr Telling Jokes is his latest DVD release. There are four previous releases of his stage show, all recorded at the Bloomsbury Theatre in London over time from 2005 until this year. One of Jimmy Carr’s previous DVDs opens with a warning: “This show is not for the easily offended, this is not even for those difficult to offend, this show is for people without moral compass.” Not only is this true for the DVD is was on, ...

Tempus_Fugit 27.12.2009 · Read full review
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