Comedy > BAFTA Comedy > 5 GBP to 10 GBP

Advantages: It gives you an insight to what it would be like to be watched 24/7
Disadvantages: Jim carrey is not for everyone.

...addiction to "reality" television and the question arises, where would you draw the line? The Truman Show is a compelling film that will leave you debating its message, right until the last minute. Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey) is adopted, by a television studio for the sole purpose of broadcasting his entire life, to the whole world, without his knowledge. Christof (Ed Harris) is the director of the show. He sets Truman up for emotional setbacks ...
...high. The film raises many questions and makes the audience wonder: How would you feel if your whole life was fiction and you were manipulated by some invisible director? Imagine it! Reunited for the first time in years! When Truman is reunited with his dad it is a powerful, moving scene that is cleverly constructed to highlight the way Christof manipulates Truman. It also interprets how the audience construes this manipulation. This reunited scene ... Read review

Advantages: bonus disc features loads of interesting extras
Disadvantages: the sexual violence is a little too crude

Pulp Fiction (winner of the Palm d' Or at the Cannes Film Festival) features three intertwined storylines. The film jumps back and forth between: Bruce Willis as a boxer who has made a deal with the mob to lose a match, John Travolta taking out his boss' wife and getting into a heap of trouble, and Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson's misshaps over an 'accidental' murder. One of the best moments of the films features a moment between Travolta and Uma ...
...mistakenly shoots up heroine and Travolta needs to drive a huge needle through her chest in order to save her. This is, of course, Tarantino's most well known film and deserves all the award winning acclaim it has been given. This 2 disc special collector's edition features a bonus disc full of great extras. It goes behind the scenes of the film and offers various articles and reviews and also has a production design featurette. Overall, if you liked ... Read review

Advantages: A very interesting multi layered film.
Disadvantages: None.

...SHOW-- The Truman Show was released in 1998. Directed by Peter Weir and written by Andrew Niccol. Starring Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, and Natasha McElhone. - BBFC Rating: PG - Genre: Fantasy/Comedy/Drama. - Running Time: 103 Minutes. - Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey) is a man who has grown up in, and is now living his life unawares, within a reality TV programme. Hand chosen from five unwanted babies, he is legally adopted by the television company. ...
...for the unveiling of the groundbreaking reality show. Killing his father off within the programme by a 'staged' boating accident ensures Truman's fear of water and therefore leaving him no option for escape should he discover the truth behind his scripted life, as the only way out of the town is by crossing the sea. The whole history of the programme which has charted Truman's birth, childhood and progression to manhood is shown globally 24/07. Functioning ... Read review

Advantages: Unique, fab storyline, wonderful cinematography!
Disadvantages: It didn't run for longer.

...plot surrounds the life of Amelie from her early childhood to her working life in a Parisian Caf'e. Not your normal upbringing, her father a doctor and mother a teacher have something of the obsessive compulsive about them. Her father wrongly diagnoses Amelie with a heart defect and as a result she doesn't attend school and as a result spends her childhood secluded from others and lacking in the social skills only learned through interaction with ...
...sense of harmony takes over Amelie and she makes it her quest to enhance the life of others, which she does in funny , peculiar and touching ways. What of Amelie? Will she ever find true love, or is she destined to always think of others and keep herself in her lonely Amelie world.? Or is love just waiting for her in the guise of Nino, the rather odd young man who Amelie happens upon in the Paris subway, two halves of one whole, joined toghether ... Read review

Advantages: funny, easy to understand
Disadvantages: may offend some people

Ali G; Britain's stupidest character created by one of Britain smartest comedians. Ali G is one of the many characters played by Sasha Baron Cohen. This particular incarnation is my personal favourite. Ali G is, basically, an idiot. He comes out with a of stupid comments and numerous comments that are sexist and homophobic. Ali G's rise to fame came on the 11 o'clock show many years ago. All he did there was to give interviews in the way that only ...
...After all this came Ali G; Indahouse. This was a film where Ali becomes a politician and tries to change things for the better. The film starts in a comical fashion. Two women are being harassed by some men and he comes to their rescue. These few men suddenly turn into loads of men and start shooting at him. Obviously he dodges all the bullets in his own stupid way and even manages to save a child in the process. This one scene basically warms you ... Read review