Russell Peters - Show Me The Funny/Comedy Now (DVD)

Paradise Now on DVD

Advantages: Superb acting; low key realism; Lack of prejudice
Disadvantages: None (unless you hate reading subtitles)

Every now and then a movie will sneak up and catch you by surprise. So it was for me with Paradise Now, a film I knew nothing about, other than a website blurb about two potential suicide bombers. Co-written and directed by Hany Abu-Assad this is a story set within the West bank in Palestine, with two friends, Said and Khaled, being offered their chance of martyrdom (hence 'Paradise Now') by carrying out a suicide mission in Tel Aviv. Both the men react to the invitation with a mixture of relief, confusion and elation, though it is Khaled who seems the happiest to grab the chance. Said is more thoughtful, altogether darker, about the whole affair. But they are both ready, and then readied after a blackly comic filming of their martyr speeches, as they have their hair shaved short, and bears shaved off, to make them look more ...

blackpuddinonnabike 14.04.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Paradise Now (DVD)

With friends like Peter's . . .

Advantages: Easy watching, some good acting and great vocal performances
Disadvantages: Acting from some of the cast is a bit over-the-top

years on, with his father dead, Peter is now Lord Morton and the only firm decision he's made about the house he can't really afford to live in is that he's having a party with his university friends. So have they grown-up or are they still immature twenty-two year olds at heart? I once read some Internet Movie Database trivia that claimed that Rita Rudner (who plays Andrew's wife Carol, a seemingly minor TV star looking for a film break that she's never likely to get) and her husband Martin Bergman wrote the script for Peter's Friends in about five days, and I must admit there are moments when I watch this film that make me think, "Didn't they want to write a better final draft?". Peter's Friends is very much character-driven - nothing exactly eventful happens, rather it seems to provide the six friends with a bit of time out of their busy ...

KateHurst 12.08.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Peter's Friends (DVD)

Peter Kay Comedy DVD

Advantages: It makes you laugh a lot
Disadvantages: none

I first saw Peter Kay on Jonathan Ross. One bit that amused me was that he was in the same green room as a pretentious pop-star who had brought ?imaginary? Japanese people with her who just posed. Peter Kay pulled some great ?they?re nuts!? faces and his rapid wit contrasted delightfully with their posturing silence. This DVD was an opportunity to see the effect he had on a live audience. Despite the introduction and ending in which he did a rather unnecessary, I thought, sketch involving a taxi-driver, the actual performance itself was electrifying. Kay?s humour is based on observation of working class family behaviour with much of his material being derived from the foibles of his own mother and grandmother who ? in this DVD ? are in the audience, and whose faces reveal the accuracy of his send up. The camera flicks onto his ...

FlameDruid 09.01.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Peter Kay - Live At The Bolton Albert Halls (DVD)