Exploring thorny issues through a dialled-up plot, Jonatan Etzler’s English-language debut is an unsettling black comedy that intrigues and entertains but sometimes struggles to strike the right balance between comedy and horror, leaving the two elements fighting for space. The film centres on Maria (Saoirse Ronan), a primary school teacher, struggling to be the teacher…
Will Gluck’s contributions in the comedy/rom-com sphere have run the gamut. From the enduring modern classic, Easy A, to the likeable Friends with Benefits to the painful (yet shockingly successful) Anyone But You. Returning to the genre with a more high-concept premise, he unfortunately cannot reconcile the dystopian nightmare of the film’s backdrop with the attempted fizzy genre tone,…
Hollywood has long traded in nostalgia and known quantities, rolling out sequels and spin-offs for as long as they are profitable, with belated sequels – often released decades after their predecessors – being particularly fashionable for the past decade or so. Regardless of the sequels’ quality or the real need for them to be made…
It is a truth universally acknowledged that we, as a society, have suffered from a dearth of good romantic comedies – possibly symptomatic of our cynical age but also a genre that’s, potentially, a salve for it. We were rom-com-less for years before a somewhat renaissance unfortunately consisting mainly of streaming slop: the genre (and…
Every now and then a film so original comes along that you can’t quite believe it got made in this day and age and it is a thrill to even see it made it to your local multiplex. Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is one of those films: a wild, zany adventure that is…
