Director Conor McMahon Starring Karl Rice, Eoin Duffy & Anthony Head Rated MA Score 6/6 A young supermarket worker discovers that his older brother is a vampire and must choose whether to help him or slay him. A vampire movie is always a good fun idea for something to watch and this is the second…
Comedy
Comedy Movie Reviews
Simply Irresistible – Revisit
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Director Mark Tarlov Stars Sarah Michelle Gellar, Sean Patrick Flanery & Patricia Clarkson Rated PG Score 3/6 A department store executive can’t help but fall in love with a beautiful young woman who he believes has magical powers. Alright, I suppose I have to admit that Simply Irresistible is on my list of guilty pleasure…
Irish Film Festival – Redemption of a Rogue
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Director Philip Doherty Starring Aaron Monaghan , Aisling O’Mara & Kieran Roche Rated MA Score 6/6 A bible, black comedy about a prodigal son returning to his hometown to seek salvation for his sins. Before we get too far into things a brief moment of ‘yes there are times when I am that much of…
Hercules in New York
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Director Arthur Allan Seidelman Stars Arnold Stang, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Deborah Loomis Rated PG Score 2/6 After many centuries, Hercules gets bored living in Olympus (the home of the great Greek gods) and decides to move to… New York. But obviously, it is not easy for a man who lived in ancient Greece to get used…
Drop Dead Fred
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Director Ate de Jong Starring Phoebe Cates, Rik Mayall & Marsha Mason Rated PG Score 6/6 A young woman finds her already unstable life rocked by the presence of a rambunctious imaginary friend from childhood. For those of you playing along at home, supposedly when the cinematic powers where casting Drop Dead Fred they offered…
Asterix and the Vikings
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Directors Stefan Fjeldmark & Jesper Møller Starring Paul Giamatti, Brad Garrett & Evan Rachel Wood Rated G Score 4/6 The vikings come to Gaul and kidnap the chief’s nephew. The chief sends Asterix and Obelix up north to get him back but the nephew has fallen in love with the viking chief’s daughter. For those…
Bottle Shock
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Director Randall Miller Starring Alan Rickman, Bill Pullman & Chris Pine Rated M Score 5/6 The story of the early days of California wine making featuring the now infamous, blind Paris wine tasting of 1976 that has come to be known as “Judgment of Paris”. I sat down to watch Bottle Shock, certain that I…
George of the Jungle
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Director Sam Weisman Starring Brendan Fraser, Leslie Mann & Thomas Haden Church Rated PG Score 5/6 A man raised in the jungle by apes falls in love with a wealthy American heiress. Alright, though I don’t want it, I think that George of the Jungle 2 has somehow made it on my list of movies…
L’Arroseur Arrosé – The Oldest Known Comedy
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5/6. Directed by Louis Lumière and starring François Clerc a (Clerc who played the Gardener who got sprayed in the face was actually Lumière’s gardener) and Benoît Duval. For those of you who don’t know Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas Lumière were French manufacturers of photography equipment, best known for their Cinématographe motion picture system and…
Airheads
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Director Michael Lehmann Starring Brendan Fraser, Steve Buscemi & Adam Sandler Rated M Score 4/6 Three band members hoping for a big break head to a radio station to play their demo tape and wind up holding everyone hostage with plastic guns when the head D.J. refuses to play them. Sticking with what might seem…