Few things signal the Christmas period than the appearance of Clark W Griswold and his family prepping for their festive vacation. Yes, for the next Christmas film on the Film Geeky list, it is 1989’s National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. The third in the Vacation series sees Chevy Chase returning to the role of Griswold patriarch with the return of Beverly D’Angelo
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The build up to Christmas now finds us at Bill Murray’s 1988 modern day retelling of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Directed by Richard Donner (Lethal Weapon / The Goonies / Superman), the film represented Murray’s first return to a comedy lead role since the 1984 Ghostbusters (in fact he’d only really had one full lead role in that time
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If there’s something strange… The recent trend of remake, reboot, revamped films continues with the 2016 version of Ghostbusters. Starring the all female team of Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones, the film is directed by Paul Feig who co-wrote the script with Katie Dippold. Much like the original, the film follows a group of scientists of
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Catching up on this 2015 comedy, we’re reviewing Get Hard today. Written and directed by Etan Cohen in his directorial debut, having previously written Tropic Thunder and Men In Black 3. The story follows investment banking millionaire James King, busy living the dream with his huge home, army of servants and young fiancee. That is, until he is arrested for
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The team of Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg return from their 2010 comedy hit The Other Guys, with the new offering from director Sean Anders (We’re The Millers, Horrible Bosses 2, That’s My Boy), Daddy’s Home. Ferrell plays Brad Whitaker, an executive on the Panda smooth Jazz radio station, and married stepfather to his wife’s two children Megan and Dylan.
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The final day of the Alphabet Challenge and of course for ‘Z’ we turn to the 2001 comedy ‘Zoolander’ both starring and directed by Ben Stiller (and in fairness part written by him as well), and the subject of a sequel currently in cinemas. Derek Zoolander may not be much of a thinker but is a superstar male model and
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Day ‘W’ of the Alphabet challenge and to Wayne’s World we go. This 1992 comedy was originally based on a recurring sketch from Saturday Night Live, featuring Mike Myers (Austin Powers) as Wayne Campbell, and Dana Carvey (Clean Slate, Trapped in Paradise) as Garth Algar. Between the two, they host a regular TV show on a public network called ‘Wayne’s
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Alphabet Challenge – Day ‘U’. Today sees us shift back to 1989 and the world of writer / director John Hughes for the family comedy ‘Uncle Buck’. In this film the late, great John Candy plays Buck Russell brother to Bob and uncle to Bob’s three children. Upon the news that Bob’s wife Cindy’s father has had a heart attack,
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The sisters in question here are Maura and Kate Ellis, raised in Orlando and now attempting to live adult lives. Maura (Amy Poehler) is a divorcee, do-gooder nurse who spends time helping the homeless, rescuing animals and penning motivational, quotes. Her older sister, Kate (Tina Fey) is the hot headed, reckless older sister who is a beautician with a daughter in
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“You’re going to be the Eleventh Commandment: ‘Thou shalt not get away with it.” There was a time when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. There was another time, when a different type of lethal animal roamed this planet leaving nothing standing in its wake. These were the 80’s action heroes. Not like the CGI riddled super heroes that we have today, these
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