Category: Films

Crave! episode 70: Johnny English, A Simple Favour, Ladies In Black, Kim Benzie

In the seventieth — seventieth! — episode of Crave! Steve struggles to convince Simon of the merits of A Simple Favour, the new Blake Lively—Anna Kendrick two-hander; while Simon rates it, he isn’t as taken in with the film’s charms…

JOHNNY ENGLISH STRIKES AGAIN – more miss than hit, thanks to Peter Sellers

Essentially, this is a collection of gags. Most of them, as you’d expect from Rowan Atkinson, are of the physical variety. Some are without doubt laugh out loud funny, but others feel rather tired and predictable. Overall, this is a…

Crave! episode 69: BlacKkKlansman, The Happytime Murders, Steven Wilson, Pink

Two films of very different calibres have been occupying Simon and Steve’s attention this week. BlacKKKlansman, the Spike Lee joint about a black detective who infiltrates the Ku Klux Klan, made a very positive impression; The Happytime Murders simply managed…

The Happytime Murders: not a happy time at the cinema

What’s most frustrating, perhaps, about The Happytime Murders is that there is the germ, the nubbin, of a potentially really enjoyable film hiding somewhere inside it. That really enjoyable film, however, has been crushed by the weight of the monumental…