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Saturday, February 14th, 2009
As we approach ten years since the first Futurama episode hit our TV screens it’s fitting that the fourth, and apparently final, feature-length episode comes out on DVD. A lot has happened in animated comedy features in a decade, some of which could be traced to Futurama, but does this franchise still hold up?
Into the Wild Green Yonder is not a good start for a Futurama newbie as we are not given the background to how pizza delivery boy Philip J. Fry made it from being cryogenically frozen as 2000 began, and then brought back to life on New Year’s Eve 2999. That sort of info would be useful to any stranger to the Futurama world.
In this film mankind stands on the brink of a wondrous new Green Age, but ancient dark forces, “three times older than time itself”, are determined to wreak destruction. Which sounds more dramatic until you mention the universe’s largest mini-golf course, Bender’s trysts with a fembot married to the mob, and Leela turning eco-terrorist hunted by Zapp Brannigan.
All in all it’s a good episode of Futurama that just about stands up to being spread into a feature.
The fourth and final Feature-length Futurama hits the DVD and Blue-ray shelves packed with bonus features such as an audio commentary by creator Matt Groening, a making-of mockumentary, and “Zapp brannigan’s Guide to Making Love at a Woman”.
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Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
John Hancock (Will Smith) is an unhappy and reluctant superhero who is living in his own world. Despite being a superhero Hancock is depressed and drinking heavily.
He has saved many lives in Los Angeles over the years, but in doing so has damaged buildings, trains, roads, cars, and anything else that gets in his way of getting the job done. The last time he captured several criminals, it cost the city $9 million to fix the damages. The public has had enough of Hancock, and they want him to stop or go to another city.
This is your chance to win a copy of the hit movie “Hancock” on DVD – just in time for Christmas! All you have to do is visit the DVD website ( www.hancock-dvd.co.uk ), where you have the chance to become a superhero like Hancock and make your own comic book! Then use our Contact Us form and answer the following question:
Who plays Mary Embrey in Hancock?
We have two copies to give away – and the closing date for entries is: 9pm Monday 8th December.
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Friday, November 14th, 2008
Ricky Gervais is Bertram Pincus, a dentist who is not much of a people-person, in this romantic comedy Ghost Town.
Pincus dies briefly in hospital during a standard procedure but, is brought back to life after just a few minutes. This experience leaves him with the ability to see and communicate with ghosts, much to his dismay, and they all want some sort of favour from him.
Recently deceased Frank Herlihy (Greg Kinnear) is particularly hard to shake off as he pesters Pincus around the clock, until he agrees to help split up Frank’s widow from her new man.
Bertram Pincus finds his life changing as he falls in love and realises that he needs to change his attitude towards others if he doesn’t want to spend the rest of his life alone.
I’m not much of a Ricky Gervais fan but, he is great in this film. He is very funny as the anti-social dentist and Ghost Town is hardly the conventional rom-com, which makes it all the more entertaining. It definitely stands out against many of the run-of-the-mill rom-coms that hit the big screen.
The plot is fun and engaging and there is plenty of humour to keep the audience amused throughout. I would definitely recommend this film to all comedy fans.
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
Tropic Thunder is a film about a film starring a very unusual cast, so it has to be a Ben Stiller creation.
Stiller plays Tugg Speedman, a pampered actor set to star in the most expensive war movie ever made alongside Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey Jr) a highly successful, award winning actor who just might steal Tugg’s limelight.
Their co-stars come in the form of Jeff Portnoy (Jack Black) comedy star of ‘The Fatties’ (which is not dissimilar to ‘The Klumps’ with Eddie Murphy), hip-hop artist come entrepreneur come actor, Alpa Chino (Brandon T Jackson) and newbie actor Kevin Sandusky (Jay Baruchel).
The group are thrown into a real-life scenario as they begin to shoot their film, unawares that what they’re experiencing is real warfare. They have to learn to get along and to get over their star status if they are going to survive.
Tropic Thunder is an interesting and often funny watch with plenty of homage to Hollywood.
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