Driving Mum (Á Ferð með Mömmu) – Review
Road trip movies are so very rarely about the destination. Rather, they are about the emotional journey the character(s) will undertake whilst going about their route. In the case of Hilmar Oddsson’s...
Tag Archives: Black comedy
Wild Men – Review
The mid-life crisis has become something of a cliché. Both in real life and in films and television. Men, typically, ditch their wives for a younger model and start buying shiny red sports cars, whic...
The Kid Detective – Review
There are plenty of movies about bright child stars struggling to adapt with obscurity or notoriety in childhood. They usually roll out plenty of tropes around alcoholism, dingy apartments, failing c...
Riders of Justice – Review
The revenge movie. It tends to follow a pretty bog-standard formula. Something bad happens to a person and – having grieved or recovered (or just gotten angrier) – they embark on a trail of death and...
Four Lions
Comedy is not only subjective, it’s often a product of time. Humour ages quickly, even something that seems as harmless as Friends has fallen foul of the social media Witchfinder Generals as new audi...
The Death Of Stalin
How do you make widespread poverty, fear, labour camps and shootings seem funny? You create a comedy of terrors, of course. Armando Iannucci’s latest scathing satire succeeds in having you laug...