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Tonight saw the fall of the 31st Critics’ Circle Film Awards, which was held for the first time at London’s BFI Southbank. Our full report will be online later today with all the red carpet gossip and winner’s reactions. Want to see Danny Boyle advertising Moët, hear about Aaron Sorkin’s upcoming HBO series, or find [...]
As with the other DVDs of Morris’s work, and I’m thinking specifically of The Day Today and the sublime Brass Eye, there is a wonderful menu when you load up the disc – totally surreal, and completely correct for the film. Immediately you know you’re in good hands. I reviewed this film when it was [...]
When Chris Morris announced he was making a comedy film about terrorism, specifically suicide bombers, it was inevitable that there would be a backlash. The BBC are running a story today which details the reaction to Four Lions, Morris’s debut feature film which is out in cinemas today, from some of the people who lost [...]
With the hugely influential media satires of Brass Eye and The Day Today behind him Chris Morris has fixed his eye on a subject which doesn’t so much court controversy but stick its tongue down its throat – a comedy about suicide bombers. And it takes someone with the comic genius and moral intelligence of [...]
It’s Friday, and as if that wasn’t cause enough for celebration there’s a shiny new Mouth Off podcast for you to enjoy as you dive facefirst into the weekend. This week talking celluloid smoke and mirrors with me are HeyUGuys writer Craig Skinner and Brendon Connelly from /Film, and the films we are lining up [...]
To celebrate the release of Four Lions, in cinemas 7th May, we have two posters signed by the legendary Chris Morris give away! For more information about the film visit http://www.four-lions.co.uk/ Chris Morris’ Four Lions is a funny, thrilling comedy that illuminates modern jihadism through the prism of farce. It understands jihadists as human beings. [...]
A favourite at Sundance and long awaited by fans of Chris Morris’s work on The Day Today and Brass Eye, the jihadi comedy Four Lions has a great new poster. Empire had this one first and it shows a total understanding of the pitch black humour expected to fuel the film. The film tells of [...]
It takes someone with the sickest twist of a comedic imagination to write a comedy film about a group of incompetent jihadists; it takes someone with the talent of Chris Morris to make it work and with the first clip to emerge from his film Four Lions, it seems he has succeeded. We reported a [...]
Fans of Chris Morris’s TV works will know of his surreal and vicious take on the modern world, popping the moral acne of the world leaving a moonscape of scars in a brilliant and original way. His work with In The Loop’s Armando Iannucci on the BBC’s The Day Today and Channel 4′s Brass Eye [...]
