“I know too much about life to have any optimism,†is a typically bleak quip from struggling stand-up Louis CK, describing new relationships.    Â
‘The Big Wedding’: Zackham delivers a wonderful and funny story Review by John Delia, Jr. The big wedding day approaches and Alejandro Griffin (Ben Barnes)
The business jargon is preposterous and the American CEOs laughable in Alain Corneau’s Paris-set corporate thriller. Â Â Â Â
Aaron Eckhart tries his best with this weak Taken/Bourne-like thriller, but the engaging action man and his pronounced chin sag a little as the chase sequences mount up and the villains become ever more irrelevant. Â Â Â Â
The Coen brothers’ first masterpiece, their neo-noir 1983 debut (above), relies on its lead characters explaining diddly-squat to each other.
Why isn’t everyone yelling from the rooftops about this excellent Channel 4 sitcom? It starts sedately – and The Mimic’s pacing remains gentle throughout – but persist and you’ll reap rich comic rewards.    Â
Lee Child’s popular hero, a former-soldier-turned-drifter, is famously 6’5“. So who plays him
joss Whedon’s perky series about wisecracking, renegade space cowboys, operating 500 years in the future, might have infamously been axed in 2002, but since then Firefly (above) has become the definitive cult success, spawning a terrific film, Serenity, and topping numerous lists for best sci-fi series.