Richard Ayoade’s second film, The Double, gets a trailer, and it looks as far from his debut Submarine as one could possibly get. Based on a novella by literary grandmaster Dostoevsky, The Double stars Jesse Eisenberg as an awkward young man who works a menial office job. As he becomes more and more invisible to […]
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Television Revision: The Mighty Boosh – Season 2
October 30, 2012 
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Television Revision: The Mighty Boosh – Season 2. Starring Noel Fielding, Julian Barratt, and Michael Fielding. Rated M. By Andrew Williams. Television Revision is a weekly feature in which our tuned in TV critic trawls through the best the box has to offer, giving you a primer on some of history’s finest shows (and warning […]
Continue readingProtect yourself – The Watch review
September 13, 2012 1 Comment
The Watch – Starring Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, and Jonah Hill. Directed by Akiva Schaffer. Rated MA. By Simon Miraudo. The Watch will be an odd experience for anyone not acquainted with director Akiva Schaffer’s previous effort Hot Rod. To the casual observer, this all-star sci-fi comedy with a fixation on male appendages of all […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: The Watch
May 7, 2012 0 Comments
The first feature trailer for Akiva Schaffer‘s alien-invasion comedy The Watch has landed online. The pic stars Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill and Richard Ayoade as wannabe vigilantes who patrol their local streets, and unwittingly happen upon an intergalactic plot for world domination. The picture was originally titled Neighbourhood Watch, but 20th Century Fox changed the title to distance it from the George […]
Continue readingEisenberg and Wasikowska join Ayoade’s Submarine follow-up
February 2, 2012 1 Comment
Jesse Eisenberg and Mia Wasikowska have joined the cast of director Richard Ayoade‘s upcoming film The Double, THR reports. A loose adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s darkly comic novella of the same name, Eisenberg will play a man “driven to near breakdown by the appearance of his doppelganger”. Though Ayoade is best known for playing Moss […]
Continue readingThe life aquatic – Submarine review
January 12, 2012 0 Comments
Submarine – Starring Craig Roberts, Noah Taylor and Sally Hawkins. Directed by Richard Ayoade. Rated M. Originally published July 24, 2011. By Simon Miraudo. Give me an affectation-heavy coming-of-age comedy, and make it extra affectatious! Richard Ayoade (best known as Moss from The IT Crowd) makes his feature film directorial debut with Submarine, an adaptation of Joe Dunthorne’s novel of the same name. It stars Craig Roberts as Oliver […]
Continue readingFirst look at Stiller, Vaughn, Hill and Ayoade in Neighbourhood Watch
December 6, 2011 0 Comments
The first official image from the upcoming sci-fi comedy Neighbourhood Watch has landed online. The film centres on a group of dads – played by Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill and Richard Ayoade – who accidentally happen upon an alien plot to destroy the world. Jared Stern’s original screenplay was rewritten by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. Hot Rod‘s Akiva […]
Continue readingIT Crowd’s Richard Ayoade signs up for Neighbourhood Watch
September 15, 2011 1 Comment
Richard Ayoade – best known as Moss from The IT Crowd, and director of the sublime coming-of-age flick Submarine – has been cast opposite Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn and Jonah Hill in the new comedy Neighbourhood Watch. The film centres on a group of dads who accidentally happen upon an alien plot to destroy the world. Jared Stern’s original screenplay was recently […]
Continue readingThe life aquatic – Submarine review
September 5, 2011 0 Comments
Submarine – Starring Craig Roberts, Noah Taylor and Sally Hawkins. Directed by Richard Ayoade. Rated M. Originally published July 24, 2011. By Simon Miraudo. This review was first run during the Melbourne International Film Festival. Submarine opens nationally on September 8, 2011. Give me an affectation-heavy coming-of-age comedy, and make it extra affectatious! Richard Ayoade (best known as […]
Continue readingMelbourne International Film Festival – Submarine review
July 28, 2011 0 Comments
Submarine – Starring Craig Roberts, Yasmin Paige and Sally Hawkins. Directed by Richard Ayoade. Rated M. By Jess Lomas. Submarine plays the Melbourne International Film Festival on Thursday 28 July. The feature directorial debut for actor Richard Ayoade is an impressive though familiar exploration into the coming of age for one awkward teenager. Based on […]
Continue readingMelbourne International Film Festival – Day Two
July 24, 2011 4 Comments
Melbourne International Film Festival – Day Two. By Simon Miraudo. Beasts, and guards, and Michael Shannons, oh my! My second day of movie-watching at the 2011 Melbourne International Film Festival was a packed one; so much so, I don’t even have time to write a proper introduction to this diary entry. Instead, I’m just going […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Submarine
February 9, 2011 0 Comments
The first trailer for the very buzzy British indie flick Submarine has debuted online. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September of 2010 to much acclaim, and has been circling the festival circuit (including a stop at Sundance) ahead of its March release. Submarine is written and directed by Richard Ayoade, […]
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