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DVD review | Cedar Rapids – Ed Helms’ small fry insurance man, a fish out of water in the big city

Posted on 19 September 2011 by Jason Best

Best known for his supporting roles as nerdy dentist Stu in The Hangover and pompous salesman Andy in the US version of The Office, Ed Helms takes the lead as an incredibly naïve Midwesterner in Cedar Rapids, a smutty comedy … Continue reading →

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Cedar Rapids – Ed Helms’ small-town naif loses his innocence in the big(gish) city

Posted on 28 April 2011 by Jason Best

Best known for his supporting roles as pussy-whipped dentist Stu in The Hangover and pompous salesman Andy in the US version of The Office, American comedian Ed Helms takes the lead as an incredibly naïve Midwesterner in Cedar Rapids, a … Continue reading →

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At the Cinema | The Road – A glimmer of hope amid the post-apocalyptic gloom

Posted on 8 January 2010 by Jason Best

The big freeze, global warming, economic meltdown, terror plots: with so many calamities currently besetting us, it’s no wonder that the cinema is cashing in on the prevailing mood that apocalypse is just around the corner. In the last few … Continue reading →

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Out on DVD | RocknRolla

Posted on 2 February 2009 by Jason Best

After the debacle of his would-be mystical crime thriller Revolver (not to mention the even more disastrous Swept Away), Guy Ritchie ditches the Kabbalah sermons and returns to something closer to what fans of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels … Continue reading →

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