BCG Daily Wednesday 12th February 2025

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy review

Merry widow charms the pants off young hunk.

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy review

A tearjerker that also makes you laugh out loud.

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy review

A welcome return as Hugh Grant proves a scene-stealer.

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy review

It's witty, sophisticated, chaotic and charming all in one, however, what stands out most of all is how surprisingly sad and tender the movie is.

Whatever happened to the great British sex comedy?

Unicorn is a new West End play about a throuple, starring Stephen Mangan and Nicola Walker - can theatre audiences rediscover their taste for sauce on stage?

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy review

Renee Zellweger and Hugh Grant make a welcome return in this warm-hearted, best of British romcom.

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy review

Bridget Jones as a character is beautiful because her life is a reminder that life goes on, and yes, there's a tragedy to that, but there's a great, searing beauty to it as well.

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy review

Giant laughs for Hugh Grant but weepie sequel is strangely dazed.

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy review

A welcome reunion that's strictly for the fans.

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy review

The latest episode is connected to the greater sadnesses of life, not to mention properly funny.

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy review

A bloated, weeping sogfest.

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy review

Renée Zellweger shines in poignant moments of closing chapter flush with fan-service.

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy review

The best Bridget Jones sequel yet - and Renée Zellweger remains sensational.

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy review

Gimmicky fanfiction For the middle-aged and the middle class.

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy review

It's pleasant and touching, but even Bridget's fling with a younger dude doesn't generate much madness.

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy review

Mad About The Boy is perfect - I couldn't have loved it more.

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy review

The fourth film in the iconic Renée Zellweger-starring franchise comes closest to capturing the series' original magic, heartbreak and humor intact. It would have been so nice to see that in theaters with fellow Bridget freaks..

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy review

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy is missing something essential. Despite all the emotional moments and conversations about grief, I felt estranged from the heart of the story.

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy review

Big laughs and even bigger emotions in her best film yet.

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy review

Renée Zellweger brings laughter and tears in an emotional sequel with a returning Hugh Grant.

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy review

The Top Gun: Maverick of rom-coms.

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy review

Surprisingly elegant and profoundly moving film will bruise your heart in ways you didn't think possible.

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy review

Our national treasure grows up.

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy review

I'm a 30-something singleton and Bridget Jones's poignant comeback is as welcome as ever.

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy review

This edition relies more heavily on sentimentality than previous films, and the Love Actually touch, though laid on rather thick in the second half will give the fans what they want: laughter and tears, plus a rooting interest in Bridget's ultimate happiness.

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy review

A widowed Bridget Jones (Renée Zellweger) opens herself up to love again while juggling the pressures of parenting and work.

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy review

Renée Zellweger sparkles in a new era of feminism.

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy review

This fourth instalment in the series - which follows Bridget after the death of her husband - is far more moving.

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy review

An older, (slightly) wiser Bridge is back in the best romcom in absolutely ages.

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy review

A riot of hilarious silliness... even if toyboy Leo Woodall is just shallow eye candy.

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy review

May just be the best one to date.

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy review

They've saved the best till last.

Steve Coogan project leads Climate Spring movie development slate

A Steve Coogan project about a London PR guru who greenwashes the reputations of the world's worst polluters leads Climate Spring's movie development slate. Climate Spring is seeking financing for The Good Life along with four other projects.

Amandaland episode two review

You can tell a comedy series has taken off when people who don't usually discuss sitcoms are discussing it.

Molly-Mae's day halted as Michelle Keegan's Brassic films outside £3.5m mansion

Molly-Mae's day was ground to a halt due to TV series Brassic.

A source exclusively told The Sun: "They blocked off her street and were filming two houses down from her."

Has Peter Kay thrown out his cuddly image along with his 'garlic bread' hecklers?

The chummy everyman seemed to let his facade slip as he brutally ejected two hecklers from a recent gig - a misstep that showed he's out of touch with the current cut-and-thrust of stand-up.

Lou Sanders: I'm trying to age joyfully. It's not easy

The comedian on her new show, her favourite Dancing On Ice outfits and the downside of swimming in freezing cold lochs.

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy is a riot of hilarious silliness

There's little about Mad About The Boy which is original, but good old-fashioned bawdy humour and pratfalls are rare in cinema these days.

It's a riot of silliness that sticks two fingers up at anyone worrying about men being "objectified".

Jacob Hawley: I'm a comedian - here's where Peter Kay went wrong in "garlic bread" row

As comedians, it's our job to make you laugh, so that's a pretty hard thing to tell someone! And whether he likes it or not, Garlic Bread is Peter Kay's 'thing', his hit, his equivalent of Paul McCartney playing 'Hey Jude' and yet, as he put it in his statement, being used to disrupt this particular show.

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy review

The latest in the Bridget Jones franchise underuses the talented cast, preferring lame gags over character development.

Peter Kay fans slammed comic over 'rude' jokes and 'disappointing' gigs MONTHS ago

Peter Kay fans voiced their concern over rude jokes on his tour months before he ejected hecklers and called one a Lisa Riley lookalike.

The Phoenix Nights legend, 51, faced criticism from some audience members who felt his comedy had changed, with one stating "the entire show was f*****g terrible".

Ofcom receives 1,200 complaints over Josh Howie's GB News show

During an episode of Headliners which aired on 22 January, while discussing a sermon given by a US bishop, presenter and comedian Josh Howie appeared to suggest the LGBT community included paedophiles.

Am I Being Unreasonable? Episode 2 review

OK, I take it all back. After last week's opening episode of the second series which barely made any narrative sense to me this distinctive series is very much back on track in the second episode, which is compelling and hilarious in equal measures for a number of reasons.

Live review: Komedia New Comedy Award, Komedia, Brighton

This year's Komedia New Comedy Award final got off to a great start. I was one of the judges and when I arrived our table was groaning with chicken pieces, halloumi fries, chips. Definitely how to win over a journalist's heart - if you don't stop it beating first. After this though things did go slightly downhill until victory was snatched from the jaws of defeat by some of the stronger, later acts.

Komedia New Comedy Awards 2025 review

The number of talented new acts banging on the door of the comedy circuit never ceases to be impressive. And so it was with the Komedia New Comedy Award last night, with nine promising newcomers all trying to make an impression, and largely succeeding.

Funboys review

This beautifully bonkers comedy is a worthy successor to This Country.

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy review

Mad smiling and dodgy pronunciation distracts from a decent comedy turn by Renée Zellweger in this fourth (and final?) instalment about the former desperate singleton turned widowed single mother.

Daisy May Cooper secretly engaged to boyfriend Anthony

Daisy May Cooper is secretly engaged to her boyfriend after a whirlwind romance and baby.

The Sun can reveal the writer and actress is getting hitched to her partner Anthony Huggins.

How to make a career-changing comedy podcast

The brains behind three of Britain's most exciting comedy podcasts tell us how they made a hit.

Netflix viewers rush to binge 'masterpiece' British comedy series Sick Note

A series praised by fans for its 'dark British humour' has quickly become one of the most watched shows since being released on Netflix this week. Originally airing in 2017, Sick Note starred Rupert Grint as insurance agent Daniel Glass, a compulsive liar facing a failing relationship and dead-end job when things get even worse, and he's diagnosed with terminal oesophageal cancer.

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy review

Bridget is back - and she's even better in her mature years.