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John C. Reilly

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Steve Coogan and John Reilly on playing Laurel & Hardy

Laurel and Hardy - one of the most prolific comedy acts in film history - is the subject of a new movie which looks at their tour of British variety halls in the 1950s. The film stars Steve Coogan and John C Reilly. BBC Talking Movies' Tom Brook went to meet them.

Tom Brook, BBC, 3rd January 2019

John C. Reilly and Steve Coogan interview

The actors first met with Stan & Ollie director Jon S. Baird about transforming into the iconic duo in 2014.

Jenna Marotta, Hollywood Reporter, 15th November 2018

Stan & Ollie review: an absolute delight...

An ageing Laurel and Hardy rediscover their mojo and their friendship on a tour of 50s Britain in this affectionate postcard to Hollywood's funniest double-act.

Andrew Collins, Radio Times, 22nd October 2018

Film review: Stan & Ollie is 'a fine bromance'

Steve Coogan and John C Reilly star in a new biopic of Laurel and Hardy that is an irresistible homage to the iconic comedy duo.

Nicholas Barber, BBC, 22nd October 2018

LFF: 'Stan & Ollie' Review: Dir. Jon S. Baird (2018)

Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly pair up to portray the iconic comedy duo of Laurel & Hardy in this bittersweet account of two fading Hollywood stars.

Andrew Gaudion, Hollywood News, 22nd October 2018

#LFF 2018: Stan & Ollie review

Inspired by the book Laurel and Hardy: The British Tours by A.J. Marriot, who also featured as a consultant on the film, Jon S. Baird's Stan & Ollie is part biography and part homage to Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, arguably the greatest stage and screen comedy performers of their time.

Zoe Margolis, Cine-Vue, 22nd October 2018

Stan & Ollie: Coogan's a hoot, Reilly deserves an Oscar

This tragic-comic biopic is mostly set in 1953, the year Hollywood comedy legends Stan Laurel and Ollie Hardy toured the UK and Ireland in hopes of revitalising their careers and mending their friendship (damaged by Ollie's willingness to make a movie, 1939's Zenobia, minus Stan).

Charlotte O'Sullivan, Evening Standard, 22nd October 2018

2018 BFI London Film Festival Review - Stan & Ollie

The love Laurel and Hardy channelled into their routines is clearly reflected - and respected - by the entirety of Stan & Ollie's cast and crew, and it shines through onscreen in this melancholic but heartfelt celebration of the double act.

Tori Brazier, Flickering Myth, 22nd October 2018

Review: Stan & Ollie

Making a comedy about two icons of slapstick is a road so full of pitfalls that even the great men themselves would probably just have taken a different route - one marked "new tarmac" perhaps. And yet the film - like the marriage of a six-foot-one, 280-pound Georgian with a rake of a man from the north of England - just works.

Will Almond, The Upcoming, 22nd October 2018

Film review: Stan & Ollie at the London Film Festival

Hollywood's great comedy duo are reborn in this terrific new biopic.

Kevin Maher, The Times, 22nd October 2018

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