British Comedy Guide

Peter Bradshaw

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Brits plus sex equals a letdown

Tessa Peake-Jones's adventures in a commune based on the sexual behaviour of apes quickly turns into something sitcommy

Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 4th December 2014

Nativity 3 review - unfunny, infantile and crass

The third in the series, minus all of the charm, is like a British Christmas ad directed by Satan.

Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 14th November 2014

What We Did on Our Holiday review

David Tennant and Rosamund Pike play the put-upon parents of three kids in this feature-format development of Outnumbered.

Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 26th September 2014

Monty Python Live (Mostly) review

This live show won't make any converts. But it sends the faithful away happy.

Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 2nd July 2014

Frank review - engrossing, tender breakdown

Michael Fassbender's chops remain hidden during most of this beguiling tragicomic fable inspired by Jon Ronson's memoir about indie enigma Frank Sidebottom.

Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 8th May 2014

The Love Punch review

The cast might well have done it just for the sake of a holiday on the French riviera, but at least this cheerfully daft adventure canters along amiably.

Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 17th April 2014

Cuban Fury - review

Nimble-footed stars such as Nick Frost, Chris O'Dowd and Olivia Colman step lively in a comedy that doesn't quite fill the floor.

Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 14th February 2014

The World's End - review

Edgar Wright's new movie lands a double-whammy of funny and clever: a good-natured sci-fi comedy of male mid-life discontent that disproves the famous LP Hartley quotation. It is the present that is the foreign country, or rather the alien planet, and as we get older we feel increasingly exiled from that homeland of the past where everything felt more vivid and real.

Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 18th July 2013

Run for Your Wife - review

The trouser-dropping 80s stage farce finally hits the big screen with Danny Dyer, to kill off any remaining British self-respect.

Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 14th February 2013

Grabbers - review

Shaun Of The Dead lurks at the back of this likable and technically impressive Ireland-set comedy-horror.

Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 27th December 2012

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