Tag: Jason Bateman

Extract Review: The Taste of Comedy

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EXTRACT (15): On General Release Friday 23rd April

When a film gets a US release date eight months before we do, I have to ask some questions.

Did the studio think it was rubbish? Were the actors not famous enough at the time? Would the humour not translate with British audiences?

I guess we’ll never know why Extract is only being released in the UK now, but I’m grateful we’re getting it at all because it’s not half bad.

Jason Bateman stars as Joel, the sexually frustrated owner of an extract factory. After an accident on the factory floor leaves one of his workers minus one testicle, con woman Cindy (Mila Kunis) steps in to get her hands on some of the settlement money. Joel becomes infatuated with her but can only justify an affair if his wife Suzie (Kristen Wiig) has one first. Do It!

The Invention Of Lying Review: It’s Good, Honestly

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THE INVENTION OF LYING: On General Release From 2nd October 2009

Some call him a smug, one-trick-pony who only plays himself.

Even if this is true, it really doesn’t seem to matter because regardless, Ricky Gervais is going from strength to strength.

Now he’s directing movies and doing it quite well.

In a world where humans haven’t developed the ability to lie, Mark Bellison tells the world’s first and like any good liar (or Pringle), once you pop you just can’t stop.

For all the ‘characterisation’ involved, Mark pretty much is Ricky, a self-described chubby little loser, who works at a film production company as a writer. But since there are no lies there’s no fiction and so the only films around involve a guy sitting in a chair, reading out what happened in a particular century. Do It!