At the end of 2013’s Ted, Bostonian pothead and all-round, okay kinda guy, John (Mark Wahlberg) married his girlfriend, Lori (Mila Kunis) while his walking, talking teddy bear, Ted (voiced incredibly well by writer/director Seth McFarlane) and Ted’s unlikely though gorgeous trailer-park girlfriend, Tami-Lyn (Jessica Barth) looked on.  It’s two years later, and in the […]

Ask any parent; nothing’s worse than a moody teenager.  Try having a reasonable conversation with one.  It’s like pounding a mallet against a wall of unbreakable glass; no matter how hard you try, no matter how hard you pound, you get nowhere.  In the end you pound you own head trying to work out what […]

“I’ve got real pain in my heart,” narrates aging and lonely locksmith A.J. Manglehorn (Al Pacino).  He’s writing a letter, one of the many hundreds of letters he’s written over the years, to a woman called Clara.  “You could have stopped evil dead in its tracks,” he continues.  He then signs, seals and delivers the […]

Depending on your character type, you know you’re going to cry; the clue is in the cute, rhyming title, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl.  And even though the lead character tells us more than once in a voice-over narration, “She doesn’t die.  She gets better.  Promise,” it’s going to happen.  Of course it’s going to […]

We’ve all heard them and all too often we let them get the better of us.  They’re the voices in our mind; that constant, subconscious chatter that talks us into things – things we don’t always realize we’re even thinking about, yet there they are, dictating policy, sometimes louder and clearer than we might want. […]