Tina Fey

Film Review: Mean Girls; 2024 musical update honours the original as much as it forges its own fetch personality

Like many a millennial, the original Mean Girls from 2004 holds a special place in the depths of my queer, quote-filled heart.  It’s why there was sense of trepidation in coming into the new iteration of Tina Fey and Mark Waters’ high-school comedy.  Now, I was actually fully aware that this particular version was a…

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Win a double in-season pass to the new comedy MEAN GIRLS

Plastic is forever! To celebrate the release of MEAN GIRLS, with thanks to Paramount Pictures and Superdream, we are giving away 5 double in-season passes (Admit 2) to see the fetch new comedy from Tina Fey, based on the MEAN GIRLS stage musical, and starring Angourie Rice, Auli’i Cravalho, Reneé Rapp, Jaquel Spivey, Avantika, Bebe…

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Film Review: A Haunting In Venice; Humour and light horror abound in Kenneth Branagh’s effective murder mystery

After the lush, star-studded class of Murder on the Orient Express (2017) and the campier inclinations of 2022’s Death on the Nile, it makes sense that Kenneth Branagh would again change the temperament of his latest Hercule Poirot mystery.  Adhering to a darker, more supernaturally-infused mentality, A Haunting In Venice is the most unsettling of…

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Maggie Moore(s) flirts with potential before fumbling its lead: Tribeca Film Festival Review

There’s an utterly fascinating (and still unsolved) murder case at the centre of Maggie Moore(s), the second directorial feature from Mad Men alum John Slattery, which aims for Coen Brothers-esque comedic darkness, but unfortunately falls short of Fargo greatness. The real case at hand was a dual assassination of sorts in 2000 Texas, where two…

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Something supernatural this way comes in first trailer for Kenneth Branagh’s A Haunting in Venice

Fresh from its first-look premiere for attendees at this year’s CinemaCon Convention in Las Vegas, 20th Century Studios have released the unsettling teaser for A Haunting in Venice – the latest mystery from Kenneth Branagh, reprising his role as the famed detective Hercule Poirot, following both Murder on the Orient Express and last year’s Death…

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Film Review: The visually stunning Soul is life-affirming, full of joy and unafraid to address reality

A far more meaningful film now given the climate of the world at hand, Soul is a deeply-felt, oft-hilarious, more experimental effort from Pixar that serves as a lovely ode to both life and death.  Whilst it absolutely deserves the cinema treatment it’s unfortunately being denied – the film will stream from December 25th on…

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Film Review: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (USA, 2016)

Kim Baker, a war correspondent stationed in Afghanistan around 2005, is told by her local guide and interpreter, Fahim, that she is growing attached to the “thrill of the chase” – the hunting down of the leads, the perilous situations, the fearlessness of living and working in a war-torn country.  He tells her seriously and…

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Win a copy of The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Season One on DVD

From the minds of comedy geniuses Tina Fey and Robert Carlock comes The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, “the most whip-smart, subversive, life-loving and hilarious sitcom produced this year” (The Guardian). Starring a spectacular comedic cast including Ellie Kemper (Bridesmaids), Jon Hamm (Mad Men), Jane Krakowski (30 Rock) and Tituss Burgess (30 Rock). Rescued after fifteen years…

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Check out the full trailer for Season 2 of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

It’s been a long wait for fans of Tina Fey’s Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt but the Netflix comedy’s second season is almost here The trailer itself looks to be more of the same, with Kimmy (Ellie Kemper) continuing to adjust the rhythm of modern life, Titus Andromedon (Tituss Burgess) trying to make it in the big city and…

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Tina Fey and Margot Robbie turn the tables in new Whiskey Tango Foxtrot promo clip

Tina Fey and Margot Robbie are doing a lot of promotional interviews for the upcoming Whiskey Tango Foxtrot this week but in a new video released by Paramount they turn the tables on the journalists by conducting their own interviews. It’s a pretty fantastic clip, check it out below: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot hits Australian cinemas 12 May 2016. ———-…

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Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt returns in teaser trailer

Netflix has a lot of big series returning over the next few months and they’ve released a teaser for the second season of Tina Fey‘s electric comedy Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. Check it out below: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt returns on April 15th. ———- This content has recently been ported from its original home on The Iris…

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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot gets a new trailer

A new trailer for Tina Fey’s WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT dropped over the weekend. In case you hadn’t heard of it, the Tina Fey-fronted comedy-war film sees Fey take on the role of a war correspondent in Pakistan and Afghanistan and is based on the book, The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Kim Barker….

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Film Review: Sisters (USA, 2015)

One would think that teaming Tina Fey and Amy Poehler on the big screen would have incredible results. Both are some of the funniest, wittiest, and charming comedians of our time, each scoring big on their respective breakout TV hits, with Fey lighting up 30 Rock and Poehler on Parks & Recreation. Though, their unmistakable…

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Tina Fey tries her hand at action-comedy in our first look at Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

Witty SNL/30 Rock legend Tina Fey is dipping her toes in action-comedy next year for Glenn Ficarra and John Requa’s Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, a spirited adaptation based on 2011 memoir The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Chicago Tribune journalist Kim Barker. In the film, Fey portrays Barker, a ProReblica reporter out…

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First look at Tina Fey and Amy Poehler in Sisters

As they wrap up another year of slaying the Golden Globes, the much adored duo of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler bring their dynamism to the bring screen in upcoming Universal Pictures film Sisters. Universal have released a first-look trailer for the Jason Moore directed film, and it’s every bit as hilarious as you would…

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