Tag: Comedy
Book and movie reviews in the comedy genre.
Revolutions 2: More Speculative Short Stories set in Manchester is my second anthology as an editor – a collection of science-fiction, fantasy and horror stories with one thing in…
Kingsman: The Golden Circle released in September 2017, starring Taron Egerton, and directed by Matthew Vaughn, is an espionage-comedy-thriller sequel to Kingsman: The Secret Service. It follows the continuing…
Charade staring Cary Grant as Peter Joshua, and Audrey Hepburn as Reggie Lampert, directed by Stanley Donen, and released in 1963, is a good example of a romantic-comedy-espionage-thriller, a genre crossover…
Olivia Joules, written by Helen Fielding, the author of the Bridget Jones novels, and published in 2004, is a comedy-romance-spy-thriller about a journalist who suspects a millionaire businessman may also…
Today is a proud day for me – the day we release Revolutions, my first anthology as editor. Revolutions is a collection of science-fiction, horror, dystopian and just plain weird…
The Gun Seller was written by Hugh Laurie and published in 1996. Critics often describe it as one of the best comedy espionage novels ever written. The Gun Seller: Title…
Iron Sky is a 2012 alternate history black comedy about a world where the Nazis fled to the moon in 1945. In 2018 they invade Earth. It was…
Kingsman: The Secret Service is a comedy-thriller spy movie released in 2015. It was directed by Matthew Vaughn, and stars Colin Firth as Harry Hart and Taron Egerton as Gary ‘Eggsy’ Unwin. Kingsman: Title The title uses a…
Our Man in Havana, written by Graham Greene and published in 1958, is one of the funniest and best spy novels ever written. Our Man in Havana: Title…
Spies Like Us stars Chevy Chase as Emmett Fitz-Hume and Dan Aykroyd as Austin Millbarge. It was directed by John Landis from a screenplay by Dan Aykroyd and others. It was released in 1985…