Ninian Doff’s comedy Get Duked! wasn’t really on my radar earlier this year (back when it was called Boyz in the Wood), but I decided to give it a go, and I’m glad I did. It has the gleeful anarchy I enjoy in films like Hot Fuzz, Attack the Block, and Sightseers where domestic tranquility is shattered by violence, and that violence is greeted by silly dark comedy. It’s a unique mixture that’s more common to British comedy than it is for the U.S., and that combination gives Get Duked! its pop. You should …
The hook of The Lovebirds isn't bad—what if you were forced into life-and-death circumstances with your significant other moments after you broke up? Unfortunately, Michael Showalter's new rom-com never really transcends this hook, and instead falls into standard crime-comedy tropes. In the hands of lesser actors, The Lovebirds would quickly fall apart and feel like a lesser version of a movie like Date Night, which wasn't that great a movie when it came out a decade ago. But like that movie, your comedy can go along way when you've got the …