Peter Bradshaw

Grabbers - review

Shaun Of The Dead lurks at the back of this likable and technically impressive Ireland-set comedy-horror.

Sightseers - review

Comedies don't come much darker than this chillingly distinctive caravan caper from the makers of Kill List.

Stitches - review

A vengeful clown comes back from the dead - but it's more revolting than funny or scary.

The Decoy Bride - review

Kelly Macdonald gives an attractive performance in a cheerfully absurd comedy-farce that pokes fun at the Richard Curtis romcom.

Black Pond - review

A first time British feature that is a deeply eccentric, haunting marvel.

The Lavender Hill Mob - review

Alec Guinness is the timid bank clerk in one of the classic Ealing comedies celebrating its 60th birthday with a cinema rerelease.

Will the nation gurn again for George Formby?

A resurgence in the popularity of the ukulele could rekindle our bizarre affection for the oddball singer-comedian.

Review: Tamara Drewe

Stephen Frears's adaptation of the Posy Simmonds comic strip is like the filthiest possible episode of The Archers.

Love Actually

This whole movie is shortcuts, but not like Robert Altman. It's more like watching a 135-minute trailer for a film called "Love Actually".

Of course they aren't really David Baddiel and Peter Bradshaw in the programme. But this is a very funny sitcom on the Jerry Seinfeld model: David Baddiel's character is an architect called David Baddiel, and he exercises his familiar, likeable stand-up persona inside a fictional world. It's refreshing to see a British sitcom character bypass the usual range of gurning reaction shots and quite patently appear "as himself".