ScreenScribe

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People: TV3, 8.30pm Saturday. As The Washington Post observed of this uneven dramatisation of a British intellectual’s Big Apple baptism in celebrity journalism: “The movie based on [Toby] Young’s 2002 memoir is a good bit blunter. One early laugh comes at the expense of a pig urinating on a […]

American Pie – The Wedding: Sky Movies Greats, 8.30pm Saturday The last of the theatrical releases before the franchise descended into direct-to-DVD drudgery reunites half of the gang for Jim and Michelle’s nuptials. Most critics kissed off this bride and groom romp, although Variety recommended it as a “gross-out comedy masterpiece” and Premiere thought it […]

The Proposal: Sky Movies, 8.30pm Sunday. Expert casting, brisk pacing and funny if formulaic odd-couple shenanigans make this Proposal hard to resist. Sandra Bullock plays a cranky career woman who manipulates her persecuted personal assistant (Ryan Reynolds) into masquerading as her fiancée to beat a deportation charge. As slight as it is silly but worth […]