The advertisements for 2007’s Berlinale Golden Bear winner, Tuya’s Marriage – and is there anything so ubiquitous as the ads for a two-year-old foreign film on the art house circuit? – all make the claim that it’s a warm study of human resilience. This is at best misleadingly true; the particular manner that the film […]

The traps awaiting the sequel to an unexpectedly successful comedy are easy to pinpoint, because virtually every such film stumbles into them. Everyone who has seen the increasingly desperate films in the Austin Powers trilogy knows this: the likeliest path for a comedy sequel to take is to recreate the gags from the original movie […]