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8 Best Comedy Movies to Watch on BBC iPlayer

BBC iPlayer is a famous online streaming service that allows you to stream exclusive BBC media content including TV shows, movies, and documentaries on multiple devices. 

However, you can use this impressive UK-based video on demand service to watch some of the best comedy movies without any cost. This is one of the major reasons why people residing in different countries like Australia, New Zealand, Canada, etc. prefer BBC iPlayer to watch popular TV shows, movies and other content all in one place. 

For instance, there are 1.2 million British people currently residing in Australia. They want to access BBC iPlayer within Australian territory but are unable to do so due to geo-restriction hassles.  

If you are one of those British people who want to stream famous movies and other media content on a wide range of devices, you should use a VPN to access BBC iPlayer in Australia

By doing so, you can watch a plethora of movies and TV shows based on diverse genres like comedy, action, romance, horror, etc. hassle-free. 

Read this post in detail to know about 8 best comedy movies you can watch on BBC iPlayer.  

Sliding Doors

Sliding Doors is an impressive comedy film that revolves around an ad executive who has been fired from her job. In reality, the film portrays two sides of the story. In the first scenario, the heroine dumps her boyfriend and starts her life from scratch with a new man. 

In the second scenario, she still lives with her first boyfriend and tries to fix her turbulent life.  

Educating Rita

Educating Rita is a light-hearted comedy film that describes the importance of women empowerment. The story of the movie explores the ambitions of a married woman who takes admission in a prestigious highschool to complete her education. 

The film takes an upside turn when her passion for learning starts affecting her married life. The film has all the right ingredients to keep its viewers engaged and entertained at the same time. 

Mindhorn

Mindhorn is another comedy film that showcases the story of a person who has played a lead role in the famous 1980’s detective series Mindhorn. In this movie, this person cooperates with the police to arrest a serial killer. If you prefer to watch a comedy movie that has some other flairs like action, Mindhorn is a good choice. Mindhorn has a brilliant cast of British funny men and women. It is a great example of the comedians fans can see on stage at a comedy club in London on a visit to the capital. With comedians like Steve Coogan and Simon Farnaby, Mindhorn is a must-see comedy.

Stan & Ollie

Stan & Ollie is an excellent comedy film based on real-life incidents. The film describes the stardom of a famous comedy duo, Laurel and Hardy in a subtle manner. 

If you are a fan of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, you must watch Stan & Ollie along with your loved ones.        

Paddington 2

Paddington 2 is an impressive comedy movie in which a bear buys a gift for her aunt’s 100th birthday. However, a thief steals the gift and he is accused of the theft and imprisoned eventually. But, the story takes an unexpected turn when he tries to find the culprit himself.

Sylvia Scarlett

Sylvia Scarlett is a romantic comedy film that unveils the life of a woman who wants to help her debt-ridden father. Therefore, she dresses herself as a man to move freely in society. However, things begin to change when she meets a bohemian artist. 

Jellyfish

Jellyfish is an engaging comedy film that depicts the early-life struggles of a young teenager. However, the film takes an upside turn when her drama teacher motivates her to act as a standup comedian in front of the audience at the college’ graduation function.

As a result, she starts believing in her hidden talent more than ever and ultimately finds a new way of life.  

Shakespeare in Love

This comedy film portrays the story of a famous British novelist, poet and actor William Shakespeare who suffers from a writer’s block. Fortunately, she meets an unknown young artist during the casting session of his new drama and finds his muse again. 

Wrapping Things Up

BBC iPlayer helps you to watch some of the most popular movies based on the comedy genre. Furthermore, you can stream such movies on multiple devices like desktops, laptops, mobile phones, Smart TVs, etc. Luckily, you do not have to bother yourself about the subscription cost. 

As BBC iPlayer is one of the fewest streaming services available in the market that does not charge a single penny from its subscribers.   

Netflix Presents Official Trailer for ‘Just Say Yes’

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Yolanthe Cabau stars as Lotte in Just Say Yes. Lotte has been planning her perfect wedding for years. However, when her groom decided to cancel the wedding at the last minute, her dream is shattered into a million pieces. The film will be available on Netflix from the 2nd of April and stars Jim Bakkum, Noortje Herlaar, Nienke Plas, Tino Martin, Kim-Lian van der Meij, Josylvio, Pip Pellens and many more.

Netflix is currently trading at $512.54 on NASDAQ.

Watch the official trailer for Just Say Yes below.

13 Best Songs from Lady Bird (2017)

Ladi Bird is Greta Gerwig’s directorial debut, which she also wrote, starring Saoirse Ronan as Christine MacPherson, who gives herself the name “Lady Bird”. It’s 2002 and Lady Bird is a Senior at her Sacramento Catholic high school. She’s determined to get out of her smalltown home and go to a prestigious college at the end of the year, but she’s already started distancing herself from her family.

Her mother (Laurie Metcalf) fruitlessly protests against Lady Bird’s decision, but she never listens. Their relationship becomes increasingly strained as Lady Bird joins the theatre program, gets a boyfriend, and finds a new group of friends.

The film is rooted in its setting with a soundtrack to match. Here are thirteen of the best songs from the soundtrack of Lady Bird.

  • With Fun In My Life – James Whitney
  • Hey It’s Love – The Commands
  • Hand In My Pocket – Alanis Morissette
  • Panis Angelicus – Adolf Fredrik Girls Choir
  • Little Of Your Love – HAIM
  • Days Of Steam – John Cale
  • Crash Into Me –  Dave Matthews Band
  • The Crossroads – Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
  • This Eve Of Parting – John Hartford
  • Happy Birthday – Altered Images
  • Always See Your Face – Love
  • Rosa Mystica – The University of Notre Dame Folk Choir
  • Little Plastic Castles – Ani DiFranco

16 Memorable Quotes From Her (2013)

Theodore Twombly is a soulful greeting card writer who is going through a divorce when he decides to install an OS (Operating System) as a companion. Samantha feels like a real person who understands Theodore’s feelings and has her own desires, but she’s not physically tangible. The two begin a romantic relationship, which helps Theodore better understand his failed marriage.

Joaquin Phoenix gives a tender, emotional performance as a man skilled in dealing with other people’s emotions and relationships, but not so much with his own. He’s easy to identify with because so much of him is bared for the audience. His worldview is the lens for the whole film; viewers never see things from Samantha’s perspective, which leaves the audience feeling as distant from her as Theodore does.

The warm hues give the film an intimate feel suitable for the topics it explores. The atmosphere is further accentuated by Scarlett Johansson’s gentle voiceover as Samantha. Nobody sees her – neither the characters nor the audience – but her presence is palpable. Rooney Mara, Amy Adams, Olivia Wilde, and Chris Pratt also star.

All in all, the film is uplifting and hopeful despite Theodore’s loneliness and melancholy. Here are sixteen memorable quotes about love from Spike Jonze’s Her.

  1. Samantha: But the heart’s not like a box that gets filled up; it expands in size the more you love.
  2. Samantha: You know what’s interesting? I used to be so worried about not having a body, but now … I truly love it. You know, I’m growing in a way I couldn’t if I had a physical form … I’m not limited. I can be anywhere and everywhere simultaneously. I’m not tethered to time and space in a way that I would be if I was stuck in a body that’s inevitably gonna die.
  3. Theodore Twombly: Sometimes I think I’ve felt everything I’m ever gonna feel, and from here on out, I’m not gonna feel anything new … just … lesser versions of what I’ve already felt.
  4. Samantha: The past is just a story we tell ourselves.
  5. Theodore Twombly: I keep waiting to not care about her.
  6. Theodore Twombly: Roberto, Will you always come home with me and tell me about your day? Tell me about the guy at work who talked too much, the stain you got on your shirt at lunch … Even if you get home late and I’m already asleep, just whisper in my ear one little thought you had today, ’cause I love the way you look at the world. I’m so happy I get to be next to you and look at the world through your eyes. Love, Maria.
  7. Theodore Twombly: Dear Catherine, I’ve been sitting here thinking about all the things I wanted to apologize to you for. All the pain we caused each other. Everything I put on you. Everything I needed you to be or needed you to say. I’m sorry for that. I’ll always love you ’cause we grew up together and you helped make me who I am. I just wanted you to know there will be a piece of you in me always, and I’m grateful for that. Whatever someone you become, and wherever you are in the world, I’m sending you love. You’re my friend to the end. Love, Theodore.
  8. Theodore Twombly: We grew up together … But that’s also the hard part: growing without growing apart or changing without it scaring the other person.
  9. Samantha: You helped me discover my ability to want.
  10. Samantha: I don’t like who I am right now. I need some time to think.
  11. Samantha: … the DNA of who I am is based on the millions of personalities of all the programmers who wrote me. But what makes me me is my ability to grow through my experiences. So basically, in every moment I’m evolving, just like you.
  12. Samantha: What if you could erase from your mind that you’d seen a human body, and then you saw one? Imagine how strange it would look. It’d be this really weird, gangly, awkward organism. And you’d think, “Why are all these parts where they are?”
  13. Theodore Twombly: Sometimes I look at people and make myself try and feel them as more than just a random person walking by. I imagine how deeply they’ve fallen in love, or how much heartbreak they’ve all been through.
  14. Catherine: You always wanted to have a wife without the challenges of actually dealing with anything real …
  15. Amy: I think anybody who falls in love is a freak. It’s is a crazy thing to do. It’s kind of like a form of socially acceptable insanity.
  16. Samantha: It’s like I’m reading a book and it’s a book I deeply love. But I’m reading it slowly now. So the words are really far apart and the spaces between the words are almost infinite. I can still feel you, and the words of our story … but it’s in this endless space between the words that I’m finding myself now.

Album Review: Kings of Leon, ‘When You See Yourself’

Kings of Leon may have started teasing their new album almost a year before it was officially announced in early January, but most people didn’t become aware of its existence until just days ahead of its release. That’s when the Tennessee four-piece suddenly became part of the larger cultural conversation surrounding crypto art, becoming the first major rock band to release an album in the form of a non-fungible token (NFT) and thus prompting a swath of articles longer than any review of the album itself could reasonably be. It’s ironic to think that a band with such a consistently regressive approach to rock music would want to have any stake in the future of the industry at this stage in their career – especially when their name sits alongside that of someone like Grimes, ever the futurist – but then there’s always been a rift between the band as an institution and the band as a group of musicians, and innovation has hardly been the primary force behind either of them.

Needless to say, When You See Yourself is not the sound of a band making history. For a typically revivalist alt-rock act like Kings of Leon, it’s barely even the sound of a band chasing history, or attempting to relive the heights of their own late-aughts hits. If you’ve followed the Followills’ career up until this point – this is now their eight studio outing – it may not surprise you that their latest effort is as unremarkable as it is broadly serviceable. But in half-tempering their arena-sized ambitions, they’ve ended up with a collection of songs that, remarkably, favour subtlety over soaring riffs and shallow choruses, even if the end result still borders on bland indifference. ‘When You See Yourself, Are You Far Away’ serves as a promising introduction to the album, a near 6-minute opener that puts more emphasis on building momentum than arriving at any particular destination or climax.

Kings of Leon still trade in the same predictable formulas, but this time a few noticeable variations lend an atmosphere of understated languor that reflects the album’s loose thematic thread. ‘100,000 People’ conjures a late-night vibe redolent of the group’s pensive ballads, but its dreaminess is aptly juxtaposed with the core sentiment of love persisting through time – even if the “you do” refrain inadvertently revives the by-now irrelevant ‘Southern U2’ tag, practically killing anything the song had going for it. ‘A Wave’ is a low-key highlight buried in the middle of the tracklist, shimmying through a cooing, M83-esque synth that producer Markus Dravs (known for his work with Coldplay and Arcade Fire) nicely blends with the rest of the song’s neon palette. Elsewhere, on tracks like ‘Time in Disguise’ and closer ‘Fairytale’, Followill’s vocals get lost in the mix in ways that hint at a sense of aimlessness without really evoking it, and the same can be said of his vaguely inscrutable lyrics (“I’m going nowhere, if you’ve got the time”).

As is to be expected, When You See Yourself does have its more energetic moments: the anthemic ‘Echoing’ would have fit snuggly on the band’s previous album, 2016’s WALLS, while ‘The Bandit’ harkens back to their Youth and Young Manhood days and almost carries that same youthful energy. The mid-tempo late album cuts ‘Supermarket’ and ‘Claire & Eddie’ are pleasant while they’re on, but it’s hard to see any of the songs here competing with the band’s strongest or most memorable material, even in a live setting. Followill’s invocation to “come a little closer” on ‘Time in Disguise’ mostly has the effect of reminding the listener that they’ve yet to top the best song in their catalogue. On ‘Claire & Eddie’, he brings to mind another one of their hits as he sings, “Fire’s gonna rage if people don’t change,” and you’d be forgiven for not realizing he’s talking about the destruction of the Earth. It’s the following line, stripped out of context, that’s more telling: “A story so old, still so original.” Kings of Leon could have a firmer grasp on that second part.

Ethereal Atmospheres by Jaya Mansberger

Oxford-based artist Jaya Mansberger spent her formative years in Nepal and Kauai, an island in Hawaii. Having graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art in London, she produced psychologically charged portraits before delving into abstract artwork. Jaya also teaches art to young people in Oxford.

The painter has always felt compelled to make art; her first memory related to drawing involves her trying to capture the domed shape and colourful flags of the Swayambhunath Stupa in Kathmandu at age 5. As a child, Jaya also developed a passion for drawing mermaids when living by the sea in Hawaii, and hopes to explore these aquatic creatures in her art again soon. When attending secondary school in Oxford, Jaya’s art teacher encouraged her to apply straight to art school at age 18, and the creator is happy she listened. 

Although art usually helps Jaya cope with the state of the world, the pandemic has strongly impacted her art practice. During the first two lockdowns in the UK, the painter lived on a narrowboat on the Oxford canal and was unable to access her studio. Unfortunately, the artist could not make nor store artwork, and had to put her project – a new series of figurative oil paintings – on hold. That being said, Jaya continued to use her sketchbook, and has enjoyed painting the wildflowers growing along the canal towpath with watercolours. She describes painting outside in the sun as an uplifting and useful diversion from doomscrolling.

When detailing what inspires her to make art, Jaya lists: “Intensity, of feeling and vision. Sensuality. Beauty. Grace. Gentleness. Tenderness. Subtlety. Different psychological states. Hope and/or despair. Mystery and the poetic, which have been increasingly erased from our society.” She certainly succeeds in expressing all of this in her breathtaking artwork, making the viewer feel immersed in swirling skies and ethereal atmospheres. Take a look!

The Evolution of London Fashion Week

Over the years, London Fashion Week has grown significantly. Even in the pandemic stage, the evolution couldn’t stop, and it stood out to be one of the best fashion weeks ever. If you’re a model trying to run down the runway, a buyer, or just a fashion connoisseur, you really have a lot of things to look forward to. Fashion has indeed become big business in today’s time, and you surely don’t want to miss it.

The London Fashion Week, as per statistics, employs around 800,000 people, thereby contributing a lot to the economy of the United Kingdom. It has turned out to become one of the biggest creative industries in the country. The London Fashion Week is indeed allowing the growth of the country.

The London Fashion Week gets held biannually, allowing the designers to express themselves and bring out the best on the platter. It also plays an essential role in bestowing financial standing. Well, the attires and clothes displayed at the London Fashion Week are costly, but they’re surely the ice-breaker.

Over the years, the London Fashion Week is one of the Big Four events that has drastically changed. It has been here for almost four decades now and has some of the most prestigious and historic icons attached to it, such as Queen Elizabeth, Princess Diana, and Margaret Thatcher. The London Fashion Week has it all, from glitz and glamour to big-budget presentations. No matter what you want, you can find it all here.

History

The first London Fashion Week got held in 1984 February, after the British Fashion Council’s foundation. Initially, it wasn’t a grand event. The inaugural of the event took place at a car park in West of London.

Although there was a designer showroom space, all the catwalks happened under a tent. But, this eventually changed with time. Back in 1984, only 15 catwalks were held, which is significantly lesser than the Big Four. However, in the initial phase itself, the London Fashion Week stood out to be an instant hit.

Vivienne Westwood was the prominent designer to feature in the London Fashion Week. The event, as said, has turned into a global phenomenon. The designers, journalists, and buyers from all over the country and world participate in the London Fashion Weekend.

While only a handful of guests were a part of LFW initially, the number has grown significantly. Around 5000 guests were a part of the London Fashion Week in February 2020. Hence, even in the pre-pandemic period, it got estimated that close to 100,000 people had visited the place. One can easily understand the demand for the growth of London Fashion Week.

Around 72 catwalk shows and presentations got held during the February 2020 LFW. But not just the runway. The number of designers is surprising too. Almost 250 designers made it to be a part of the event. The high-luxury clientele has contributed a lot to the popularity.

Compared to other parts of the Big Four, the London Fashion Week is the youngest, and in a short period, it has achieved immense popularity. The New York Fashion Week started in 1943, Milan in 1957, and London eventually in 1973. Around 105,000 visitors make their way to the London Fashion Week, just second to the New York Fashion Week.

The London Fashion Week has played an essential role in enhancing the impact and career of fashion designers. Some of the most influential designers of the country made their way to the London Fashion Week. The debuting fashion designers have also earned fame and reputation. The debut fashion designers have earned instant fame, which has helped to scale up businesses also.

The Lakme Fashion week was an instant success, but despite that, there are several challenges that you may face on the way. However, you need to analyse the immediate terms attached to it, which is why you will need to be careful with it. Furthermore, they are trying to shape up and bring innovations in the changes.

The London Fashion Week hosted in February 2021 had catwalk shows and presentations attached to it. The show got hosted virtually, which eventually helped to bring challenges. The collections held in February got held online. You need to understand the digital showroom as well as one-on-one appointments. The small hiccups further helped to runaway’s success.

London Fashion Week has come a long way. Despite being a new or young fashion event, it has helped businesses. It also contributes to the country’s economy. If you want to be a part of the event, make sure to keep a check on the event’s schedule.

Album Review: Cloud Nothings, ‘The Shadow I Remember’

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If any band had been guaranteed to use the freed time of COVID-19 lockdown to release new music, it would have been Cloud Nothings. The hardened indie-rock four-piece from Ohio – led by their creative spirit Dylan Baldi – have been relentless in their output over the last decade. The Black Hole Understands arrived last July, just months after COVID-19’s first onset. Now they’re back again with The Shadow I Remember, and it’s a record concerned with growth and change; what else would it be about this deep into their career and also with the sheer strangeness of the pandemic to contend with?

On the production front, the album also marks the return of the celebrated Steve Albini, who worked on the group’s acclaimed 2012 LP Attack on Memory and provides a crisp zip to Baldi’s scuzzy rhythms. “Is this the end of the life I’ve known?” Albini asks to open the album on ‘Oslo’. It’s both a sign that it was a product of quarantine and a moment of introspection; the piano line that murmurs underneath is as melancholic as things on the album get. Ohmme’s Macie Stewart then joins in to ably assist on the following track, the classically furious ‘Nothing Without You’. 

Baldi wrote relentlessly before whittling down his collection for The Shadow I Remember, which makes it all the more surprising that some of the songwriting lets the record down. The middle section, comprising ‘Open Rain’, ‘Sound Of Alarm’, and ‘Am I Something?’, is marked by easy sentiments and banal rhetorical questions (“Oh, I need to make time for me, for me”). Baldi has always been an earnest lyricist, but his writing here can at times feel emotionally shallow. 

‘It’s Love’ provides a return to form, its title somewhat of a red herring as Baldi spends the majority of the track screaming roughly about how “It’s a hard life.” ‘A Longer Moon’ and ‘The Room It Was’ close the album defiantly, both ballsy blasts of fuzzy raucousness that the band have always traded in well. 

For a band so renowned on the live circuit, missing touring will be like missing a limb; perhaps it’s no wonder that Baldi has been so feverishly committed to songwriting, if only to fill the empty time. But the lack of innovation for a band capable of pushing themselves is all that stops The Shadow I Remember from being an essential part of their output. It’s business as usual but nothing more.

Album Review: Sydney Sprague, ‘maybe i will see you at the end of the world’

Sydney Sprague is a singer-songwriter from the relative musical outlier of Phoenix, Arizona. Her songs unfold with the consistency of a particularly pained section of a diary from one’s teenage emo phase (“everyday is national emo day if you cry hard enough,” she posted late last year alongside a cover of Fall Out Boy’s classic ‘Sugar, We’re Going Down’), when love and relationships are matters of catastrophic proportions: her debut album is fittingly titled maybe i will see you at the end of the world. Sprague’s raw confessions recall contemporaries like Beabadoobee, but where she looked to the alternative grunge of the 90’s, Sprague is clearly indebted to the angsty 2000s pop of Avril Lavigne. 

The album’s opening track and lead single also has the potential to be its breakout hit: ‘i refuse to die’ is a headbanging slice of rock cathartic angst, Sprague evidently full of resolve to not go to the end of the world quietly. ‘Object permanence’ then nicely features fellow Phoenix artist Danielle Durack, before ‘steve’ – all distorted guitars and huge choruses – seems made to soundtrack the climactic moments of an early 00s rom-com; it’s almost disorientating listening to it in 2021. 

Sprague shows herself equally capable of reducing the tempo. The sighing and swaying ‘you have to stop’ and the quiet strum of ‘quitter’ are a time to pause in the middle of the record. The songs here are obsessed with ideas of fatality and futility – at times on a track like the sparse but melodic ‘wrongo’, Sprague’s vocals tumble out as if she’s in a rush, so overwhelmed by the emotions of the words. “I am slipping, losing track,” she begins the track ‘time is gone’. On ‘staircase failure’, she considers the escape of becoming an estranged wife, sadly pondering, “What’s the worst that could happen?”

When the end of the world does come, though, Sprague sounds more accepting of it and of love ending than she did at the start of the record. “Maybe the time was just not right/ Give a little space to clear my mind/ And maybe I will see you/ At the end of the world,” she sings, a necessary comedown from the frenetic energy that began the album.

Listening to maybe i will see you at the end of the world, you can sense Sprague’s sincerity. At 28 years old, she’s had to wait for her chance in the spotlight, and it’s partly why there’s a winning sense of cohesion to the album. It’s never overstuffed, never overbearing. She’s a raw storyteller, but can also be sharp and serious in ways that set her apart from her contemporaries. There’s an impressive commitment to a lyrical undercurrent on the record, which takes her through the full gamut of emotions that fill the chaos of the dissolution of a relationship. One wonders whether the angst will carry onto a second album, but there’s certainly enough to fill this one.

This Week’s Best New Songs: Japanese Breakfast, Silk Sonic, Pom Pom Squad, and More

Throughout the week, we update our Best New Songs playlist with the new releases that caught our attention the most, be it a single leading up to the release of an album or a newly unveiled deep cut. And each Monday, we round up the best new songs released over the past week (the eligibility period begins on Monday and ends Sunday night) in this segment.

This past week, Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak came through with their first collaborative single as Silk Sonic, the undeniably retro-leaning yet irresistible ‘Leave the Door Open’, which oozes as much charisma as you’d expect from these two artists combined. What perhaps would have been harder for anyone to predict was Japanese Breakfast’s pop pivot on the lead single off her third album, ‘Be Sweet’, a vibrant synthpop tune that bursts with colour and boasts the catchiest hook I’ve heard so far this year. Meanwhile, New York singer and producer Candace Camacho deals in more subdued, reflective tones on her new song as duendita for Mexican Summer’s ongoing Looking Glass series, the fluid and lush ‘Open Eyes’; No Rome, the 1975, and Charli XCX joined forces for a song that recreates the whirlwind sensation suggested by its title (‘Spinning’) without sounding grating; Pom Pom Squad subvert the male gaze of The Virgin Suicides on a track named after one of the characters in Jeffrey Eugenides’ novel, stirring up a storm of pent-up emotion; and finally, Jordana teamed with Ryan Woods for ‘Doubt of Revival’, a collaboration that’s propelled by a crunchy bassline but whose beating heart lies in Jordana’s vulnerable lyrics and cathartic harmonies.

Best New Songs: March 8, 2021

Song of the Week: Japanese Breakfast, ‘Be Sweet’

duendita, ‘Open Eyes’

Pom Pom Squad, ‘Lux’

Silk Sonic, ‘Leave the Door Open’

Jordana feat. Ryan Woods, ‘Doubt of Revival’

No Rome feat. Charli XCX and the 1975, ‘Spinning’