Scheming friends from a council estate - 'everything' James McAvoy wanted

‘SNL’ and ‘Always Sunny’ Sketch Duo BriTANicK Are Drawing Comparisons to Jordan Peele and Zach Cregger With Two SXSW Comedies

Brian McElhaney and Nick Kocher, more commonly known by their sketch-comedy name BriTANicK, may be best friends, but their funniest jokes usually emerge after a long, drawn-out battle.  “I want option A, and Brian wants option B,” Kocher says. “We fight for a week straight, and neither of us gives up. So we finally come […]

French Drama ‘A Place For Her’ Wins Audience Award At Glasgow Film Festival As Event Wraps With James McAvoy’s ‘California Schemin’

Mélisa Godet’s debut feature A Place For Her has won the Audience Award at the Glasgow Film Festival, which wrapped on March 8.  The French drama, which was voted for from a selection of 10 films in the strand from first or second-time directors, follows a dedicated doctor and her team striving to keep their women’s shelter open and to help women heal from abuse.  The festival wrapped on Sunday with the UK premiere of James McAvoy’s director…

‘Four teens in their 30s!’ Lovable New York comedy gang Simple Town land in London

They wowed the Edinburgh fringe with whip-smart sketches about Nasa engineers and what their audience were thinking. Now the slacker troupe are back on stage – but a long way from TV screensWhen a “New York cult favourite sketch group” (as per the blurb) visits the UK, we may imagine we are getting the next big thing. But by the end of a transatlantic video call to three-quarters of the four-piece Simple Town, I am disabused of such naivety. “We…

Scheming friends from a council estate - 'everything' James McAvoy wanted

McAvoy's directorial debut tells the true story of two Scottish musicians who reinvented themselves as American rappers Silibil N' Brains.

James McAvoy says Glasgow is a 'massive part' of why his new film 'works'

James McAvoy says it was “really humbling” to stand on stage and direct a crowd of 2000 people at Glasgow’s Barrowland Ballroom as part of his…