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Is Cancer Comedy the New Misery Memoir?

Paul Bassett Davies | Posted 31.01.2012 | UK Comedy
Read More: Cancer, Comedy, Seth Rogen, Death & Dying, Writing, Screenplay, Funny, Memoir, 50/50, UK Comedy News
Paul Bassett Davies

The classic Five Stages of Loss, also known as the Five Stages of Dying, are: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Boredom, and Acceptance. Wait, that's six. Where does Boredom come into the picture? Answer: after about thirty minutes, if the picture in question is 50/50, the new 'Cancer Comedy.'

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I Wish I Could Turn My Friends Into a Script (Though I'm Glad They Don't Have Cancer)

Ben Falk | Posted 29.01.2012 | UK Entertainment
Read More: Jack Black, Seth Rogen 50/50, Will Reiser, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Cancer, Jesus Christ Superstar, Seth Rogen, 50/50, UK Entertainment News
Ben Falk

They tell you to write what you know. But once you hit your mid-thirties and your days are a random melee of friends' kids and feeling grumpy after that run you forced yourself to take, it becomes increasingly hard to find something to write about.

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Review- 50/50

Jack Pelling | Posted 25.01.2012 | UK Entertainment
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Jack Pelling

 I always approach the comedy/drama with a certain sense of trepidation, as it is very rare that a film that styles itself in such a way provides the...

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