Mischief Movie Night - Arts / Tour / The Other Palace

If last night's film was coherent, tonight's film 'Suicide Squid' was the total opposite.

Supposedly a superhero film, but lacking a superhero, and much of a storyline - but utterly hilarious.

The pogo restaurant song was one of the funniest things I've ever seen, and Henry Lewis had some utterly ridiculous and hilarious moments. Niall's character was ridiculous and very funny too, and Henry Shields, who spent 95% of that film on his knees as a Gastronomic Illusion fish was highly amusing as well. I think this film had probably the most amount of cast corpsing of any film so far, and a distinct lack of awareness of time and names of characters by everyone.

Edit:  Just remembered the numerous attempts at Geordie accents at the end was very funny too.

Another brilliantly absurd film for the first of the double bill of MMN. The pogo restaurant musical number for me was the highlight for me. It's a shame there is no way to be able to re-watch these after they have streamed. Looking forward to the midnight show.

Also, a shoutout to the graphic designers who have been producing the film posters for this batch of MMN. The designs they have come up with have been great so far.

Can we please have more late night MMN’s. A absolutely hilarious museum heist musical film for the midnight show. It’s great to have a bit more adult humour especially loved Henry Shield’s internet line. Loved Harry Kershaw’s revenge when Jon Sayer made a cameo, then JS got his revenge shortly after.

Two fantastic movies tonight and worth stopping up for.

Lauren hadn't appeared in MMN until these streamed shows, though she's been a regular in Showstopper since 2016 - I've seen her in a number of them - & also appears with several other improv groups.


Now they've announced another batch of shows, I'd love it if Jonathan did one of them in the ensemble. He has done so occasionally in the past, during the 2017/18 run at the Arts Theatre I saw him in the ensemble 4 times.

Hawkesome fun.

Light Over The Rocks - the story about the rise to fame of a rock band/ a Chesney Hawkes tribute film

Joshua Elliott took the lead and was brilliant - both as his main character of Gerald (or Gregory/Geoffrey according to Harry), and his other more flamboyant characters like Tambourine Tommy. The open mic night was hilarious - the Mighty Throat were hilarious, and the other bands, like Venom Snake (featuring a very camp Josh and Niall). Henry Lewis as Chesney Hawkes was great fun, as were Harry Kershaw having a conversation with himself, Ellie Morris as Conan O'Brien (among other characters), Niall Ransome as numerous characters - his reaction to being announced as Dudley McDiddles was hilarious. Bryony Corrigan miming playing the penny whistle was great.

Nice of him to name check the cast in this tweet

Just leaving this here because it's something I've wanted to be able to do every time I've seen a stage improv show with someone having a conversation with themselves & finally I've been able to do it.

For those who watched last night, the newest entry to his page is excellent!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesney_Hawkes

I loved the slo-mo sequence, but I think my favourite bit was Bryony’s excuse for the noise in the dungeon, closely followed by her falling off the box, then having to rewind and do it again. 

Wild Feast - a Western zombie movie set in Edinburgh

Quite a dark movie by Mischief standards, with Dave and Ellie as the main villains. Bryony as Fergus Pickles was very amusing - her break dancing at the end was hilarious, and Harry Kershaw's character having his organs ripped out but complaining about back pain was very funny. So too, was Niall's character always finding the wrong camera for his close up. I also enjoyed Nancy and Bryony as the horses. The raps were pretty decent this evening too - not easy to do I imagine.  Mike's character was very likeable and I guess a lot of people were rooting for him.

As we've seen in previous movies, a ridiculous number of twists occurred towards the end as the film descended into chaos.  Everyone was cured of their zombie status by being tickled.

Looking forward today's double bill and it being a MMN 1st with the evening show being the sequel to the matinee show.

Another great show last night with the Western zombie film. Though the highlight for me was during the pre-show clips and Mike Bodie just casually walking across the green screen and then making a hasty exit. I'm just surprised this hasn't happened before now.