A ‘Knight’ Out with Danny McBride

  Being a blogger isn’t always sunshine and lollipops, unless you are one of the lucky ones covering the bi-annual ‘Sonnenschein und Lolly-Knalle’ festival on the outskirts of Salzburg of course. Sometimes it’s a thankless, spell checking, dull awards-sitting, social nightmare of a thing. However, it also allows you the opportunity to be asked ‘Do you want to sit in a pub and chat to Danny McBride for a little bit?’, which is not something you say no to really.   Yes, the insanely manly-looking star of such movies as ‘Pineapple Express’ and the T.V. show ‘Eastbound and Down’ was in town to promote new fantasy comedy epic ‘Your Highness’. Following a screening of the film (which a review can be found here), Danny came on stage for a quick Q&A hosted by the quick-witted, priest-voiced comedian Jarlath Regan. Here Danny would discuss such topics as the dangers of carrying … There’s more

Movie Review: Your Highness

I was supposed to interview Damian Lewis for this which would have been good - and - I could have gone to a meet up of sorts with Danny McBride - that I really would have liked. For reasons closer to home I simply couldn’t make that gig. Would have been nice nice to see how that worked out though… That said, I did get to the press screening last week and - in case you maybe wondering, there’s not much difference between a press screening and a normal screening apart from I got to see it earlier than some. Same seats, same screens etc… To the film itself, the official blurb goes as follows Prince Fabious (James Franco) is brave, handsome and valiant in a medieval world where rescuing damsels, slaying dragons and conquering evil are second nature to any heroic knight. His brother Thadeous (Danny McBride) on the … There’s more