In the Loop (2009)
Country: GB
Technical: col 106m
Director: Armando Iannucci
Cast: Peter Capaldi, Tom Hollander, Gina McKee, James Gandolfini, Chris Addison
Synopsis:
Simon Foster, from television's The Thick of It, and his nemesis, the, one senses,, euphemistically named Malcolm Tucke play cat and mouse over the build up to the second Iraq war, with the former and his aide half-heartedly chasing an uncommissioned US paper on the unfeasibility of an eventual war, and the latter desperately attempting to quash it.
Review:
Successful opening out of the profane TV show about spin doctors and their tyranny over cowering politicians into a decidedly foul-mouthed feature-length scenario of an exposé-like scale. The implications, that our democracy is crucially in the unscrupulous hands of image manipulators with the press and radio in their pockets, are well known to the more hysterical elements of our satirical community on TV and radio, but gain added weight here thanks to the well-constructed screenplay and the addition of a bemused American contingent, so often more corrupt than good old HM's govt in the movies.
Country: GB
Technical: col 106m
Director: Armando Iannucci
Cast: Peter Capaldi, Tom Hollander, Gina McKee, James Gandolfini, Chris Addison
Synopsis:
Simon Foster, from television's The Thick of It, and his nemesis, the, one senses,, euphemistically named Malcolm Tucke play cat and mouse over the build up to the second Iraq war, with the former and his aide half-heartedly chasing an uncommissioned US paper on the unfeasibility of an eventual war, and the latter desperately attempting to quash it.
Review:
Successful opening out of the profane TV show about spin doctors and their tyranny over cowering politicians into a decidedly foul-mouthed feature-length scenario of an exposé-like scale. The implications, that our democracy is crucially in the unscrupulous hands of image manipulators with the press and radio in their pockets, are well known to the more hysterical elements of our satirical community on TV and radio, but gain added weight here thanks to the well-constructed screenplay and the addition of a bemused American contingent, so often more corrupt than good old HM's govt in the movies.
Country: GB
Technical: col 106m
Director: Armando Iannucci
Cast: Peter Capaldi, Tom Hollander, Gina McKee, James Gandolfini, Chris Addison
Synopsis:
Simon Foster, from television's The Thick of It, and his nemesis, the, one senses,, euphemistically named Malcolm Tucke play cat and mouse over the build up to the second Iraq war, with the former and his aide half-heartedly chasing an uncommissioned US paper on the unfeasibility of an eventual war, and the latter desperately attempting to quash it.
Review:
Successful opening out of the profane TV show about spin doctors and their tyranny over cowering politicians into a decidedly foul-mouthed feature-length scenario of an exposé-like scale. The implications, that our democracy is crucially in the unscrupulous hands of image manipulators with the press and radio in their pockets, are well known to the more hysterical elements of our satirical community on TV and radio, but gain added weight here thanks to the well-constructed screenplay and the addition of a bemused American contingent, so often more corrupt than good old HM's govt in the movies.