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Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (15)
(Declan Lowney, 2013, UK) Steve Coogan, Colm Meaney, Sean Pertwee, Felicity Montagu, Anna Maxwell Martin. 90 mins
Coogan's comic alter-ego goes big screen at last, but fear not: he's just as pathetically provincial and inadvertently offensive as he ever was – and just as consistently hilarious. A siege situation at Partridge's Norfolk radio station is the excuse to "open out" the scenario and explore the talk DJ's latent heroic side, but – as usual – the day is saved by Coogan's deft characterisation, some great writing and a love/hate fascination with Middle English mediocrity.
The Lone Ranger (12A)
(Gore Verbinski, 2013, Us) Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer. 149 mins
Where Verbinski and Depp struck a great action-comedy balance with Pirates Of The Caribbean (and Rango), attempts...
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (15)
(Declan Lowney, 2013, UK) Steve Coogan, Colm Meaney, Sean Pertwee, Felicity Montagu, Anna Maxwell Martin. 90 mins
Coogan's comic alter-ego goes big screen at last, but fear not: he's just as pathetically provincial and inadvertently offensive as he ever was – and just as consistently hilarious. A siege situation at Partridge's Norfolk radio station is the excuse to "open out" the scenario and explore the talk DJ's latent heroic side, but – as usual – the day is saved by Coogan's deft characterisation, some great writing and a love/hate fascination with Middle English mediocrity.
The Lone Ranger (12A)
(Gore Verbinski, 2013, Us) Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer. 149 mins
Where Verbinski and Depp struck a great action-comedy balance with Pirates Of The Caribbean (and Rango), attempts...
- 8/10/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
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