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How can something so wrong feel so right? Just one of the questions you are bound to ask if you decide to make the leap of faith and watch this film. Kazakhstan's favourite TV journo decides that a trip to the "U, S and A" is just what his country needs so he heads off with his trusty producer, Azamat. Absolutely hilarious; the Pamela Anderson stalking, the cheese-eating, the ‘running of the Jew', a Pamplona-style event in Borat's village, the gypsy-tear-collecting, the rodeo crowd cheering Bora
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G.B.H. DISC 1 (1991)
Certification15 Our Rating
GBH is set in the early 1990s. The plot revolves around attempts by UK government secret services to discredit ambitious and charismatic left-wing coucil leader Murray and each episode reveals more about the convoluted nature of this plot.
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G.B.H. DISC 2 (1991)
Certification15 Our Rating
It is beginning to emerge that neither Jim Nelson nor his council adversary are entirely sane. Meanwhile sinister forces are emerging. If you're not hooked yet, why not? Excellent stuff.
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G.B.H. DISC 3 (1991)
Certification15 Our Rating
Alan Bleasdale's story continues; Murray's family deserts him, but all he cares about is finding Eileen and he's beginning to lose control. Without a doubt he's being manipulated, but by whom and to what end? And will it all end in tears?
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G.B.H. DISC 4 (1991)
Certification15 Our Rating
The plot thickens... Jim and Michael are both becoming increasingly insane, but also beginning to look more like friends than foes in the face of the sinister conspiracies. The concluding episode continues to set the screen alight and Bleasdale's message is superbly hammered home.
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IN THE LOOP (2009)
Certification15 Our Rating
For those of you not in the know this is a brilliant satire on a bunch of totally cynical New Labour twats, incompetent elected officials and a bunch of muddling bureaucrats. Capaldi is superb, as the PM's foul mouthed attack dog enforcer (Alistair Campbell), as our politicians conspire with both hawks and doves in Washington in the fumbling build-up to a major war to grab oil in the Middle East.
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MANUFACTURING CONSENT: NOAM CHOMSKY AND THE MEDIA (1992)
Certification12 Our Rating
This film showcases Noam Chomsky, one of America's leading linguists and political dissidents. It illustrates his message of how government and big media businesses cooperate to produce an effective propaganda machine in order to manipulate the opinions of the United States' populace. Travelling with Chomsky through Canada, Japan, Europe and across the USA, the documentary bears witness to a tireless man informing, challenging, and being confronted by the public and the press. Fascinating, distu
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REDS (1982)
Certification15 Our Rating
The film is based on the life of John Reed, the Communist, journalist, and writer who chronicled the Russian Revolution in his book Ten Days that Shook the World. The film works both as a history of the American left and as an epic romance, between Reed and Louise Bryant, an important feminist and radical journalist in her own right. After involvement with labour and political disputes in the US, they go to Russia in time for the 1917 October Revolution and, inspired, return to the US, hoping to
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STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE (2008)
Certification15 Our Rating
With over two years of investigation, including the collection of a million and a half words of interview transcript, 'Standard Operating Procedure', from director Errol Morris, is the story behind the infamous photographs taken by US soldiers in Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison. Not as interesting or revelatory as you might hope, and hamstrung as Morris is by the fact that most of those interviewed aren't that bright or able to verbalise why they did what they did, and are only clear that they were hun
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THE HUNTING PARTY (2007)
Certification15 Our Rating
TV news reporter Simon and cameraman Duck's careers have gone in separate directions since they last worked together. Now Duck is back in Bosnia to cover the anniversary of the war's end when luckless Simon appears saying he has tracked down Bosnia's most infamous war criminal. The two men, with little advance planning and rookie journalist Ben in tow, hurl themselves into the search. Just about everyone they meet is convinced they are a secret CIA hit squad, a big, but very dangerous, benefit.
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