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Sean Baker recommended Naked (1993) in Movies (curated)

Naked (1993)

1993 | Drama

8.7

(3 Ratings)

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"I love all of Mike Leigh’s films but this is the one that had a big impact on me. Like all of films above, it beautifully combines comedy and drama. It was also a stylistic departure for Leigh, who still held on to the British social-realism vibe but delivered it in a very cinematic and calculated way. Also should be seen for Katrin Cartlidge who had a very bright but tragically short career."

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The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King #1-4)

T.H. White

7.7 (6 Ratings) Rate It

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T.H White′s masterful retelling of the Arthurian legend is an abiding classic. Here all five...

One Leg Too Few

William Cook

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One Leg Too Few will feature an extensive range of fresh interviews, previously unpublished archive...

Monty Python's Flying Circus

8.9 (22 Ratings) Rate It

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Monty Python’s Flying Circus (known during the final series as just Monty Python) is a British...

The Craggus (360 KP) rated Patrick (2018) in Movies

Jul 3, 2018 (Updated Jul 5, 2018)

Patrick (2018)

2018 | Comedy

5.0

(2 Ratings)

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You don’t choose the pug life, it chooses you. Patrick (2018) #Review

“Patrick”, a featherweight new British comedy from the director of “Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie” is so smug that it might as well be subtitled ‘First World Problems: The Movie’. It’s a mercy, then, that it’s so utterly oblivious to its own sense of self-satisfied privilege and so very, very bland that it’s hard to summon up any kind of ire against it...

FULL REVIEW: bit.ly/CraggusPatrick

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Steve Buscemi recommended Billy Liar (1963) in Movies (curated)

Billy Liar (1963)

1963 | Comedy, Drama, Romance

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"An early sixties, black and white British gem from John Schlesinger. Tom Courtenay plays a dreamer who wants to bust out of his small town with the help of Julie Christie. One of the saddest endings to a comedy I’ve ever seen. I saw John Schlesinger give a Q&A after a special screening at the Film Forum, and he said he didn’t feel that the ending was sad at all, just appropriate to Billy’s character."

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Otway93 (580 KP) rated Clockwise (1986) in Movies

Oct 21, 2019 (Updated Oct 21, 2019)

Clockwise (1986)

1986 | Action, Comedy

6.7

(3 Ratings)

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Excellent, but hasn't aged well.

Not one of John Cleese's best films, but a good one nonetheless.

Clockwise is a very typical road-trip comedy, but from before everybody was doing it.

The plot can be summed up as A-B, hijinx along the way etc., as I said: very typical. But as this is John Cleese it stands apart from the typical road trip comedy, with classic British humour (not for everyone, but I love it), and a protagonist not unlike Cleese's Basil Fawlty character.

Unfortunately the film hasn't aged well, most of the predicaments could be easily solved with modern technology, and the film certainly shows its age.

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Georgia Hubley recommended Billy Liar (1963) in Movies (curated)

Billy Liar (1963)

1963 | Comedy, Drama, Romance

(0 Ratings)

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"Being swept up in British pop culture and its swinging sixties scene is something that I am not close to alone in and yet may be hard-pressed to explain. Well, the British are so beautiful, and you can’t understand a word they’re saying. Screaming girls and Beatle haircuts may provide some distraction, but A Hard Day’s Night captures the mood of a traumatized postwar culture just as effectively as other, starker films of the “new” British cinema. In Billy Liar, Tom Courtenay’s Billy could be a famous Beatle in the making except that comedy writing is his calling, and the more eccentric and imaginative he allows himself to become creatively, the clearer it is how stifled he is by his family, his lack of self, and his generally dismal surroundings. The bleakness and futurelessness are so embedded in this character’s outlook and ultimate outcome that even the sway of Julie Christie’s modern vivaciousness and beautiful smile can’t compete with his inability to rise out of his own sorry lot in life. Just a little bit heartbreaking."

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Imogen SB (4507 KP) rated The Young Ones in TV

Oct 3, 2019

The Young Ones

1982 | Comedy

8.2

(23 Ratings)

TV Show Rating

This show was well and truly the start of a new fantastic branch of British Comedy. I cannot translate why this show is so fantastic in words, and I also believe that anyone from outside the UK will not be able to translate the humour into any words - or sense at that.

The thing is, it's not even that funny, however, I still cannot get myself to turn it off once I've put it on. It's just bizarre but so great.