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You spin me right round baby right round

Advantages: Very funny
Disadvantages: Not quite as good as the TV version

A review of the Optimum Home Entertainment DVD, which will set you back about £3. The only new comedy series that I’ve really enjoyed over the last few years has been The Thick Of It, a BBC sitcom made by a Scotsman with an Italian name (Armando Ianucci) ...

hogsflesh 05.11.2011 · Read full review
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Here lies Alistair Campbell ---------- Again!

Advantages: Sharp and caustic British wit
Disadvantages: Not risky enough!

The media is at constant war with politicians, and vice versa, blurring the actual message the MPs and Minster's want to get across, 24 hour news and the World Wide Web meaning politicians need to employ just as many spin doctors and communications people ...

thedevilinme 08.09.2009 · Read full review
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Climbing the Mountain of Conflict

Advantages: Brilliant writing, spontaneous direction and excellent performances.
Disadvantages: The central conceit is perhaps outdated.

Both the American President and the British Prime Minister fancy a war, but not everyone is on their side. But when blundering British Secretary of State for International Development Simon Foster makes an unguarded comment seemingly backing the conflict, ...

afy9mab 11.06.2009 · Read full review
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Creative swearing

Advantages: Hilarious, great characters, Peter Capaldi and Paul Higgins
Disadvantages: Capaldi didn't have enough screen time

In The Loop was released earlier in 2009 as a spin off movie from the TV show The Thick Of It. Directed by Armando Ianucci and starring Peter Capaldi, Tom Hollander and Gina McKee among others, it follows the rather hapless Minister for International Deve ...

eilidhcatriona 12.09.2009 · Read full review
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Best British Comedy Film in Ten Years

Advantages: Brilliant writing and acting
Disadvantages: None really

In the Loop is a feature film, created by the team behind the BBC2 political satire 'The Thick of It', directed by Armando Ianucci and starring Peter Capaldi as the inestimable Malcolm Tucker, this is definitely the best British comedy in many years, but ...

paulie1975 09.11.2009 · Read full review
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