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So aggressively precisely what you think it is that there’s almost no point in seeing it. Flattens a true story into generic pap that isn’t even that successfully, authentically feel-good, either.
A remarkable and unlikely sort of love story, and another triumph from Michael Winterbottom…
This harrowing television drama, from the U.K.’s Channel 4, is a provocative look at the state of the modern Middle East that will shock as many people as it will enthrall, merely by dint of its reasoned, unhysterical look at Israel and its treatment of the Palestinians…
I’m not saying there isn’t idiotic shit on British TV. It just doesn’t dominate like it does in America.
Later this month, the U.K.’s Channel 4 will air a ‘dramatized documentary’ about a fictional kidnapping of Prince Harry by the Taliban in Afghanistan. Can this film have any purpose beyond lurid sensationalism? And if that’s the only purpose it serves, is that okay?
All I can think about is M. Night Shyamalan’s risible The Happening, and poor Alan Ruck having to deliver one of the most awful lines of dialogue in the history of movies: ‘There appears to be an event occurring.’
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