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Featuring a big screen and surroundsound, we are paid up members of the British Federation of Film Societies, and their sub-group Yorkshire Film Societies have been fantastically helpful in helping us get off the ground.
IN THE LOOP Friday 12 March 2010 Armando Ianucci has turned his satirical series BBC2's 'The Thick of It' into a film that sparkles with the same filthy humour. 'The Thick of It' is given a filmic spin by unfolding a story on either side of the Atlantic and guessing what may happen behind closed doors in Whitehall and Washington DC in the lead up to a contentious conflict in the Middle East. Peter Capaldi returns as the Prime Ministerial attack dog Malcolm Tucker - think Alastair Campbell with rabies - and Chris Addison is again an ineffective Whitehall flunky whose lacks of scruples extend to blaming infidelity on his peacenik tendencies. Tom Hollander plays a fall guy for the conspiracies and gags of others, he's the vaguely idealistic but vain Secretary of State for International Development who becomes a pawn for hawks and doves on either side of the pond when he accidentally supports and then denounces war in two disastrous media appearances. In Washington, James Gandolfini offers one of the film's few moral centres as an army general against conflict because he's been there and knows it's horrific. It's a film that is both insanely funny and a desperate cry for sanity. (Rating 15, 106 minutes) If you are offended by bad language, don't come and see this film - it's very sweary!
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