Film review: ONE CHANCE, from Built For Speed

Nick’s rating: *** ½ Genre: Drama/ Biography/Comedy Classification: PG. Director(s): David Frankel. Release date: 5th Dec 2013. Running time: 103 mins. Who could forget the iconic viral video of Welsh opera singer Paul Potts nervously shuffling up to the microphone on Britain’s Got Talent his doleful form eliciting derisive giggles from audience and judges alike.  Seconds later as Paul launched

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Film review: ALAN PARTRIDGE – ALPHA PAPA, from Built For Speed

Before the magnificent cringe comedy of Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm and Ricky Gervais’ The Office was Steve Coogan’s Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge a TV talk show parody in which the eponymous host was as contemptible and hilarious as Larry David or Gervais’ David Brent.  The superbly vain, egotistical, spineless and conniving Partridge later appeared in radio

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