Tag: Michael Winterbottom

Film review: ‘THE TRIP TO GREECE’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

The Trip to Greece is the fourth and purportedly last instalment in director Michael Winterbottom’s serio-comic travelogues starring Steve Coogan (best known as fictitious, cringe-inducing TV host Alan Partridge) and comic actor and quiz show host Rob Brydon. While adopting a slightly different approach to the three previous films, Trip to Greece won’t disappoint the series’ devotees. As fans of

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Film review: THE TRIP TO ITALY, from Built For Speed

The Trip was one of recent cinema and television’s comic highlights. Beginning as a TV show it featured comedians Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon playing themselves in a semi-fictionalised scenario as they toured England’s Lake District sampling its food and culture.  The TV series and its compressed cinema version mixed foodie lifestyle show with the two leads’ wonderfully acerbic but

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