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Yet, sadly, like Partridge's own broadcast career, Alpha Papa is a movie which never quite reaches the heights it should have leaving a feeling of "what could have been". The film, like the outcome for Partridge at it's conclusion, represents only a modest triumph.

10 _0%

The Age of Stupid (2009) - Rated 13 Aug 2013

In short The Age of Stupid is a film which fails to show any emotional or political intelligence. It's dumb, it's pandering and, overall, archly pointless. Rather than preaching to the converted, Posselthwaite spends most of the movie shouting over their heads to the idiots who don't deserve to hear him. It's a peculiar approach and, if this film is trying to save the world, a stupid one.

10 _0%

Admission (2013) - Rated 13 Aug 2013

Admission stars whom I can only assume to be impostors of Tina Fey and Paul Rudd - usually two of the most likable and handsome stars in Hollywood, the script reduces it's avatars to empty shell like ghosts who appear dead behind the eyes, perhaps drained of their humanity by a comedy in which the biggest joke is the delivery of a calf in an elongated, stone cold serious sequence. Imagine Vera Drake with pratfalls.

80 _75%

A Hijacking (2012) - Rated 13 Aug 2013

In a feature in which numbers and figures are more important than people, and impressions more important than the lives of others, A Hijacking exposes how capitalism can de-humanise people (as groups who are victims) and as individuals afraid to rebel against greed; as tense as the feature was during its running time, its this lasting message which makes me truly anxious.