In the Loop (15)

Spot-on political satire, this is both insanely funny and a desperate cry for sanity

Director: Armando Iannucci
Starring: James Gandolfini, Tom Hollander, Peter Capaldi, Gina McKee
UK, 2009, 1 hour 46 minutes

Fri 26 February 7.30pm Cardington Village Hall
Sat 27 February 7.30pm Aston on Clun Village Hall
Sat 6 March 7.30pm Hereford WRVS Hall
Thur 11 March 8.00pm Michaelchurch Escley Escleyside Hall
Fri 12 March 7.30pm Dorstone Village Hall

A fantastic cast, a tremendous script and an all too realistic story makes for a fast and furious farce. This glorious sideswipe at international diplomacy sparkles with the same filthy humour, spoken by the same morally empty vessels that marked the inpired TV series The Thick of It. In the build up to a war in the Middle East that nobody wants, it follows the actions of an incompetent British minister, a pawn in the games played by a foul-mouthed Scottish spin doctor (the brilliant Peter Capaldi) and a Pentagon general (James 'Tony Soprano' Gandolfini). Spot-on political satire shot in documentary style, this is both insanely funny and a desperate cry for sanity, like Spinal Tap meets Dr Strangelove.