Dennis Nielson transplanted to an ultra miserabalist Hackney council estate hardly sounds like riveting entertainment, but Gerard Johnson’s deconstructionalist take on everyday serial killing manages to dig some very black laughs out of the grim setting..
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Harry Brown
0 CommentsNovember 10, 2009 – 1:17 am
Over the years Sir Maurice Micklewhite has been is some right old guff. For every moment of quiet gravitas as Alfred The Butler there’s a ‘Shadow Run’ waiting to quietly derail things.
Even back in the good old days you couldn’t trust him not to slip into a dress and beggar belief fighting killer Bees – frankly, the man’s long been a danger to his own career, so it’s a tribute to his charisma that he remains such an enduring screen icon – and in Daniel Barber’s Sarth Lahndahn violence-fest, we’re reminded exactly why.
