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THE COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED AND THE WINNERS WILL BE NOTIFIED IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS AND WILL RECEIVE THEIR BRAND NEW, AND FREE, SHINY DISCS SOON AFTER...
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Here are the answers to our 5 Questions....
1) Complete the following quotation from what is arguably the greatest politcal satire and anti-war polemic in cinema history: "Gentlemen, please! There's no fighting in the...WAR ROOM". Of course from the greatest anti-war satire ever made, Dr Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb!
2) In one name, connect Sir Humphrey Appleby and King George III. Nigel Hawthorne
3) The Mike Nichols' film, Primary Colors, starring John Travolta and Emma Thompson was based on a book published by an author under which name? Anonymous (later to be revealed as journalist Joe Klein)
4) The war that features in Barry Levinson's Wag the Dog is unusual for what reason and what is the significance of Dustin Hoffman's character? The war is fabricated to cover up a presidential scandal and Hoffman is a Hollywood producer who is drafted in to 'produce' the fictitious war.
5) Prior to rehearsals the scripts for The Thick of It are sent to a professional Swearing Consultant who adds his own unique magic to the material: True or False? Very F**king True, the Consultant's name is Ian Martin.
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In the Loop - Cert. 15
Starring: James Gandolfini, Tom Hollander, Peter Capaldi, Gina McKee, Anna Chlumsky, Steve Coogan, Chris Addison, Mimi Kennedy, Chizzy Akudolu
Britain and America; friends and allies as far back as anyone can remember. Both the US President and UK Prime Minister fancy a war but not everyone agrees including US Assistant Secretary for Diplomacy, US Army General (Gandolfini) and a floundering British Minister Simon Foster (Hollander).
When Foster accidentally announces on national TV that ‘war is unforeseeable,' the British government is sent into a spiral of chaos and spin propagated by verbosely aggressive Director of Communications, Malcolm Tucker (Capaldi).
Foster attempts to neutralise his ‘unforeseeable' comment by telling the British public to prepare to ‘climb the mountain of conflict' but soon finds himself bundled off to Washington on a fact-finder where he becomes both a pawn for the secret war committee and a poster-boy for the General and the Assistant Secretary for Diplomacy's anti-war campaign.
From Armando Iannucci, the comic-genius behind The Day Today, I'm Alan Partridge and the BAFTA award-winning The Thick Of It comes a hilarious and biting satire on British-US relations and the lunacy of War.
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