Jason Isaacs

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  • The Death Of Stalin

    Movie Review | Ed Williamson | 23rd October 2017

    By now the central premise of Armando Iannucci's recent satirical output is clear enough, or has maybe just about been done to death: in politics, everyone's a chancer, making it up on the fly and looking out for number one. In The Death of Stalin there's an extra layer of irony, too: under Communism, there isn't supposed to be a number one to look out for. It's kind of the point.

  • Fury

    Movie Review | Ali Gray | 17th October 2014

    War movies. Huh. Good God. What are they good for? By now, it feels like every manoeuvre, every landing and every battle of the Second World War has been fought and won or lost on screen. Subsequently, each new WWII movie has to prove its worth before a single shell has been fired or bomb dropped. David Ayer's Fury doesn't even bother pretending it's based on a true story, jumping straight into action with an ambush, a dead Nazi and a knife through the eye socket - and it gets progressively more grim from then on in.

  • Awake: file under "mental, but might just work"

    TV Video | Ed Williamson | 23rd February 2012

    Folk commit crimes, cops solve them: it's why TV was invented. Do it underwater, on the moon or with a bucket on the cop's head, it's still the same thing. OK then, how about a cop who leads two lives simultaneously and solves crimes in both of them? SOLD. (*writes out multi-million dollar cheque and orders 24 episodes*)