![]() Unfortunately, things don’t go as planned, with the band embarrassed of David and ashamed to stand next to him up on stage, especially Dom (Doc Brown), a wannabe rapper who’s hoping to get noticed. Putting together nearly every cent he has, David books for the band to go on tour, despite really only travelling around a very small area. He puts together Foregone Conclusion, a band of which he is the lead singer. Unfortunately, he doesn’t really fit in, and so David decides to finally follow his dreams of being a rock star. From there, David went into a downwards spiral, as we find out in this movie, but he soon bounced back to the man he once was, now working in a new office for a sales company. The character has appeared in a number of TV specials, promotions and short films over the years, but now, 15 years after the show’s beginnings, David Brent is officially back in business with his very own movie, DAVID BRENT: LIFE ON THE ROAD.įor those who haven’t seen THE OFFICE, or perhaps those who need a bit of a refresher, David Brent was the man in charge, but as the show came to a conclusion, David was fired. While many of the characters in that show were fan favourites, there’s one that stood out the most, and that’s David Brent (Ricky Gervais). In 2001, up and coming talents Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant started a television show called THE OFFICE. It was a documentary styled comedy that revolved around a small handful of workers, and it was a hit. Enjoy Kernel Jack’s thoughts on the movie…….all the best……JK. It’s out now from the fine folks at Entertainment One, it is rated MA15+ and runs for 96mins. Kernel Jack on the other hand has seen them and appreciates the comedy quite a bit more, so he was the most appropriate to review DAVID BRENT: LIFE ON THE ROAD. I love Ricky Gervais however and really must find the time to see his crazy office manager at work. For some reason I am rarely drawn to comedy on television. ![]() It may be surprising to know that I have never see an episode of THE OFFICE. Fifteen years in the making we finally have a David Brent movie. Its portrait of snipers Lee Malvo and John Muhammed is intimate. Inspired by the 2002 Beltway sniper attacks that spread fear throughout a jumpy post-9/11 United States, Blue Caprice is less about a documenting the events as much as understanding the psyches of the killers. (Rated R for disturbing violent content, language and brief drug use) The movie is an intellectual rather than visceral treatment of evil, but affecting nonetheless. ![]() The film, which incorporates actual footage from the trial, explores the origins of Arendt's now-famous concept of the "banality of evil," the notion that Holocaust perpetrators like Eichmann were not monsters but simply bureaucrats thoughtlessly following orders. This biopic of philosopher Hannah Arendt focuses on her controversial New Yorker reporting on the 1961 trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann. We hope you'll find something to love.įilms that in some way wrestled with the reality of evil in a manner that went beyond simply villainy or horror tropes. These aren't necessarily the year's best films, nor even the best movies these critics saw all year-just a sampling of the riches of 2013. Here at CT Movies, knowing that every critic and every movie lover brings different tastes, interests, and perspectives to the table, we've decided to take a different approach.Įach of our regular critics came up with a list of "best" films in categories of their own choosing, and we'll be running them over the next week. For movie lovers and movie critics, the end of the year brings an avalanche of "best of" lists to analyze, pick apart, and argue over.
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