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Chicago (2002)
Best film of stage musical since Cabaret.
Hours later and I'm still humming. It isn't just the songs rattling round in my head...my whole body seems to be humming. Sexy, sassy, strident, this scintillating movie grabs you by the throat in the first minute and never lets go. It's funny, the songs are out of this world and delivered with panache by Zellweger, Zeta-Jones and Gere. The movie put all of us on a wonderful high...strongly recommended.
Two Men Went to War (2002)
Unexpected British comic delight
What an unexpected delight is this true-ish wartime tale of two army dentists determined to do something for the war effort. A grizzled WW1 Sergeant and callow private go AWOL, heading for Cornwall and then to France armed with a rucksack of grenades, a couple of pistols and the odd dental tool. Possessing a comic lightness of touch rarely seen in Britain since the halcyon days of the Ealing comedies, this wonderful tale of British eccentricity is hilariously funny mainly because it never goes for the obvious laugh. Realisitic enough that the adventure is frequently nerve-wracking, with a splendid plot that constantly wrongfoots your guesses, the mismatched comic pair of Kenneth Cranham and Leo Bill work brilliantly. Filmed in vibrant colours so rarely seen in a British film, the movie succeeds way beyond its modest ambitions. It's the rare sort of film that banishes the blues and puts you in a good mood that lasts for ages afterwards. What more can you ask from a film than that?