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Knights of God (1987)
I loved this but no-one remembers it
It's typical that as I write this it has yet to receive 5 votes, despite being 16 years old. I watched it on British TV when I was 11, and I was totally hooked. Maybe being Welsh helped, maybe being into that other great british SF series Doctor Who helped, but I thought this was a superior slice of homegrown SF with a startling twist at the end. This is a serial in which the hero spends much of its running time brainwashed by the dictator! It's hard to imagine something this brave ever being commissioned as, essentially, a kids' show. Like most great kids' shows, it was far more than just a kids' show. Release it on DVD now!
Nobody Someday (2002)
What exactly were you expecting?
This is just a Robbie Williams documentary, so anyone expecting classic cinema is frankly wasting their time here. As a documentary, it's not even that worthwhile - you don't learn much new about Robbie, and the film-makers never pry too hard into anything. (Robbie Williams, in case you've managed to sidestep all this, is a UK pop singer who graduated from sub-Backstreet Boys teen band Take That to become the most famous man in Britain). What's worthwhile about it is that Robbie - whatever you may think of his music and however much I didn't really like him beforehand - wins you over, and comes across as a likeable man. He isn't, of course, but it means you get through the film. Best thing about it is the Spinal Tap moments - when the stage show goes so awry that someone actually has to namecheck Tap, when someone runs onstage and chucks Robbie off the stage, and a classic (if probably staged) scene between Robbie and his manager regarding how high the tabel is and where the chairs should be. It's harmless and passes the time, so good for Rob. And it's nothing to do with that bloke out of Patch Adams and The Birdcage.