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Review Sunflower Pictures / Charlie Chaplin - The Champion

Charlie Chaplin - The Champion (Sunflower Pictures)

Release date: 2008-02-12
RRP: ~~£2.99~~
Price: £0.29

Review Charlie Chaplin - The Champion / Sunflower Pictures:

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Review Granada Media / The Very Best Of The Royle Family [1998]

The Very Best Of The Royle Family [1998] (Granada Media)

Actors & Directors

Ralf Little
Craig Cash
Steve Benedelack
Caroline Aherne
Caroline Aherne
Mark Mylod
Ricky Tomlinson
Sue Johnston

Release date: 2002-11-25
Run time: 180 min.
RRP: ~~£15.99~~
Price: £2.75

Review The Very Best Of The Royle Family [1998] / Granada Media:

Spanning the three series of this superb sitcom, The Very Best of The Royle Family is a prime taster for those not familiar with the series. Co-created by Caroline Aherne and Craig Cash, who star as Denise and Dave respectively, The Royle Family deserves its own comedic category. They had a hard fight persuading the BBC to leave a laughter track off the show, which would have disrupted its unique ambience and chemistry. Never departing from the house of lazy, good-for-nothing but defiantly sardonic Jim Royle (Ricky Tomlinson) and wife Barbara (Sue Johnston), The Royle Family chronicles the everyday chat and banal comings and goings of this Northern household, which barely qualifies as "working" class, since mostly they are slumped on the sofa in front of the telly in a cathode-induced stupor. Confused viewers waiting for something to "happen" in the conventional sitcom manner will be disappointed. What they'll get instead is an irresistible stream of dialogue that captures unerringly the humdrum cadences of "ordinary" people. These episodes capture the Royles in customary, festive mood-Denise's marriage, Christmas, baby David's birthday party and so forth-which is good, as we get to see more of Liz Smith's magnificent Nana. As each seemingly inconsequential scene vividly illustrates, this is hardly a romanticised family. Denise is an appallingly negligent mother, there's probably never been a green vegetable in the house, most of their friends, including Darren, are well dodgy, and mum Barbara is unfairly put-upon ("Eh, I've been so busy this morning I haven't had time to smoke", she laments at one point). Yet undoubtedly, unlike their regal counterparts, this Royle Family are close-knit, somehow getting by. [+]

The family that watches telly together stays together. On the DVD: The Very Best of the Royle Family, disappointingly, has no extra features. -David Stubbs.

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