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The Unmissables
Man Like
Mobeen
BBC3, Sunday 26
January, from 6am
ritten and created by Guz 3
Khan and Andy Milligan
W(who writes Ant & Dec’s
material, including those amazing
links in I’m A Celeb…), this is the
very welcome third series of the
excellent comedy in which Khan
plays Birmingham resident Mobeen
as he gets into scrapes with his
best buddies Eight (Tez Ilyas)
and Nate (Tolu Ogunmefun),
while trying to make sure his sister
Who the
(Duaa Karim) does good things. man?
★★★★ Boyd Hilton
4 The Personal
History Of David
Copperfield
Cert PG, 119 minutes, #87
in cinemas 24 January
Starring: Dev Patel, Peter Capaldi,
Tilda Swinton, Hugh Laurie
Director: Armando Iannucci
THE PLOT Southern England, the
mid-19th century. Young David
Copperfield (Patel) suffers mixed
fortunes – including a spell living with
his donkey-obsessed great-aunt
(Swinton), a stint at boarding school,
and various encounters with a serially
impecunious debtor (Capaldi).
WHAT’S RIGHT WITH IT? Armando
Iannucci (The Death Of Stalin)
brings a playful approach to the
1850 Charles Dickens doorstopper,
which extends to colour-blind
casting throughout the film.
WHAT’S WRONG WITH IT?
Fans of traditional Dickens
adaptations should look elsewhere.
VERDICT Skilfully compressing the
book’s meandering storyline, while
also fully exploiting the text’s comic
potential, Iannucci delivers a lively,
fresh-feeling Dickens. And Patel once
“I wish I was more again provides a vital asset – nobody
like Mobeen” does hapless quite so endearingly.
★★★★ Charles Gant
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