Coogan’s energy is astonishing, on stage more or less the whole time, save the (very) quick changes required to appear and reappear in four roles, he draws on every element of his comic heritage from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. He's closest to home as Captain Mandrake, an English air force man stationed in rural America: Coogan manipulates language like it ...

It must be hard to do superpower satire the day after a candidate for November’s presidential election is on television saying, unironically, “I’m the opposite of a Nazi”. For all my promises to ...

Yet theatre’s a fickle beast, and though this looks like a fantastic proposition – not least because Iannucci’s long-term collaborator Steve Coogan plays all four roles intended for Peter Sellers in ...

During the late 1950s and early 1960s, concern over nuclear annihilation peaked with mass membership organisations like the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) leading thousands on protest marches.

It might be difficult to find the funny in nuclear war. But Stanley Kubrick did, and now, his deeply satirical 1964 classic has been named the greatest dark comedy of all time. Earlier this ...

We all have movies we somehow never got around to watching. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro had never seen Dr. Strangelove. She and NPR's Scott Simon... Classic Movie Review: 'Dr. Strangelove' SCOTT SIMON, ...

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To Americans who still felt like they were the good guys after swaggering to the rescue in the Second World War, Dr Strangelove must have felt like a brutal kick in the nuts. The portrait painted in ...