The Death Of Stalin

Now that the vaunted Clive James has shuffled off the proverbial, I suppose I ought to nominate a new incumbent for the post of my favourite living cultural commentator. Come on down .... Armando Iannucci.

Iannucci's The Death of Stalin is not for those of a delicate moral disposition. This is black comedy (very, very dark) about the death of, and subsequent rush to succeed, one of the twentieth century's great monsters - and let's face it, that century produced some considerable competition in the monster field. Bloody funny. 8/10.