Michael Palin

For a film centred around the untimely demise of one of history’s most notorious dictators, Armando Iannucci’s The Death of Stalin does a surprisingly good job of presenting the violence-ridden power struggle as something of a Shakespearean farce. The story itself is a simple one: a leader dies suddenly,...

“I can make things happen, all I have to do is wave my hand”. Absolutely Anything is an upcoming sci-fi comedy about a group of extra-terrestrials, played by the Monty Python crew, who plan on destroying the Earth unless one human being can use absolute power for good. But who will they choose?...