Confessions of a Liberal Puritan

Just a quick note to say that I finally got to see "The Damned United" yesterday afternoon, starring Michael Sheen (sporting a few more pounds than when he was playing 'Lucian the Luscious Lycan' in the "Underworld" prequel back in January of this year, but still cute as a button, bless him!) as football/soccer manager Brian Clough.

"And RevD saw that it was good."

Honestly, I've never voluntarily watched any soccer, except in the context of a key movie moment (in "Bend It Like Beckham", for example) and I'd never heard of Brian Clough before I saw Michael Sheen promoting the film on "Friday Night with Jonathan Ross" a couple of months ago, but you don't actually NEED to know anything about the game or the history of these teams and personalities: the film gives you everything you need in order to get the HUMAN drama of it all, right there on the screen. ( no spoilers )

See this film if you get the chance, even if -- like me -- you've never heard of most of these people and don't actually follow the sport at all. All you need to know is it's a film about complicated, interesting, very entertaining characters, well-played by highly talented actors.