Dave’s On Film Goes Postal

Hi there, welcome back to the show. The sad news is that the author behind the book series from which today's movie was drawn, Terry Pratchett, died recently from a rare form of Alzheimer's (you can read the story here) leaving behind a vast and fully realized shelf of literature at once gut bustingly funny and yet bracingly deep in it's love of (and puzzlement at) the foibles of humanity.

All within novels involving myths and fantasy tropes turned upside down and placed within the work-a-day society of The Discworld.  I was a big fan of all his writing and I find the end of any further trips to Pratchett Land deeply distressing. He was Twain and Wodehouse and a far more deeply humanistic and less nastily cynical Python all in one. I cannot tell you how much he will be missed.

In addition to the books, Sky TV issued three mini-series derived from the Discworld series over the last decade and today we are looking at the fastest, funniest and most well realized of the trio, a fun trip to The Discworld called Going Postal. If you've never visited the work of Terry P. before, this is a darn fine place to start.

Thanks for the visit. Please to enjoy this edition of Dave's On Film.

P.S: Our good buddy Tan runs the new Cinderella through his own movie reviewing apparatus. Have a gander at the results here with Tan Tests Kenneth Branagh's Cinderella!