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Watch the glo­ri­ous­ly sil­ly first trail­er for Mindhorn

16 Mar 2017

Words by John Wadsworth

Julian Bar­ratt plays a washed-up TV actor in this bril­liant new comedy.

In the 10 years since The Mighty Boosh’s tele­vi­sion run end­ed, Julian Bar­ratt has fea­tured in an assort­ment of projects, from Ben Wheatley’s A Field in Eng­land and Steve Oram’s Aaaaaaaah!, to stage works by Chekhov and Gogol. Yet, despite Barratt’s evi­dent ver­sa­til­i­ty, his Boosh role as man of action” Howard Moon has proven dif­fi­cult to shake.

Now, with Mind­horn, he has a new on-screen hero to be remem­bered by: Richard Thorn­croft, a bald­ing, bloat­ed, washed-up TV actor who longs to relive his hey­day as the pro­tag­o­nist of a hit 80s detec­tive show.

When a killer ter­ror­is­ing the Isle of Man demands to speak to Bruce Mind­horn, unaware that he is a fic­tion­al char­ac­ter, Thorn­croft sees an oppor­tu­ni­ty to return to the limelight.

A trail­er for Mind­horn has just been released, and it has remind­ed us of why we loved the film first time around: the one-lin­ers, the glo­ri­ous 80s pas­tich­es, the bion­ic eye­patch, Mindhorn’s abil­i­ty to lit­er­al­ly see truth” – it’s all in there.

The British-led cast includes Andrea Rise­bor­ough as a local cop inves­ti­gat­ing the case, Simon Farn­a­by (who also co-wrote the script) as an inex­plic­a­bly shirt­less Dutch stunt­man, and Steve Coogan as the suc­cess­ful star of a long-run­ning Mind­horn spin-off.

If this trail­er leaves you crav­ing more Mind­horn good­ness, be sure to pick up a copy of our lat­est print edi­tion.

Two illustrated book covers depicting a smiling Black man wearing a hat and tie, with a city skyline in the background

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