24 Hour Party People

10/14/2026

I actually met Tony Wilson a few times and found him to be an immensely charismatic and somewhat contradictorily erudite vulgarian who wasn't short of vision either. Sadly the effort here from Steve Coogan, that I felt bordered on mimicry, reminded me more of Jimmy Savile that it did TW and so from fairly early on I found myself a little detached from this otherwise quite entertaining narrative. Luckily, once we have established his credentials as a teatime news fallguy, we progress quite quickly to focus more on the formation of bands like "Joy Division" and that gives us an opportunity to appreciate other convincingly characterful contributions from Sean Harris as their almost robotic and troubled front man Ian Curtis and from Andy Serkis who's effort as the enigmatic producer Martin Han