Mindhorn (Sean Foley, 2016)

Julian Barratt plays a washed-up actor only known these days, if at all, for a detective show from the 1980s set on the Isle of Wight. He thinks a resurrection of his career is on the cards when the police ask him to talk to an obsessive fan who thinks his character was real about missing women.
But this is British low-budget satirical comedy in the Alan Partridge mould (Steve Coogan even plays a prominent part in it to underline the obvious similarity), so we know the character will basically remain a sadsack. It's not as sharp as Partridge or, say, the short-lived Channel 4 horror spoof series Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, partly because pastiches of detective shows or crap actors have pretty much been done to death, but there are some jolly moments along the way all the same.

6/10