How on earth did news of this film creep under my radar? Michael Palin will star in Armando Iannucci’s forthcoming satire, The Death Of Stalin, out in October. Thus not only does it combine a historical subject which has long fascinated me with one of my all-time favourite actors, it’s by one of the greatest satirists around. It just puzzles me that I hadn’t heard anything about it until I thought I would check for news about Palin just now. Either way, this is a film I certainly look forward to watching now.