Atonement: review

Atonement: your run-off-the-mill BBC period costume drama until Vanessa Redgrave descends from the Parnassus or wherever actors of her calibre dwell and with but a few minutes of monologue yanks the whole pretty but trite shebang to the Oscar and BAFTA wow-heights.

TV is a Hitler in your living room

Except it's not just "state" sponsored propaganda. That's vulgar Marxism. There are more players in the filed vying for your brain synapses.