Michael Smiley is the toll operator facing up to his murky past in this fusion of western and black comedy
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Father Ted meets the old west in this entertaining black
comedy set in rural Pembrokeshire – “where English people come to die”, according to graffiti on a road sign into the county. It features a couple of familiar faces from Ben Wheatley’s films and goes for that same streak of weirdy wrongness, though without perhaps without such deliciously deadpan darkness.
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