Review: Sideshow

(© Media Luna New Films) Watching Sideshow, which is having its World Premiere in the Midnight Section of the Cairo International Film Festival, feels a bit like finding a message in a bottle washed up on a beach: Adam Oldroyd’s feature debut has the look and feel of a relic from the bygone age of 1970s British television. A blackly comic thriller centred on a laughably inept robbery attempt on a washed-up psychic, the film has a deliberately retro aesthetic. (The article continues below - Commercial information) Sideshow stars the well-known but slightly unfashionable British television personality and comic Les Dennis, who presented the UK version of the quiz show Family Fortunes for 15 years, until 2002. Dennis isn't without acting chops, and in recent years has populated enormous long-running West End shows such as