Brian and Charles [DVD]

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He's also brave, standing up to those who bully others, and demonstrates humility, perseverance, and ingenuity. David Geoffrey Earl is a British actor and comedian, best known for his comedy character Brian Gittins.

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The world I get excited about is the one where a dinosaur might run out in front of your car on a foggy backroad, or invade your campground looking for food," the film's director, Colin Trevorrow, told fan site Jurassic Outpost.

Brian (David Earl) never gives up, and when things don't go his way -- which is the majority of the time -- he's always able to pick himself up and try again. When we made the short film version in 2017, I remember saying: “Well, that’ll get 200 views on YouTube. Not a typical science-fiction movie, Brian and Charles is a low-budget, low-key British comedy starring and co-written by David Earl, a regular in Ricky Gervais's sitcoms. It's like an Edgar Wright/Mighty Boosh project thrown into a cotton-candy machine, but also one of the most surprising films about being a parent, even when your son is a 7ft-tall robot who loves cabbages.

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Or I've seen people who have autism played by people without autism and it's frustrating in the sense that I know society is becoming aware of those things now, and there are exceptions to the rule, but continuing to learn is what I'm all for. When After Life [Ricky Gervais’s Netflix series, in which Earl appears] came out, I sensed a little change, but I can still lie pretty low. Charles is a fascinating figure, the laughs coming from the tiny head on the giant body and the robotic voice with its sing-song falling-tone mannerisms, nicked from Stephen Hawking. An outspoken Covid-denier and anti-masker, she flies to London to escape US restrictions and ends up giving an old woman (Angela Enahoro) a lift through the countryside in a friend's car.That's why we've added a new "Diverse Representations" section to our reviews that will be rolling out on an ongoing basis. Mari said: "With Brian and Charles, it's just one of those things that sort of came out of the blue when we thought it would be this small little indie thing and it's just snowballed into something that is really treasured by a lot of people and I don't think any of us were expecting anything to come of it. For me, it was important to have that solid feel of the models and motion-control spaceships of movies of that era.