Growing up an avid telly addict in the 1980s was good fun. I was a full-on devotee of The A-Team and thought Knight Rider was just about the most wonderful thing in existence. The fact that these action-adventure shows, and others like them, were actually ludicrous nonsense took me far longer to clock than it should have done.
Mindhorn (cert 15, 89 mins,★★★) is in no doubt about the stupidity of these kinds of programmes. The film, co-written by and starring Julian Barratt (best known for his work in The Mighty Boosh), takes its title from a fictional series about a detective, Mindhorn, stationed on the Isle of Man, who is fitted with a bionic eye that allows him to “see the truth”.
