Movie Review: Fackham Hall

 Movie Number: 10 of 2026

The Movie: Fackham Hall

The Cinema: Hoyts Victoria Gardens

Runtime: One hour 37 minutes. 

Stars: 3.75

This is a very, very silly film. Silly and ridiculous and very funny. Spit take funny. Rude funny. Death at a Funeral funny, though a little bit more sly and vulgar - but that's a good thing. From the sign outside Fackham Hall which reads "Incestus Ad Infinitum" (Incest forever) to some more subtle digs at the nobility, to some Monty Pythonesque absurdity, this has it all. This is a cross between Downton Abbey, Agatha Christie and Monty Python. This means it's utter lunacy. Also, it's been written by comedian Jimmy Carr - who's very silly at the best of times. 

As a quick description, Lord Humphrey Davenport (Damian Lewis) and his wife (Katherine Waterstone) are keen to marry off their daughters to one of their cousins, the rather odious Archibald (Tom Felton). Rose (Thomasin McKenzie) sees through her father's plan after her sister Lily (Emma Laird) jilts him at the altar. 

Enter Eric Noone (pronounced No-one... yeah) (Ben Radcliffe) a pickpocket raised in an orphanage asked to deliver a letter in person to Lord Davenport. Eric ends up taking a job as a footman at Fackham Hall, where he becomes close to Lady Rose. Anna Maxwell Martin is rather scary as the housekeeper, Mrs McCallister and Tim McMullen is a very effective as the butler, Cyril. Oh yes, and we can't forget Jimmy Carr's turn as the 

After a few mis-steps getting their daughters married off to their first cousin (because that's what the aristocracy dones.), Lord Davenport ends up dead. What fun. 

As I said at the start, this is a very silly movie with a very blue, dark, quite wrong sense of humour running through it. I tittered through the whole film, with some big laugh out loud guffaws.     

I won't say much more. If you like English comedies, the sillier, ruder and blacker the better, this will keep you happy. It's not a perfect film, but it's great fun. It's also rather wrong in a lot of great ways. 

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