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Riff-Raff **** (1991, Robert Carlyle, Emer McCourt, Jimmy R Coleman, Garrie J Lammin, Ricky Tomlinson) – Classic Movie Review 5011
Director Ken Loach’s prize-laden British comedy stars the then fresh newcomer Robert Carlyle as Stevie, a young Glasgow ex-con who gets a job as a construction worker on a London building site. There he has […]
We Are Many ***½ (2015, Mark Rylance, Danny Glover, Ken Loach, Damon Albarn, Ron Kovic, Tony Benn, John Le Carré) – Movie Review
Writer-director Amir Amirani’s important and stirring documentary focuses on the biggest demonstration in history, which took place on 15 February 2003, against the impending war on Iraq. The global protest proved a pivotal moment in recent […]
Poor Cow ***** (1967, Carol White, Terence Stamp, John Bindon, Kate Williams, Queenie Watts) – Classic Movie Review 2268
Co-writer/director Ken Loach makes his ground-breaking and eye-catching feature movie début filming Nell Dunn’s novel in 1967. Restored and re-released in 2016, it comes up devastatingly fresh – incisive, poignant and funny too. Carol White triumphs […]
Carla’s Song *** (1996, Robert Carlyle, Oyanka Cabezas, Scott Glenn) – Classic Movie Review 1849
Robert Carlyle brings all his charisma to director Ken Loach’s tricky 1996 tale of Glasgow bus driver George Lennox who in 1987 woos a Nicaraguan refugee (Oyanka Cabezas) and goes to her country to find […]
Kes ***** (1969, David Bradley, Lynne Perrie, Colin Welland, Brian Glover) – Classic Movie Review 1481
Director Ken Loach’s 1969 film is his masterpiece, a superb British humanist, realist film. It is a bleak, despairing but not negative experience and it is lit up with a heartrending performance by the young David […]
Jimmy’s Hall *** (2014, dir Ken Loach) – Movie Review
Barry Ward stars as real-life Irish communist political activist Jimmy Gralton, who is deported from Ireland during the country’s ‘Red Scare’ of the 1930s. Ward is excellent but Jim Norton is even better as his nemesis, Father Sheridan, […]
Sweet Sixteen **** (2002, Martin Compston, Michelle Coulter, Annmarie Fulton, William Ruane) – Classic Movie Review 949
Martin Compston is superb in his debut as Liam, a Scottish teenager from a tough background who sets out to raise the money for a home once his mother Jean (Michelle Coulter) gets out of […]
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