Check out all of the posts tagged with "Paddy Considine".
Smart but sickly romance, with Dakota Fanning as Tessa Scott, a girl with leukaemia who compiles a list of things she’d like to do before dying, including losing her virginity. Fortunately, along comes that handy […]
A warm-hearted romantic comedy drama about a woman dying of cancer? Well that’s a bit of a hard sell. There are plenty of laughs in the film, sometimes polished ones, sometimes crudely constructed ones, but overall […]
Steve Coogan impresses as Tony Wilson, the real-life pop producer behind bands, including Joy Division, New Order, the Happy Mondays and Manic Street Preachers. Director Michael Winterbottom’s 2002 film presents an edgy, graphic view of […]
Pride is a sweet, funny and vital film, successfully making a popular comedy drama entertainment out of a deadly serious subject as British gay activists work to help the miners during their lengthy strike in the summer of […]
Director Jim Sheridan’s 2002 Irish movie about of his early struggles in America is sometimes strained but most often a real, enchanting heart-warmer. There’s quirky charm aplenty in this tale of an Irish actor Johnny (Paddy Considine) […]
Co-writer-director Shane Meadows’s 1998 film reunites him with co-writer Paul Fraser and cinematographer Ashley Rowe, after their success with 1997’s boxing club movie Twenty Four Seven. The friendship of 12-year-old best mates Romeo Brass and […]
Back in 2007, we held our breath. Could they do it a third time? Or were they going to fall at the final hurdle? That’s a resounding yes and no. In the 2007 film The […]