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Two decades on from Trainspotting (1996), the 46-year-old Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) returns from a new life in Amsterdam to the one place he can call home, Edinburgh, where he is reunited with Spud (Ewen Bremner), […]
Beating 180,000 applicants, the 18-year-old Ed Speleers left Eastbourne College in June 2006 before completing his A-levels to take the title role of Erago in this robust and entertaining 2006 big-screen version of the popular novel by Christopher […]
This easy-going junior-league British footie comedy comes from director John Hay in 2000, complete with a well-meaning, too-cosy, simple story, and laid-back, appealing performances. Lewis McKenzie plays shy, bullied Manchester schoolboy Jimmy Grimble who would […]
In his directing debut, Robert Carlyle is struggling both as actor and director as Barney Thomson, a boring Glasgow barber who reluctantly finds he becomes a serial killer. Carlyle’s odd mix of kindly and terrifying gets a thorough […]
Director Alan Parker keeps the faith in 1999 with author Frank McCourt’s book about his childhood in famine-stricken Ireland in this depressingly downbeat but wonderfully meticulous movie. Young Frankie McCourt (played at various ages by […]
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 […]
With the best will in the world, writer-director Bill Forsyth’s 1994 offbeat epic fantasy comedy drama just can’t be judged an unqualified success, though it’s a highly ambitious and intelligent project. Robin Williams teams with the Scottish director […]