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Posts Tagged "Shane Meadows"

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Somers Town **** (2008, Thomas Turgoose, Piotr Jagiello, Elisa Lasowski) – Classic Movie Review 539

For this 2008 heart-warming comedy drama, director Shane Meadows again casts his young star from This Is England, Thomas Turgoose. This time he’s playing a cocky Nottingham teenage runaway, Tomo, who finds himself alone and homeless in London. […]

Dec, 16

Once Upon a Time in the Midlands *** (2002, Robert Carlyle, Rhys Ifans, Kathy Burke, Shirley Henderson, Ricky Tomlinson ) – Classic Movie Review 482

Robert Carlyle stars in Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (2002) as Jimmy, a Glasgow-based small-time crook who heads back for his Nottingham home town to try to win back his ex-girlfriend Shirley (Shirley […]

Dec, 07

A Room for Romeo Brass **** (1998, Andrew Shim, Ben Marshall, Paddy Considine, Vicky McClure, Frank Harper, Julia Ford, James Higgins, Ladene Hall, Bob Hoskins, Shane Meadows) – Classic Film Review 481

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 […]

Dec, 07

Twenty Four Seven ***½ (1997, Bob Hoskins, Danny Nussbaum) – Classic Film Review 479

Bob Hoskins enjoys himself enormously in a tailor-made role as Alan Darcy, an inspired visionary who sets up a boxing club for a bleak English Midlands town’s dissolute youth. His diaries chart the lads’ comic […]

Dec, 07

The Stone Roses: Made of Stone – Film Review

In 2012, film director Shane Meadows (This Is England) is called up by Stone Roses singer Ian Brown to tell him his favourite band are getting back together. He says: ‘I hope you’re going to […]

Jun, 05

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