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Michael Winterbottom’s 1999 drama of working-class Londoners Bill (Jack Shepherd) and Eileen (Kika Markham) and their three lonely grown-up daughters is a typically intense, effective and gloomy tale. They are cafe waitress Nadia, (Gina McKee ) […]
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 […]
Elizabeth Olsen stars in this intense, well-acted film of Emile Zola’s 1867 tragic romance as the sexually repressed beautiful young tragic heroine Therese Raquin. Jessica Lange co-stars as her domineering aunt Madame Raquin, who traps into a loveless […]
Romance and violence are the main stands of director John Crowley’s intriguing 2003 patchwork of Irish life, which unravels as the lives of a bunch of losers intersect in Dublin. Colin Farrell stars as a petty […]
What’s this? Writer-director Mike Leigh, of Secrets & Lies fame, not making a film that’s full of biting social comment? Surely some mistake? But no. Leigh had long nurtured the idea of making a film about […]
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 […]
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