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Director Michael Winterbottom’s 1995 character and issue driven drama Go Now is dour and downbeat but appealing and very conscientiously written and most credibly performed. Robert Carlyle stars as young Scots builder and footie player Nick […]
Director Alan Clarke’s 1989 BBC film The Firm stars Gary Oldman, who sizzles in this unsettling, violent TV movie as Bex Bissell, the psychotic leader of a London firm of soccer hooligans. He is 30, […]
Director Norman Cohen’s 1968 hit comedy is the first spinoff from the hit BBC TV show Till Death Us Do Part. Regular writer Johnny Speight’s original story and screenplay show how the famous London East […]
Written by Mike Jefferies, Adrian Butchart, Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, director Danny Cannon’s soapy 2005 sports drama is total hokum but still shrewdly calculated and entertaining. Looking like a cross between the young Antonio […]
The world’s most famous diamond has been snatched from the finger of a murder victim and only one man can solve the case. But Inspector Clouseau (Steve Martin) hasn’t a clue and he’ll crack everything […]
The best and worst of life on one of the toughest Glasgow estates are observed in writer Paul Laverty and director Ken Loach’s raw and insightful 1998 film. Peter Mullan stars as the man named Joe, an out […]
Michael Caine and Sylvester Stallone star in a fairly awesome movie about using a soccer game to cover an escape from a German POW camp in WWII. Director John Huston’s eccentric 1981 prisoner-of-war adventure hokum […]