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John McKay - what members say

Crush review by A customer from Kettering

Crush 26 August 2008
...y, you will need your tissues before the movie ends. Written and directed by John McKay, “Crush” is entertaining, funny and affecting, even where it loses its credibil... Read customer review

John McKay - filmography

We'll Take Manhattan (2012)
Starring: Karen Gillan, Aneurin Barnard, Helen McCrory
Director: John McKay
Certificate:
We'll Take Manhattan explores the explosive love affair between photographer David Bailey and sixties supermodel Jean Shrimpton. Focusing on a wild and unpredictable 1962 Vogue photo shoot in New York, the drama brings to life the story of two young people falling in love, misbehaving, and ..read more »

59% from 21 members
Not available for rental

Lip Service - Season 1 - Blu-ray (2010)
Starring: Fiona Button, Emun Elliott, Laura Fraser
Director: John McKay, Harry Bradbeer, Julian Holmes
Certificate:
Lip Service is a bold new lesbian drama created by Harriet Braun (Mistresses, Attachments) and follows the lives and loves of a group of twenty-something friends living in Glasgow. Meet Cat (Laura Fraser - A Knights Tale) a self assured architect whose life is spun upside down when her former lover ..read more »

72% from 20 members
Not available for rental

Lip Service - Season 1 (2010)
Starring: Fiona Button, Emun Elliott, Laura Fraser
Director: John McKay, Harry Bradbeer, Julian Holmes
Certificate:
Lip Service is a bold new lesbian drama created by Harriet Braun (Mistresses, Attachments) and follows the lives and loves of a group of twenty-something friends living in Glasgow. Meet Cat (Laura Fraser - A Knights Tale) a self assured architect whose life is spun upside down when her former lover ..read more »

82% from 121 members
Not available for rental

Robin Hood - Series 1 - Complete - HD (5 discs) (2006)
Starring: Jonas Armstrong, Keith Allen, Lucy Griffiths
Director: John McKay
Certificate:
Robin Hood's striking new look, coupled with Dominic Minghella's sharp scripts; updates the popular legend for a sophisticated contemporary audience.

67% from 93 members
Not currently released

Life on Mars - S01 E08 (2006)
Starring: John Simm, Philip Glenister, Dean Andrews
Director: S.J. Clarkson, John McKay
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Sam has finally started to accept his new world and believes that he can deal with anything that it throws at him. Then he comes face to face with his 29-year-old dad, a small-time gambler caught up in a murder case.

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Robin Hood - Series 1 - Complete - Blu-ray (4 discs) (2006)
Starring: Keith Allen, Richard Armitage, Jonas Armstrong
Director: John McKay
Certificate:
Lavish retelling of the legendary hero who robbed from the rich and gave to the poor. Newcomer Jonas Armstrong stars as Robin Hood, with comedian Keith Allen playing his formidable foe, the Sheriff of Nottingham.

64% from 258 members

Life on Mars - S01 E07 (2006)
Starring: John Simm, Philip Glenister, Dean Andrews
Director: S.J. Clarkson, John McKay
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When a small time drug dealer dies in police custody, Sam is pitted against the whole of CID.

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Robin Hood - Series 1 - Vol.3 on DVD (2006)
Starring: Jonas Armstrong, Keith Allen, Bev Doyle
Director: John McKay
Certificate:
Volume 3 from the first series of the lavish retelling of the legendary hero who robbed from the rich and gave to the poor. Newcomer Jonas Armstrong stars as Robin Hood, with comedian Keith Allen playing his formidable foe, the Sheriff of Nottingham.

77% from 951 members

Life on Mars - S01 E04 (2006)
Starring: John Simm, Philip Glenister, Dean Andrews
Director: S.J. Clarkson, John McKay
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Sam calls into question the ethos of his whole department when he takes on a local gangster. But does he realise the full consequences of this fight? And can Gene lay to rest a ghost from his past?

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Robin Hood - Series 1 - Vol.2 on DVD (2006)
Starring: Bev Doyle, Keith Allen, Richard Armitage
Director: John McKay
Certificate:
Volume 2 from the first series of the lavish retelling of the legendary hero who robbed from the rich and gave to the poor. Newcomer Jonas Armstrong stars as Robin Hood, with comedian Keith Allen playing his formidable foe, the Sheriff of Nottingham.

77% from 948 members

Life on Mars - S01 E05 (2006)
Starring: John Simm, Philip Glenister, Dean Andrews
Director: S.J. Clarkson, John McKay
Certificate:
Sam and Gene investigate the murder of a Manchester United football fan.

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Life On Mars - Series 1 (4 discs) on DVD (2006)
Starring: John Simm, Philip Glenister, Liz White
Director: John Alexander, John McKay
Certificate:
LIFE ON MARS is a throwback to the crime-fighting style of the 1970s, drawing its inspiration from such TV series as THE SWEENEY and THE PROFESSIONALS. As was characteristic of classic 60s fantasy, the creators have taken some risks with the show's politically incorrect references, daring to be ..read more »

82% from 15,604 members

Life on Mars - S01 E03 (2006)
Starring: John Simm, Philip Glenister, Dean Andrews
Director: S.J. Clarkson, John McKay
Certificate:
A fatal stabbing at a textiles firm leads to a shocking discovery for Sam.

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Robin Hood - Series 1, Vol 1 (2 discs) on DVD (2006)
Starring: Keith Allen, Richard Armitage, Jonas Armstrong
Director: John McKay
Certificate:
Lavish retelling of the legendary hero who robbed from the rich and gave to the poor. Newcomer Jonas Armstrong stars as Robin Hood, with comedian Keith Allen playing his formidable foe, the Sheriff of Nottingham.

74% from 1,217 member

Life on Mars - S01 E01 (2006)
Starring: John Simm, Philip Glenister, Dean Andrews
Director: S.J. Clarkson, John McKay, Bharat Nalluri
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Detective Sam Tyler's world is about to be turned upside down. Moments after his girlfriend and colleague is kidnapped, Sam is knocked unconscious by a car and wakes up - in the year 1973...

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Life on Mars - S01 E06 (2006)
Starring: John Simm, Philip Glenister, Dean Andrews
Director: S.J. Clarkson, John McKay
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When his mother's voice bleeds through from the present, Sam hears her say goodbye to him.

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Life on Mars - S01 E02 (2006)
Starring: John Simm, Philip Glenister, Dean Andrews
Director: S.J. Clarkson, John McKay
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Sam's dogged pursuit of evidence brings him head to head with his DCI, Gene Hunt.

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Waste Of Shame - William Shakespeare on DVD (2005)
Starring: Rupert Graves
Director: John McKay
Certificate:
A lavish drama exploring the story behind Shakespeare’s love sonnets. The Bard's innermost thoughts and private life are laid bare, offering a fresh perspective on his most personal and celebrated works.

49% from 30 members

Piccadilly Jim (2004)
Starring: Cassandra Bell, Brenda Blethyn, Hugh Bonneville
Director: John McKay
Certificate:
Period comedy based on the novel by P.G. Wodehouse. Jim Crocker (Sam Rockwell) is a young American journalist living in London in the 1930s, writing a column under the name 'Piccadilly Jim', and whose wild, hard-drinking antics have scandalised his mother (Allison Janney) and father (Tom Wilkinson) ..read more »

41% from 625 members
Not currently released

Crush on DVD (2001)
Starring: Estelle Harris, Andie MacDowell, Imelda Staunton
Director: John McKay
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Three forty-something women, Kate (Andie MacDowell), Molly (Anna Chancellor), and Janine (Imelda Staunton), gather weekly to swap stories, drink gin, and laugh about whose life is more pathetic, the prize for which is a box of chocolates. A constant problem for these ladies, who live in the sleepy ..read more »

58% from 1,650 member

Trust on DVD (1990)
Starring: Adrienne Shelly, Martin Donovan, Merritt Nelson
Director: Hal Hartley
Certificate:
TRUST tells the darkly comic tale of an unlikely romance between Maria (Adrienne Shelly), a well-meaning yet thoughtless pregnant teenager, and Matthew (Martin Donovan), a frustrated young man who assembles and repairs electronics. When Maria and her judgmental father get into a heated argument and ..read more »

69% from 1,036 member

The Whistleblowers - Series 1 (2 discs) on DVD
Starring: Richard Coyle, Indira Varma, Daniel Ryan
Director: John McKay, Paul Gay, Richard Clark
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Whistleblower is a six-part drama series which focusses on a paralegal team who investigate cases of whistleblowing.

66% from 61 members

Life On Mars - Series 1 - Complete - Blu-ray (2 discs)
Starring: John Simm, Philip Glenister, Liz White
Director: John Alexander, John McKay
Certificate:
LIFE ON MARS is a throwback to the crime-fighting style of the 1970s, drawing its inspiration from such TV series as THE SWEENEY and THE PROFESSIONALS. As was characteristic of classic 60s fantasy, the creators have taken some risks with the show's politically incorrect references, daring to be ..read more »

83% from 1,424 member

John McKay facts

5 most recent films

We'll Take Manhattan - 3.0 stars
Lip Service - Season 1 - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Lip Service - Season 1 - 4.0 stars
Robin Hood - Series 1 - Complete - HD - 3.5 stars
Life on Mars - S01 E08 - 3 stars

5 highest-rated films

Life On Mars - Series 1 - Complete - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Life On Mars - Series 1 - 4.0 stars
Lip Service - Season 1 - 4.0 stars
Robin Hood - Series 1 - Vol.3 - 4.0 stars
Robin Hood - Series 1 - Vol.2 - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Waste Of Shame - William Shakespeare - 2.5 stars
We'll Take Manhattan - 3.0 stars
Lip Service - Season 1 - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Piccadilly Jim - 2.0 stars
Crush - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Philip Glenister - 24 times - show films
Marshall Lancaster - 24 times - show films
Dean Andrews - 24 times - show films
John Simm - 24 times - show films
Liz White - 24 times - show films

Most frequent directors

S.J. Clarkson - 16 times - show films
John Alexander - 8 times - show films
Harry Bradbeer - 2 times - show films
Julian Holmes - 2 times - show films
Bharat Nalluri - 2 times - show films