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In A ROOM FOR ROMEO BRASS, two teenage boys, Romeo (Andrew Shrim) and Knocks (Ben Marshall), whose families live in the same housing development in a small town in the Midlands, England, share a unique friendship. Making jokes that nobody else understands, fighting over little things, being brutally honest with each other, the .. Read more

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  Best of the Decade

  • 01 Dec 2009

  Have you voted yet? Last time I looked, our Defining Films of the Decade poll had amassed over 100, 000 votes, and though there was a clear front-runner there was surprisingly little to separate the top titles in the race from the pack. In other words, there’s still time if you want to stop Moulin Rouge from running away with it! The poll ‘only’ stretches to one hundred titles, for which we should probably be grateful – a certain film magazine recently sent me a far... Read more

  

  This Is England

  • 23 Apr 2007

  Father figures, mentors, men and boys, these are relationships that crop up in all five of Shane Meadows' films, and most often they are central. In This Is England, twelve-year-old Shaun (a brilliant performance from newcomer Thomas Turgoose) is mourning his dad, killed in action in the Falklands. The year is 1983, and Thatcher is riding a wave of rekindled nationalism on the rump of that victory. Shaun is lonely, vulnerable, and a ripe target for bullies. At an age when his identity is up... Read more

  

  England Calling: The Films of Shane Meadows

  • 23 Apr 2007

  I went to film school with Shane Meadows. Not really, but a few years ago I did do a one-day film-making course in Nottingham that Shane supervised. He showed us which end of the camera to look through, split us into groups of three, and gave us a couple of hours to come up with a script and go out and shoot it. I'd like to report that my team came back with a masterpiece, but that might be an exaggeration. Let's just say the reviews I wrote over the next couple of weeks were probably more... Read more

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    In A ROOM FOR ROMEO BRASS, two teenage boys, Romeo (Andrew Shrim) and Knocks (Ben Marshall), whose families live in the same housing development in a small town in the Midlands, England, share a unique friendship. Making jokes that nobody else understands, fighting over little things, being ...

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