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This film version of the Who's rock opera Quadrophenia makes a few tentative stabs at explaining the alienation of 1960s British working-class youth, but its major selling point is its nonstop rock-and-R? musical score, including the hit single Love Reign O'er Me. Phil Daniels (replacing the original opera's Roger Daltrey) .. Read more

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  Redknapp to play Winstone's wife in real-life crime movie

  • 21 Oct 2010

  Former pop star Louise Redknapp is set to make her big screen debut as movie tough guy Ray Winstone's wife in new crime caper The Hot Potato. The former Eternal star has joined a cast that also features Winstone's daughter Lois and his Quadrophenia co-star Phil Davis. The film chronicles real-life events that took place in the East End of London at the end of the 1960s and involves the explosion of a research laboratory and the sale of a ball of lost uranium. Shooting began at the end of... Read more

  

  Sting lined up for new film role

  • 09 Feb 2009

  Ageing rocker Sting is set to return to the movies with a role in a new film written by a close friend. The singer, real name Gordon Sumner, last hit the big screen in Guy Ritchie's gangster movie Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels in 1998. Sumner, 58, is now lined up to play a strict headmaster in a movie written by PR guru turned author Simon Astaire. The film is based on Astaire's debut novel Private Privilege, and Astaire thinks Sumner is perfect for a role. A friend tells British... Read more

  

  Chavs coming to the big screen

  • 16 Sep 2004

  British streets have seen them increasing in numbers for years now - but eyebrows have still been raised at the news that a new movie will be dedicated to chav culture. Provisionally titled Chav: The Movie, the film is attempting to bring the bling and Burberry brigade to the attention of an even wider audience. Streets frontman Mike Skinner is being lined up to star, with hopes high that Chav: The Movie could do for the noughties what Quadrophenia did for the sixties. "This is hopefully... Read more

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    It's the Mods versus the Rockers in this striking adaptation of the Who's classic rock opera about alienated youth in the 1960s. The film follows Jimmy (Phil Daniels) an angry young man who feels that he can only achieve a sense of identity and meaning in life through his gang and rock and roll ...

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    This film version of the Who's rock opera Quadrophenia makes a few tentative stabs at explaining the alienation of 1960s British working-class youth, but its major selling point is its nonstop rock-and-R&B musical score, including the hit single Love Reign O'er Me. Phil Daniels (replacing the ...

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