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Shane Meadows - news / articles


  • Shane Meadows wins at Edinburgh - 30 June 2008
    Shane Meadows has been given a major award at this year's Edinburgh International Festival.-The Dead Man's Shoes director scooped the Michael Powell Award for best new British feature for his new film Somers Town, which focuses on the adventures of a Polish teenager in


  • England Calling: The Films of Shane Meadows - 23 April 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 hou

Shane Meadows - what members say


  • A Room For Romeo Brass
  • A Room For Romeo Brass review by James Wright from Surrey
    Rated - 4 stars Do not be afraid, they really are talking like normal people! 14 January 2005
    ... of the subject matter, but rather the way in which the story is told: Director Shane Meadows gave the actors (adult and child alike) such a wide margin for error, that most...  
  • Twenty Four Seven
  • Twenty Four Seven review by Ludd from Bristol
    Rated - 4 stars Not completely bleak, but nearly. 11 November 2006
    ...t a Midlands accents but it wavers. Otherwise he's as good as he always is. Not Shane Meadows' best work (I'm an admirer and maybe expect too much form him) but still well w...  
  • Once Upon A Time In The Midlands
  • Once Upon A Time In The Midlands review by fiona#1 from WHITSTABLE
    Rated - 3 stars 5 October 2003
    ...track features an evocative hopalong harmonica riff. -Western references aside, Shane Meadows makes films in the fundamentally British style of Ken Loach and Mike Leigh ? th...  

Shane Meadows - filmography


  • Twenty Four Seven on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Bob Hoskins,  Bruce Jones,  Frank Harper
    Director: Shane Meadows
    Certificate: 15
    From the poverty and despair of an English industrial town, one man with a dream (Bob Hoskins) forms a boxing club to give troubled teenagers a fighting chance. The lads learn lessons of self-respect and male bonding, but amidst the triumph of the biggest tournament of their lives, tragedy strikes. ..read more »
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Shane Meadows facts

5 most recent films


Somers Town - 3.5 stars
Somers Town - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
This Is England - 3.5 stars
This Is England - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
Dead Man's Shoes - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films


A Room For Romeo Brass - 3.5 stars
This Is England - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
This Is England - 3.5 stars
Somers Town - 3.5 stars
Twenty Four Seven - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films


Somers Town - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
Once Upon A Time In The Midlands - 2.5 stars
Dead Man's Shoes - 3.5 stars
Twenty Four Seven - 3.5 stars
Somers Town - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars


Andrew Shim - 4 times - show films
Frank Harper - 4 times - show films
Jack O'Connell - 2 times - show films
Mariusz Gajewski - 2 times - show films
Danielle Watson - 2 times - show films