“Nostalgic, funny, cinematic and deep, Little Voice is a terrifically well performed and well constructed piece of British cinematic history”. Joseph Wade reviews Mark Herman’s adaptation starring Caine, McGregor, Blethyn and Horrocks.
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Mark Herman’s memorable 2008 holocaust drama ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’ is a movie with a “hard-hitting and emotional narrative”, “a deserved classic for future cinephiles”. Bethen Blackabee reviews.
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After success with ‘Shaun of the Dead’ and ‘Hot Fuzz’, Edgar Wright took to North America with his off-kilter adaptation ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ (2010). Christopher Connor looks back in this retrospective review.
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Two rival ice cream gangs and the radio presenter stuck in the middle of it all. That’s the premise for Bill Forsyth’s 1984 comedy ‘Comfort and Joy’, a landmark of Scottish cinema according to Mark Carnochan.
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The Cornetto Trilogy came to an end with ‘The World’s End’ (2013), with Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and director Edgar Wright offering perhaps their most underrated film. Christopher Connor reviews.
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A BAFTA and Oscar winner, ‘The Full Monty’ is “not just a northern comedy about men who take their clothes off”. Robert Carlyle and Mark Addy star in Peter Cattaneo’s South Yorkshire classic. Annice White reviews.
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Once thought lost to an underhanded “distributor”, the story of how Scottish cult horror movie ‘Blood Junkies’ (1993) found a release is probably even more interesting than the film. Mark Carnochan reviews.
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“It’s been twenty years since Billy Elliot burst onto cinema screens, and its portrait of the North East remains just as moving and inspiring today.” Angel Lloyd reviews ‘Billy Elliot’ (2000).
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Ben Wheatley’s ‘A Field In England’ (2013) is a film “like nothing else” from “one of the most distinctive, original and prolific British filmmakers working today” according to Sam Sewell-Peterson in this review.
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The midpoint of The Cornetto Trilogy, ‘Hot Fuzz’, finds Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost firing on all cylinders. Christopher Connor reviews.
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Austin Butler is to lead a new film from Sony Pictures and 'Powers'