Category: British Film

A Guy Ritchie Retrospective: Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

On By C.H. NewellIn 1998, Alan Ford, British Film, Comedy, Crime, Film, Guy Ritchie, Jason Statham, Lenny McLean, Sting1 Comment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8MXn5No1Jc Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. 1998. Directed & Written by Guy Ritchie. Starring Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, Nick Moran, Jason Statham, Steven Mackintosh, Nicholas Rowe, Vinnie Jones, Lenny McLean, Peter McNicholl, P.H. Moriarty, Frank Harper, Ronnie Fox, Stephen Marcus, Vas Blackwood, Alan Ford, & Sting. Summit Entertainment/The Steve Tisch Company/SKA Films. Rated 18A. …

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Skinhead Subculture vs. White Nationalism in This Is England

On By C.H. NewellIn 2006, British Film, Crime, Drama, Film, Racism, Shane Meadows, Stephen GrahamLeave a comment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqjEYfslwpA This Is England. 2006. Directed & Written by Shane Meadows. Starring Thomas Turgoose, Stephen Graham, Jo Hartley, Andrew Shim, Vicky McClure, Joseph Gilgun, Rosamund Hanson, Andrew Ellis, Perry Benson, George Newton, Frank Harper, & Jack O'Connell. Warp Films/Big Arty Productions/EM Media. Unrated. 101 minutes. Crime/Drama ★★★★★  Shane Meadows is a British National Treasure. His …

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Catch Me Daddy: A Grim Ride Into the Reality of Honour Killing

On By C.H. NewellIn British Film, Daniel Wolfe, Film, Gary Lewis, Kate Dickie, Religion, Sameena Jabeen Ahmed, ThrillerLeave a comment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI0_OxKu8DU Catch Me Daddy. 2014. Directed by Daniel Wolfe. Screenplay by Daniel & Matthew Wolfe. Starring Sameena Jabeen Ahmed, Connor McCarron, Gary Lewis, Barry Nunney, Adrian Hussain, Anwar Hussain, Ali Ahmad, Shoby Karman, Wasim Zakir, Nichola Burley, & Kate Dickie. Emu Films/Film4. Unrated. 110 minutes. Thriller ★★★★★ Does a film need to have a massive …

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Tyrannosaur; a.k.a What is Redemption?

On By C.H. NewellIn British Film, Drama, Eddie Marsan, Film, Olivia Colman, Paddy Considine, Peter MullanLeave a comment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG280k72MM8 Tyrannosaur. 2011. Directed & Written by Paddy Considine. Starring Peter Mullan, Olivia Colman, Eddie Marsan, Paul Popplewell, Samuel Bottomley, Sian Breckin, Ned Dennehy, Sally Carman, Julia Mallam and Natalia Carta. Warp X/Inflammable Films/Film4/UK Film Council/Screen Yorkshire/EM Media/Optimum Releasing. Not Rated. 92 minutes. Drama ★★★★★  Paddy Considine is a great artist, in terms of writing …

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The Last Horror Movie: Genuinely Chilling Found Footage Horror

On By C.H. NewellIn 2003, Blood, British Film, Film, Found Footage, Gore, Horror Movies, Julian Richards, Review, Sub-genre, ThrillerLeave a comment

The Last Horror Movie. 2003. Directed by Julian Richards; screenplay by James Handel from an idea by Julian Richards. Starring Kevin Howarth, Mark Stevenson, Antonia Beamish, Christabel Muir, Jonathan Coote, Rita Davies, Joe Hurley, Jamie Langthorne, John Berlyne, and Mandy Gordon. Prolific Films/Snakehair Productions. Rated R. 75 minutes. Horror/Thriller ★★★★1/2 I've talked a lot in …

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The Hypnotic Criminal Lure of Hyena

On By C.H. NewellIn British Film, Crime, Crime Film, Drama, Drugs, Film4, Gerard Johnson, Peter Ferdinando, Police Corruption, ThrillerLeave a comment

Hyena. 2014. Directed & Written by Gerard Johnson. Starring Peter Ferdinando, Stephen Graham, Neil Maskell, Elisa Lasowski, MyAnna Buring, Richard Dormer, Gordon Brown, Tony Pitts, Orli Shuka, Gjevat Kelmendi, Thomas Craig, Lorenzo Camporese, Shaban Arifi, Alfred Doda, and Mem Ferda. Film4/Number 9 Films. Unrated. 112 minutes. Crime/Drama ★★★★★ With the endorsement of Nicolas Winding Refn …

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Gerard Johnson’s Tony: Portrait of a British Killer

On By C.H. NewellIn British Film, Drama, Film, Gerard Johnson, Horror Movies, Indie Film, Peter Ferdinando, Review, ThrillerLeave a comment

Gerard Johnson examines a Dennis Nilsen-ish monster who is, sadly, all too human.

Sightseers a.k.a Caravan Holiday Massacre

On By C.H. NewellIn Adventure, Ben Wheatley, British Film, Comedy, Crime, SightseersLeave a comment

Sightseers. 2012. Directed by Ben Wheatley. Screenplay by Alice Lowe & Chris Oram; additional material by Amy Jump. Starring Alice Lowe, Steve Oram, Eileen Davies, Roger Michael, Tony Way, Seamus O'Neill, Monica Dolan, Jonathan Aris, Aymen Hamdouchi, and Tom Meeten. BFI/Big Talk Productions/Film4/Rook Films/StudioCanal. Rated 14A. 88 minutes. Adventure/Comedy/Crime ★★★★★ I'm a hardcore fan of …

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