Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 10th, 2007 2 Comments »
I don’t know what it was that first got me scared, but I do remember being terrified by a mid-seventies TV broadcast of Whistle Down the Wind. I must have been about five. It was the moment when the kids find Alan Bates stranded in a field and ask him who he is. He looks […]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 1st, 2007 1 Comment »
This is England, released on DVD this month, is the kind of film that makes you wish Shane Meadows had directed Quadrophenia. This is England, you see, is not only a riveting exploration of a working class adolescence in a time of unrest, it’s also enriched by an attention to detail that is second to […]
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