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Exclusive clips of This Is England ’86

by Mof Gimmers on August 31, 2010 0 Comments

Shane Meadow’s This Is England film got a fair few of you excited and reappraising the collected works of Toots and the Maytals. Fair enough. Now there’s a TV series of the film to get stuck into and we have some clips of it.

Yessir, This Is England ’86 is the new four-parter that focuses on the year that had the best World Cup ever!

1986 was the year Maradona punched England out of the world cup in Mexico; the year Top Gun is the highest grossing film; the year over 3.4 million Brits are unemployed and the year Shaun (Thomas Turgoose) is leaving school.

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Movie Review – Somers Town

by hecklerspray staff on August 22, 2008 1 Comment

somers town film moview review shane meadows thomas turgoose piotr jagiello this is england dead mans shoesAt the end of his movie you will just want to stand up and cheer.

Somers Town does not have the far reaching social analysis of This is England or the balletic masculinity of Dead Man’s Shoes. It has some of these qualities as you would expect being a Shane Meadows film, but more than anything Somers Town has heart, a big beating, bleeding, young and in love, scrapping and getting pissed heart.

The story details the lives of two lads Tomo (Thomas Turgoose) – a Nottingham lad fled to The Big Smoke homeless and penniless, and Marek (Piotr Jagiello), a Polish immigrant living with his hard drinking but loving father, who befriends Tomo.

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