Demob Happy

Protoype Meadows 4/10 Shane Meadows’s first movie set the template for his more accomplished later work. Bob Hoskins excepting, Twenty Four Seven features a cast of largely non-professional actors, a liberal use of improvisation and a typically tragic-comic approach to realist drama. Set mostly in and around the working class midlands, Meadows’ films draws comparisons [...]

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“He’ll forgive them and allow them into Heaven. I can’t live with that” 8.5/10 Arguably Shane Meadow’s most accomplished film to date, Dead Man’s Shoes combines the director’s normal witty observance of small-town Midlands life with that of a classic revenge movie. It stars co-writer and Meadows regular Paddy Considine as Richard, an ex-soldier returning [...]

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Brassed off 6/10 Like Shane Meadows’ later ‘This is England‘, ‘A Room For Romeo Brass‘ is a coming of age drama revolving around friends growing up in the working class Midlands. Both films feature friendships tested by the divisive arrival of an influencial older figure. The protagonists in both films seek friendship to escape disappointment [...]

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