My Favorite Movies

Fantastic film and just keeps getting beter everytime I watch it. A fancinating look at how we interact as people all the preconceptions and irrational beliefs we have of others. Anyone who watches this film with complete honesty should see something that makes them feel uncomfortable about themselves and that is part of the genius of this film.

This film just took me straight back to 1983 I was back there backcombing my hair wearing too much eyeliner. I can remember first hand back when skinhead didn't mean rascist and this film reflects that time perfectly. I knew every character in this film in 80's England makes me want to turn back time and live it all again. This film is just pure in it's brilliance a complete antidote to glamorised Hollywood tripe.

A must see film with excellant performances from Clive Owen and Michael Caine. I love the distopian feel of this film and the grim warning of a what could be world. The plot doesn't try to answer all the questions it poses and gives the viewers the room to think for themselves.

Classic Loach, a tale of working class struggle in post-Thatcher, Conservative-ruled Britain, a place of despairing joblessness and disintegrating community.

Despite the unemployment, petty crime and crack that afflict their Lancashire housing estate, Bob (Jones) and wife Anne (Brown) remain staunch Catholics. Bob does odd jobs to put food on the table, but also because he's determined to buy their daughter her communion dress, rather than accept a loan from the priest. He's soon in hock to loan-sharks. Though the subject of Loach's film is as dark as ever, the movie is funnier than Riff-Raff, thanks to another delicious performance from Ricky Tomlinson as Bob's pal Tommy. The gags range from deadpan Northern banter to slapstick and scatology, but they don't overshadow the political acuity of Jim Allen's script , or the narrative's inexorable progress into the stuff of everyday nightmare. This is no rant, but a warm, unsentimental tribute to the working-class spirit. Superbly acted, as always, and a hugely enjoyable example of the cinema of commitment.