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The hit-and-miss realms of Brit-grit cinema

This week’s UK release of the critically roasted Blood – a new thriller starring Paul Bettany and Stephen Graham (filmed, incidentally, in my home town) and the significantly more well-received Stone Roses documentary Made of Stone directed by Shane Meadows – who is usually known for his rough and realistic portrayals of working-class misery – …

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Unsung Gems – ‘Dead Man’s Shoes’ is fierce, gritty and unforgiving

Dead Man’s Shoes Directed by Shane Meadows Screenplay by Shane Meadows, Paddy Considine & Paul Fraser UK, 2005 The revenge thriller, where a morally dubious protagonist avenges the wrongs of the past in bloody and retributive fashion, is as much an institution in cinema as romantic drama and hard boiled noir, whether in the form …

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