London In Festival Year 1951 DVD

Advantages: VERY IMPRESSIVE FILM
Disadvantages: NONE

...'s lives are hard and hopeless and they grift as best they can to get by. The gloom extends to the locations too, from the grey and empty streets of London to the cold and desolate Brighton beach. And yet despite the despair and the lengths that street worker Kelly (played quite brilliantly by Lorraine Stanley) has to go to to simply survive, she discovers a streak of maternal compassion and morality when she takes the lost 12 year-old Joanne (a stunning debut by Georgia Groome) under her wing as the girls go on the run from some very bad men. The cast is uniformly excellent but particularly the two female leads and the vicious thug Derek who is played with such clinical and chilling effiiciency by Johnny Harris. This truly impressive first feature film, announces a major talent in Paul Williams, both as director and writer. His dialogue... Read review

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Advantages: Good Acting, Makes You Think
Disadvantages: Quite slow moving in parts

...I enjoyed the film London very much. Chris Evans (Syd) and Jason Statham (Bateman) work very well together and I thought the acting was very good. Through a series of flashbacks we learn what Syd's relationship was like with London who he was going out with for a couple of years. They split up, but he never got over her. Now she is leaving and a leaving party is thrown for her. This is his last chance to try to explain to London how he feels and see if he can win her back from her new boyfriend. Syd meets Bateman to score some Cocaine, and persuades him to come to London's party. They spent the entire night in the bathroom, doing lines and a lot of soul searching. At times the conversation gets quite heated, but is always very interesting. It really made the viewer think about his/her life and where they are going. Its quite a sad... Read review

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Advantages: good action
Disadvantages: ?

...Gangsta No1 is a brilliant gangster movie set in Bethnell Green, London in the 1970's. It captures the loyalty and deception of a small time gangster hired by one of the leading gangsters in London brilliantly. The story is starts off 25 years after the young gangster was hired and takes you through his life in london from a small nobody through to his time as a number one gangster. I will not go too much into the film as i would not want to spoil it, but if you like good gangster films then this is a must see. There are deleted scenes, cast commentry, and trailers on the DVD.... Read review

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