Paid Members Arch Stanton Posted September 30, 2010 Paid Members Share Posted September 30, 2010 Madonna's handball? That a deliberate mistake? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Astro Hollywood Posted September 30, 2010 Moderators Share Posted September 30, 2010 Madonna's handball? That a deliberate mistake? Â Ha, holy shit, no it's not. I shall however, pretend that it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluetonic Posted September 30, 2010 Share Posted September 30, 2010 Crikey, Woyzeck's blog was even more self indulgent and boring than the actual show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Astro Hollywood Posted September 30, 2010 Moderators Share Posted September 30, 2010 Crikey, Woyzeck's blog was even more self indulgent and boring than the actual show.  blog  self indulgent  No shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Hardcore John Atkins Posted October 1, 2010 Paid Members Share Posted October 1, 2010 Crikey, Woyzeck's blog was even more self indulgent and boring than the actual show. Â You couldn't be more wrong. Â Why this isn't gracing the pages of Word magazine instead of hacks-for-hire like Andrew Collins is beyond me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted October 1, 2010 Share Posted October 1, 2010 Good read, Woyzeck! It's strange that they managed that trade-off in tone so well in a two-hour film, and not in a much longer series. You'd think it'd be easier with more screen time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Astro Hollywood Posted October 1, 2010 Moderators Share Posted October 1, 2010 It's strange that they managed that trade-off in tone so well in a two-hour film, and not in a much longer series. You'd think it'd be easier with more screen time. Â The co-writer previously worked on Skins, and that dreadful C4 show about disabled people living on a desert island, so it's possible the bits that felt like someone badly aping Shane Meadows' style were exactly that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Pitcos Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 The DVD's out today. I'm skint so I haven't bought it but apparently there's a deleted scene with the lad from Fonejacker/Four Lions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted January 26, 2011 Author Paid Members Share Posted January 26, 2011 Writer Shane Meadows is to make a one-off Christmas special to follow on from the This is England film and TV series. Set two years later on from This is England '86, the two-hour drama will deal with the aftermath of the events in that four-part series.  "Just when I think my love affair with This is England is over, it pulls me back in," Meadows said.  Channel 4 has also confirmed that This is England '90, set in the rave era, is currently in development.  Picking up the action at Christmas 1988, the story will focus on the relationship between the Lol and Woody characters.  Meadows told the Stage newspaper that while Channel 4 "would have happily had me go straight to 1990, I felt I needed something in-between."  Channel 4's head of drama Camilla Campbell said: "We're beyond excited that Shane, Warp Films and the cast have agreed to return with this feature length drama.  "It is set to pull together a lot of story threads from '86, leaving the way clear for a new series of This is England '90."  This is England '86, which screened on Channel 4 last September, was named best TV drama at the South Bank Awards on Tuesday.  The original film, written and directed by Meadows in 2006, told of an impressionable young boy who becomes involved with a gang of skinheads.  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12286245  Even though I was quite disappointed overall with This Is England 86, I'm still looking forward to these, especially how it might cover rave and acid house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 This Is England '90 had better feature footage of Roger Milla. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Checkmate Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 loved the film didnt really feel the same about the tv series though didn't really capture me like the film did Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted December 6, 2011 Author Paid Members Share Posted December 6, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=playe...p;v=iZIQNyYfl9w  Starts December 13th and will run over three consecutive nights, which will be nice and compact.  '86 had massive flaws in-between some exceptional moments. In terms of a narrative it was fine, but the actual story arc and jumping of tone was very poorly done indeed. Hopefully this will be rather more reigned in.  Bad news for Kelly fans, though - she's not got the pink hair any more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Pitcos Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 '86 had massive flaws in-between some exceptional moments. In terms of a narrative it was fine, but the actual story arc and jumping of tone was very poorly done indeed. My feeling on it, looking back, is the opposite. I don't mind the shifts in tone, it's the holes in the narrative that get me -- Combo turning up at Shaun's house made zero sense, the "Harvey gets beaten up by his dad" subplot went nowhere, Gadget never even asked Kelly out, etc. Â I'm looking forward to '88, but upset that Flip's not in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted December 6, 2011 Author Paid Members Share Posted December 6, 2011 '86 had massive flaws in-between some exceptional moments. In terms of a narrative it was fine, but the actual story arc and jumping of tone was very poorly done indeed. My feeling on it, looking back, is the opposite. I don't mind the shifts in tone, it's the holes in the narrative that get me -- Combo turning up at Shaun's house made zero sense, the "Harvey gets beaten up by his dad" subplot went nowhere, Gadget never even asked Kelly out, etc. Â I'd forgotten about that, actually, it came in some montage in the second to last episode, didn't it? Seemed odd to crowbar that in for no reason, I guess they might address it in this. Â Odd that they used The Smiths in the trailer as well considering they had split up the year before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Astro Hollywood Posted December 6, 2011 Moderators Share Posted December 6, 2011 Not exactly jazzed about this, obviously, but I'll probably give at least the first episode a watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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