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Post by pointblank on Apr 7, 2008 19:33:55 GMT
thanks tom i will pass it on, he,s in the big city doing some adr @ the moment
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Post by pointblank on Apr 7, 2008 17:13:39 GMT
i know before you start.....its just that we have just found out tomo has been cast in a lead role in a new film called"scouting for boys"so you can decide for yourselves,this is not a wind up, dont know much about it yet only seen the sides he got for his audition i will post further when i know more.....
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Post by pointblank on Mar 24, 2008 10:33:01 GMT
tried to watch but no sound was this just mine?
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Post by pointblank on Mar 24, 2008 10:29:50 GMT
i would travel to see this, i spend hours in our local library trawling through old photos,mainly of the history of our town (the fishing etc) but i love any photography.as suggested why dont you post up a slideshow/sample of your work and let us share?
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Post by pointblank on Mar 17, 2008 19:55:28 GMT
it was a shit hot latest out mobile,and no prizes for guessing who relieved him of it.......
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Post by pointblank on Feb 28, 2008 19:00:26 GMT
we live about 8 miles from the epicentre and i never eard a thing when my wife woke me to tell me i just said it,ll be the conoco refinery blown up again and went back to sleep.
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Post by pointblank on Feb 26, 2008 19:24:24 GMT
well done hartley if you had got invited over i could ave been ur minder,and i am also a life long member of the coogee bay legion .........no really i am
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Post by pointblank on Sept 3, 2007 17:26:01 GMT
hope everything goes well with your convalecense and enjoy the film...rob
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Post by pointblank on Sept 2, 2007 17:16:36 GMT
halfpint pm me your address and i will sort you out once optimum sort me out......i always was a sucker for a hard luck tale
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Post by pointblank on Sept 1, 2007 10:44:19 GMT
tomo wont be in nottingham folks,but he will sign dvds for you guys via the mail,let him get home from filming on tuesday (4th) and i will set something up if any one is interested
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Post by pointblank on Sept 1, 2007 12:19:14 GMT
good one hartley............
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Post by pointblank on Sept 3, 2007 17:33:05 GMT
i am a huge,huge fan of the gary oldman film nil by mouth so for that reason (social realism) i will say TIE, BUT i loved the end of DMS and it is in my all time top 5...........
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Post by pointblank on Jul 30, 2007 16:53:30 GMT
shane and paddy were filming le donk for a possible documentary,opera,sit com-who knows? the man is an absolute lunatic,but a top guy nontheless. a great time was had by all and tomo and i met some top people. everyone was really nice and tomo was more than happy to pose for photos and sign autographs. the monkeys were absolutely effin great, tomo went crowd surfing and i didnt find him for over an hour..... a top top weekend and a massive thanks to all @ warp for looking after us.......
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Post by pointblank on Jul 27, 2007 17:04:02 GMT
This is England" is a viewing experience that makes you want to rip the main character off the screen to protect him from making horrible mistakes. It's a thoroughly exhaustive, hand-wringing emotional stick of provincial dynamite that viciously grabs the audience by the collar and drags them through the gummy muck of lives gone horribly wrong. Shaun (Thomas Turgoose) is a lonesome 12-year-old boy mourning the loss of his father to the Falklands War and failing to properly deal with bullies at his school. Crossing his path one day is a group of rather jovial skinheads, who take to Shaun and quickly adopt him as one of the gang. Shaun, now decked out in a Ben Sherman shirt and Dr. Martens, is filled with a sense of family and purpose, but the gang dynamic changes when Combo (Stephen Graham, "Snatch") is released from prison and looks to reclaim his leadership role. Now back in control, Combo turns the gang away from friendship and back to a force of hate, dragging a confused Shaun along for the rise as it reaches increasingly violent and frustrated levels.
Writer/director Shane Meadows could be criticized for the worrisome quality of a few of his films, but never his commitment to emotional authenticity. He's a sensitive soul, madly searching for passionate flashes of communication that connect the audience to the screen and lend his characters a theater of reality to explore. "This is England" is Meadows most personal work, taking the audience back to 1983, when the U.K. was lost in a post-Falklands fog, which imparted the working class with an even greater socioeconomic bill to pay. "England" is equal parts a tribute to and lament of the era, when hope wasn't completely lost, just distributed disproportionately across the land.
The cruel twist of the film is that Shaun is our tour guide to all this massive discontent; a troubled kid who's expectedly vulnerable to peer pressure and longs for a surrogate father. Played with raw-nerve, fists-clenched poise by Turgoose, Shaun is a firecracker of a child, quick with a retort, begging for that last drop of trouble. He's lost without a parental figure, leaving him frighteningly wide open to the gracious mischief of the skinheads. The gang gives Shaun the identity he's been craving, and Meadows renders this desire skillfully through Turgoose's bottomless reactions. We can see Shaun come alive with this new attention and can only agonize silently when his trust is placed into the wrong hands.
Once Combo enters the picture, "England" goes from a slice-of-life medley of pre-teen growing pain sequences to something more defined in purpose and familiar in trajectory. Meadows has a tendency to overcook Combo's threat to his brotherhood and Shaun, pouring Ludovico Einaudi's suffocating score on heavily, which has a nasty habit of underlining the misery of Shaun's situation, and later, Combo's eventual emotional unraveling. However, that doesn't prevent "England" from evoking intense feelings of anger and pity for these lost souls, a theme that Meadows is excellent at capturing.
Bolstered by a ska-heavy soundtrack, nostalgic period details, and a thematic tying of the film's events to a scathing historical backdrop, "England" achieves a startling you-are-there atmosphere that emboldens every moment of drama. It's a complex, highly visceral web of social terror, misplaced faith, and violent manipulation that is pulled off incredibly, making "This is England" a must-see viewing experience.
Nerve.com By: Mike D'Angelo July 27, 2007 Negative Review found this in my in box sounds like all is positive
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Post by pointblank on May 11, 2007 17:41:49 GMT
well done meadows.............from all us up here in gy
posted an interesting article on the forum with a piece from our local rag .....all positive i might add
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