Posts tagged paddy considine

Poster and stills: Now is Good

Seventeen year old Tessa (Dakota Fanning) is diagnosed with a terminal illness and is determined to live for the moment and experience everything a teenager should.

Based on the novel Before I Die by Jenny Downham and released in cinemas on 25th May 2012. 

Paddy Considine plays the father in this film so we will be watching.

For more information and to view the trailer: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Now-Is-Good/227064200699109

Review: Tyrannosaur

“God ain’t my fucking daddy. My daddy was a fucking cunt”

I have to admit it; I avoided seeing this at the cinema. Not because I didn’t think it would be good, quite the opposite. Paddy Considine is one of the best actors working today and I knew any film with his name attached as Director would be affecting and astoundingly brilliant. I wasn’t wrong. Tyrannosaur is about abuse and redemption and it is brutally but thoughtfully depicted.  I sat at home and watched it on Blu-ray and allowed myself to be enthralled by the depth of the characters and moved by the dramatic and realistic scenes.

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LoCo Top 6 Comedy Films of 2011

The year is coming to an end, the nation is popping it’s slippers on and slowly grinding to a halt in order to spend the whole of the festive period eating, drinking and watching films.  It’s a time when a film lover’s mind turns to lists. There is nowhere to hide from them,  turn a corner and you’ll bump into some wiseguy bleating on about their favourite films of 2011. Well, you just turned onto LoCo’s corner.

So which DVDs should you be spending your Christmas money on?  Here in the LoCo bunker we’ve spent all week arm wrestling each other and arguing for our choices so, behold our selection for the top 6 Comedy films of the year (in no particular order):

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