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[quote - Blissblogger) and let's not forget the Republic of Ireland more or less siding (??) with the Axis Powers in WW2 (although to be fairer that was perhaps the enemy of my enemy is my friend vis-a-vis England) Ireland was neutral in the Second World War, but de facto supported the...

I recognised it too, absolutely, it conjures up that gruelling small town perversity in a way that I haven`t seen before in British film, though Leigh's Naked is a good reference point. But then the slasher/ western element betrays that achievement in my view: its a cop out, style subverts...

Ok Mein kind. I think the film is an example of how the hybridization of genre can result not in the creation of something new and exciting, but merely leeches whatever it was that was interesting out of the elements from which it draws. Secondly, the viewer is dragooned into identifying with...

Why would I mean Manchester?

Do I have to spell it out? Again?

Shane Meadows takes the British Social Realist film, and grafts on the most basic cliches of the Horse Opera (lone avenger, idiot boy) to produce something stylistically pointless and morally incoherent. A travesty.

Quartz confetti in the gutter after a TWOC.