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This is Shrewsbury

Advantages: Interesting look at modern Shrewsbury
Disadvantages: None

This is Shrewsbury is one of the best modern photographic records of an English county town that I have seen in a very long time indeed. It is written by Al Smith, Mike Ashton and Danny Beath and edited by Fay Easton and Phil Northwood, published by the Shrewsbury Town Centre Management Partnership. If only all town centre management partnerships were as pro-active and as go ahead as Shrewsbury's! For me, the book captures all the many different, somewhat mercurial moods and nuances that make up the medieval and paradoxically at the same time, modern town of Shrewsbury. There's a young man enjoying a quiet pint in a smokey pub. And facing the ethereal beauty of the Kingsland Bridge over the River Severn early one morning. There are photographs which reflect the proud military history of Shrewsbury, yet these are juxtaposed ...

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Review of This is Shrewsbury - Al Smith, Danny Beath

This is England.... apparently!

Advantages: Dark, gritty & enthrawling
Disadvantages: A bit slow at times

and The Falklands War Cast Biographies Theatrical Trailer The soundtrack is also available from play.com & will cost you £11.99. The soundtrack features: 54-46 Was My Number - Toots & The Maytals Come On Eileen - Dexys Midnight Runners Tainted Love - Soft Cell Underpass/Flares - Movie Dialogue Nicole Gravenhurst - Instrumental Cynth / Dad - Movie Dialogue Morning Sun - Al Barry & The Cimarons Shoe Shop - Movie Dialogue Louie Louie - Toots & The Maytals Pressure Drop - Toots & The Maytals Hair In Cafe - Movie Dialogue Do The Dog - The Specials Ritornare - Ludovico Einaudi This Is England - Movie Dialogue Return Of DJango - The Upsetters Warhead - UK Subs Fuori Dal Mondo - Ludovico Einaudi Since Yesterday - Strawberry Switchblade Tits - Movie Dialogue The Dark End Of The Street - Percy Sledge Oltremare ...

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Review of This Is England (DVD)

This is England

Advantages: Thomas Turgoose, British, nostalga, powerful, thought provoking
Disadvantages: Depressing

Being a "Skinhead Movie" it is inevitable that This is England gets compared to American History X. Whereas Shane Meadows' epic portrayal of 1980s Britain isn't as much a social commentary about racism and how to overcome it as American History X is, it does, however, provide the perfect mix of nostalgia, individual insecurity, and violent bigotry that makes This is England a personal and powerful experience best approached with your grandmother's old English hanky. What a weird and wonderful era the 1980s was in Britain. If you're fortunate, or unfortunate, enough to remember a time when Roland Rat and Maggie Thatcher ruled our televisions then you'll find yourself bathing in a mix of nostalgic excitement and/or restraining yourself from smashing the TV to a pulp with the film's opening montage. This sets the menacing air ...

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