Originally published by Thinking Faith (29 August 2008)

Despite its yoof title, its period setting, its street slang and drugs, despite its New York hip-hop soundtrack and graffiti fonts, this is a very straight-laced, accessible tale. And a familiar one too – it shares several elements with American Beauty.
Welcome to New York City, summer 1994. Eighteen [...]

Posted on August 29th, 2008 by Truphtooph
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Originally published by Thinking Faith (1 August 2008)

Married Life sets itself up as a quaint little period piece with a stylish animated credit intro showing the chintzy, domestic bliss of prosperous post-war America.  What’s most remarkable about this is that it isn’t some sort of twee counterpoint to a subsequent tale of debauchery like, say, [...]

Posted on August 2nd, 2008 by Truphtooph
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Originally published by Thinking Faith (1 August 2008)

This film about football hooliganism should be better than the others, and not just because that gormless Danny Dyer is nowhere to be seen.  It’s based on the true story of Karol ‘Cass’ Pennant, a black boy with a girl’s name, who was raised by an elderly white [...]

Posted on August 1st, 2008 by Truphtooph
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