Shane Meadows

Somers Town: ‘funny, sad and uplifting’. Somers Town, a magical coming-of-age film, directed in glorious monochrome by Shane Meadows, was criminally ignored on its first release. It is funny, sad and uplifting, but I guess people were put off by the subject matter. It is a film that deserves to be seen, and while it was never going to win major awards (it did respectable business at a few smaller film festivals), it deserved to find an audience bigger than the one it actually got...Read Full Story

For any aspiring filmmakers out there, one of our favorite working directors , Shane Meadows , is teaming up with mobile company Nokia, and mobile video company MOFILM, to launch a new filmmaking competition , in association with the London Film Festival , and to launch it, Meadows will be appearing at the Nokia Store on Regent Street in London tomorrow, and leading a workshop with young filmmakers. The brief for the competition is to make a 90 second short on the theme "what being connected...Read Full Story

He’s made some of the edgiest films of the past decade or so which has featured themes of youth, vengeance and racism but British director Shane Meadows is now planning to make a film about controversial cyclist Tom Simpson in an upcoming biopic. Meadows who tends to base his films in the past, wants to focus on Simpson’s athletic career from how he broke into the sport in the 1950s by being part of the British cycling team that won bronze in the 1956 Olympics, to being the first Brit to...Read Full Story

British director Shane Meadows has been forming a reputation, as an up and coming talent, for some years which arguably came to fruition with this genre revenge pic, about a solider returning to his home town in Derbyshire with blood and vengeance on his mind. Tommy Salami of the awesome Pluck You, Too , takes a look at this low on budget but high on thrills thriller whilst taking in the history of the vengeance genre and gives Dead Man Shoes his approval, especially Paddy Considine's...Read Full Story

Oh No They Didn't! (for the handful of people who might be interested!) Writer Shane Meadows is to make a one-off Christmas special to follow on from the This is England film and TV series. Set... Summary only. For Video and more we can't show you here www.ant.tvRead Full Story

A review of the BFI DVD release of two early Shane Meadows' films, Small Time and Where's the Money Ronnie!Read Full Story

Wikizines are interactive magazines that anyone can create or edit - and this one is about Shane Meadows. Here you can find fresh voices and respond in real time. Some members write articles about recent news and trends related to the wikizine's topic, others recount relevant personal stories or share their favorite pictures and video clips. Got an interesting idea or story to share with other members of this wikizine? Well, then put on your journalist's cap and add your own article!Read Full Story

Video : This is England 86, the eagerly awaited four part drama from Shane Meadows, begins tomorrow at 10pm. Here Meadows and his cast share their experiences of making the showRead Full Story

Somers Town RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) Comedy-drama. Directed by Shane Meadows. With Thomas Turgoose, Piotr Jagiello, Ireneusz Czop, Perry Benson, Elisa Lasowski. In English and Polish, with English subtitles. (Not rated. 70 minutes. At the Lumiere in San… More: continued hereRead Full Story

 Writer Shane Meadows is to make a one-off Christmas special to follow on from the This is England film and TV series.Set two years later on from This is England '86, the two-hour drama will... Summary only. For Video and more we can't show you here www.ant.tvRead Full Story