A Middle-age-em-up where old habits die hard… but not as hard as Jack Jones’ liver…
Nick Love and Danny Dyer are back, and this time they’ve swapped the carefree coke-fuelled excess of The Business for the cold, grim reality of what happens when you keep living like that into your 50s. Marching Powder is a middle-age-em-up of the highest order, think Trainspotting 2, but with more fewer life lessons, and the looming threat of heart failure.
Dyer is Jack Jones,…
Nick ‘The Business’ Love, cinema’s poet laureate of lairy, lager-fuelled lad / dad culture, took a punt remaking Alan Clarke’s brutal 1989 classic The Firm.
Our wide-eyed protagonist, Dom (Calum McNab), is an impressionable South London teenager who falls under the spell of Bex (Paul Anderson, a different breed of menace from Gary Oldman’s legendary take). Bex is the charismatic but unhinged leader of a football firm, who takes Dom under his wing, showing him the adrenaline rush of post-match…
Director Daniel Kokotajlo (Apostasy) turns his lens to 1970s Yorkshire, crafting a chilling meditation on grief, isolation, and the eerie pull of the past.
Richard (Matt Smith) and Juliette (Morfydd Clark) are a couple shattered by the loss of their young son, Owen. They retreat to Richard’s childhood home, Starve Acre, hoping for a fresh start, but instead, they find themselves entangled in the malevolent roots of something ancient. Richard, an academic fascinated by local folklore, becomes obsessed with an…
Really loved this justice-em-up that swerves the tried n tested bloody violence and goes for a very satisfying ‘innocent man gets even without resorting to bloodbath’ dynamic.
Brilliant lead actor in Aaron Pierre who carries the film, ably supported by the excellent AnnaSophia Robb.
Jeremy ‘Blue Ruin’ Saulnier is making some great movies - long may he continue!!
