Hillsborough

Hillsborough (1996)

Director:

Charles McDougall

Writer 

Jimmy McGovern

Cast: Christopher Eccleston, Mark Womack, Ricky Tomlinson, Anabelle Apsion, Tracey Wilkinson

This film is a drama based on the events of April 1989, when ninety-six Liverpool supporters were crushed to death during an F.A. Cup Semi-Final match against Nottingham Forest at Sheffield Wednesday's Hillsborough Stadium. 

The movie follows the lives of three families before the match, during the tragedy and at the ensuing court battles which tried to decide who was to blame and what went wrong. 

The movie features an amazingly strong cast, and is depicted with respect towards the victims families and the pain of their loss, the treatment they received immediately afterwards.

I am not a football fan but this is a film that kept me gripped and made me really think about how justice was not served until this year.

Cockneys vs Zombies (2012)

Director : Matthias Hoene



Cast: Georgia King, Honor Blackman, Michelle Ryan, Alan Ford, Tony Gardner, Harry Treadaway, Richard Briers, Rasmus Hardiker, Ashley Bashey Thomas, Dudley Sutton, Gerogina Hale, Jack Doolan, and Tony Selby

So the film is one of the many reasons I love British Cinema, totally crazy but still kind of believable.

Basically the film is set around an inept pair of brothers with a heart of gold, trying to raise money to save their Grandads old peoples home. So they come up with a plan with a bunch of misfits to rob a bank. At the same time zombies have been discovered on a local building site.

So the plan is to go and save their Grandad, played by the brilliant Alan Ford (Bricktop in Snatch), the film is a great ride that rivals and in some cases betters Zombieland, with its little nods to British culture, gun toting foul mouthed pensioners, losers do good, bad people get punished and asks the age old question, who is faster.... an old man on a zimmer frame or a walker?

I saw this film at this years day of the undead and I loved every moment of it. Its a good piece of British cinema. I would highly recommend giving this film a watch, even if you are not a fan of zombie movies, its basically a good comedy.

5/5