Billy Elliot (2000)

A young boy called Billy Elliot (Jamie Bell) is torn between his love of dancing and family expectations during the miners’ strike in the early 1980s. It also stars Gary Lewis as Billy’s father, and Julie Walters as Mrs Wilkinson, Billy’s dance teacher. I remember that I watched some of this film when I was […]

The FULL MONTY (1997)

A group of unemployed steel workers, consisting of Gaz (Robert Carlisle), Dave (Mark Addy), Guy (Hugo Speer), Horse (Paul Barber), Lomper (Steve Huison), and Gerald (the late Tom Wilkinson) form a striptease act. The Full Monty is one of the humblest films that I’ve ever seen, and it doesn’t try to be anything that it […]