Imagine following the lives of two people for over twenty years.

An oldie but goodie this time.  Lionel Jeffries’s 1970 adaptation of E Nesbit’s Edwardian children’s novel centres on a well-to-do London family torn apart when the children of the title's father, who works at the Foreign office, is arrested on suspicion of treason.

Graham Greene's novel, Brighton Rock, was set in the interwar years of racecourse gangs in Brighton, but in Rowan Joffe's adaptation it has been updated to the early 1960s, a world of running seaside battles between Mods and Rockers.

You would not imagine one film could produce two such different responses!

NEDs, the title of the film is an acronym, which might surprise you; it stands for Non Educated Delinquents.  Surprisingly in a country with free education we need an acronym to describe the people who fall through the gaps.  The film is set in seventies Glasgow (so good luck with the accents oh and the […]