Director – Shane Meadows – 2006 – UK – Cert. 18 – 101m A young, pre-teenage lad falls in with a gang of skinheads in Post-Falklands War, Thatcherite Britain – originally published in Third Way in 2007, to coincide with the film’s UK release date The above one line synopsis, although accurate, doesn’t even begin […]
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This is England
- Post author By Jeremy Clarke
- Post date April 20 2025
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