I've yet to see
the History Boys, although I've a funny feeling I'll enjoy it. Not sure why but I like school-based dramas - The Breakfast Club, Deat Poets Society et al - maybe its because I spent so little productive time in my own.
This is England looks like being one of the films of the year.
The revue in today's Times: Screen had me looking to sneak out in search of a multiplex; however I fear East Grinstead is similarly endowed to Andy's locale with quality cinema. My options are likely to be
Norbit and
Mr Bean 
Another film featured in James Christopher's round-up may beat both the above to the top of my personal 'must see next' list.
Straightheads promises to be the low-budget Brit-horror I've been waiting for - low on CGI, heavy on the twists, turns and nasty shocks. I'm an unashamed fan of genuinely horrible films, though I prefer them to have a message or at least a script to which the actors - if the piece is blessed with such - conform. Gillian Anderson (
X-Files, the excellent BBC adaptation of
Bleak House) features heavily - no bad thing in my book - alongside Danny 'All In The Game/ Severence' Dyer, a player with whom Glaconman may be familiar. The film is written and directed by Dan Reed. I've not experienced Mr Reed's work before (documentaries mostly), but if the tag lines that adorn the posters are anything to go by - 'brutal', 'disturbing' - I'm in for a treat. And the whole thing cost no more than three an' six to put together; a sure-fire winner.
