It's not often I say "stop reading solaceincinema and go read this…" but occasionaly I feel inspired to. It's a slow news week and not a lot has been going on so I was trawling through the Toronto film festival reviews over at Twitchfilm. They have a lot of interesting premiers at TIFF and one of the ones I was most interested in was 'This is England', previously titled 'OI! This is England'. The new film from Shane Meadows, the writer director of 'Dead mans shoes' and 'A room for romeo brass', 2 films that if you haven't seen you are sorely missing out, not only on two great films but also seeing the brilliant Paddy Considine in action.

Meadows is one of the best directors working in Britain today, and If I was handing out knighthoods he would get one. The odd thing Is he really should be much bigger than he is, he hasn't made a bad film, and most of his films have been highly critically acclaimed so I find It weird hollywood hasn't come calling. Then again maybe they have and Meadows passed it up, the guy makes very british-centric films and is often compared to directors like Alan Clarke and Ken loach and maybe he's happy with that. He makes the films he wants to make the way he wants to make them.

'This is england' is the story of a group of skinheads in the early 1980's, If you want more information than that check out a couple of the articles I posted before about it, or just go read the glowing review over at Twitch.

Solace will be reviewing 'This is England' next month when it plays as part of the London Film Festival

Read the 'This is England' review at twitchfilm here

Check out a promo reel for the film at the London film festival site here