The greatest films set in the 80s!

This film was really great, brilliantly heart-warming and the two main boys played their roles excellently. I was really impressed with it's childish naivity and was drawn to a really sweet conclusion. The religious prospect of things could perhaps have been embellished slightly to make things more dramatic but perhaps that would override the film's original intentions. Brilliant!

James Mcavoy makes what should've been a mediocre college movie into something a little more special. The script is quite amusing at times but it is the actors (bar catherine tate..eurgh) that give the movie it's charisma. A cracking soundtrack too helps the 80s setting come alive.

This is an excellent film that has an incredibly poignant social commentary on Thatcher's Britain. Shaun is a little boy who's father has died in the war that he so despises. So when a bunch of skinheads pick him up off the streets, Shaun's underlying disgust for the reason his father died leads him into a war between two social groups.

Nothing to do with Jake Gylenhall looking rather handsome in it, but his acting and emotion he puts into his intelligent but overall disturbed character is often compelling viewing. With a storyline spaning many a fansite ramsacked with endless theories as to what it's 'really about' - the story is one that needs thinking about alot - and with a horror twist with that ghastly rabbit...

I love all these films set in the 80s - and I absolutely adored the entire casting. But I just felt that this film could've embellished its 80s background and the characters a lot more. As far as 80's working class coming of age films go..I'd still watch Starter for Ten, but maybe I should give it another watch!

A very intense musical biopic of Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis. It is a very poignant look at the troubled star but paints on his vivid and creative personality more than his psychological problems that he is probably more known for. A very endearing film with some amazing performances - especially Samantha Morton. And there is still some humour too with the tour manager, but overall it is quite gloomy isn't it? But at least it makes an effect.