Ben Wheatley

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DN SXSW2011: Kill List – Ben Wheatley

By MarBelle ⋅ April 2, 2011 ⋅ 3 comments

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] With his first feature Down Terrace, Ben Wheatley breathed new life into the hackneyed corpse of the British Gangster flick, so Kill List, his take on the horror movie, was always going to top my SXSW must see list. As it’s very possible I could bump into him [...]

DN EP 149: Down Terrace – Ben Wheatley

By MarBelle ⋅ November 28, 2009 ⋅ 4 comments

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Despite the open mind I try to always bring to cinema, I have to admit that the term ‘British gangster film’ makes my heart drop involuntarily as I brace myself for a parade of wide boys with imaginatively descriptive names such as Fingers Charlie, running round with shooters, [...]

Down Terrace – Ben Wheatley

By MarBelle ⋅ November 27, 2009 ⋅ One comment

Down Terrace (2009) Bill and Karl have just got out of jail free but all is not well at Down Terrace. The family business just isn’t working out and Karl’s had more than he can take of his old man’s philosophising and preaching. Karl’s girlfriend is pregnant – by him? Who knows… Either way…a little [...]

Down Terrace

By MarBelle ⋅ November 20, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

When someone uses the words, British, crime and film in the same sentence, my heart often sinks in preparation for a sub-Richie, Mockney’s with shooters onslaught. However Ben Wheatley’s Down Terrace is well deserving of the praise and awards it’s picked up to date and is much more of a study of the pressures of [...]