Tom Beasley talks to actor Justin Salinger about his role as half of the titular couple in Richard Billingham’s British drama Ray & Liz… Arriving in UK cinemas this weekend in a cloud of acrid cigarette smoke, Richard Billingham’s Ray & Liz stands out from the pack. Billingham’s debut feature sees him directing a vision […]
Exclusive Interview – Ray & Liz star Ella Smith on portraying real life, the Brummie accent and ‘poverty porn’
Tom Beasley chats to actress Ella Smith about portraying a larger than life matriarch in Richard Billingham’s autobiographical British drama Ray & Liz… This week, the working class West Midlands of Thatcher’s Britain comes to the big screen in Ray & Liz. Writer-director Richard Billingham adapts stories from his own poverty-stricken childhood in his first […]
Movie Review – Ray & Liz (2018)
Ray & Liz, 2018. Written and directed by Richard Billingham. Starring Ella Smith, Justin Sallinger, Patrick Romer, Tony Way, Sam Gittins, Joshua Millard-Lloyd and Deirdre Kelly. SYNOPSIS: A poverty-stricken family living in the Black Country during the 1980s struggles with the constant spectre of financial peril. From the very first shots of photographer turned filmmaker […]
Glasgow Film Festival 2019 Review – Ray & Liz
Ray & Liz, 2018. Directed by Richard Billingham. Starring Ella Smith, Justin Salinger, Patrick Romer, and Tony Way. SYNOPSIS: Just outside of Birmingham, Ray and Liz struggle to survive and raise their sons, including future photographer Richard Billingham. Richard and his brother Dean do all they can to fend for themselves, despite their situational poverty […]
Blu-ray Review – The Voices (2014)
The Voices, 2014. Directed by Marjane Satrapi. Starring Ryan Reynolds, Gemma Arterton, Anna Kendrick, Jacki Weaver, Ella Smith and Stanley Townsend. SYNOPSIS: A mentally unstable factory worker believes his pets are talking to him and starts to take their less-than-savoury advice in order to pursue the object of his affections. Ryan Reynolds is one of […]
