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Exclusive Interview – Ray & Liz star Ella Smith on portraying real life, the Brummie accent and ‘poverty porn’

March 8, 2019 by Tom Beasley

Ray & Liz Ella Smith

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 […]

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Filed Under: Exclusives, Interviews, Movies, Tom Beasley Tagged With: Deirdre Kelly, Ella Smith, Justin Sallinger, Ray & Liz, Richard Billingham

Movie Review – Ray & Liz (2018)

March 7, 2019 by Tom Beasley

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 […]

Filed Under: Movies, Reviews, Tom Beasley Tagged With: Deirdre Kelly, Ella Smith, Joshua Millard-Lloyd, Justin Sallinger, Patrick Romer, Ray & Liz, Richard Billingham, Tony Way

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