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sjmrheathrow

Joined Jan 2019
Based near Pinewood Studios, John's professional interest in film, started when he translated his articulated lorry driving skills into contract work for Translux in Iver. Hauling accomodation units and sometimes driving a 'gully sucker' he can claim to have delivered location-sleeping trailers for A-list actors and also carried away the 'droppings' after some top quality location shoots.

Eventually, having reviwed films for some fifteen or twenty years, he has used the period of 'lockdown' when even major studios were struggling to function - to shoot his first short film 'The Garden Byrds' will premier at Cannes in 2022.

As you might imagine, the actors have worked (mainly) for 'peanuts' - or on a good day sunflower hearts !

After having a stroke in July 2017, he's only driving a car these days and treasuring time spent working with the 'greens' team at Pinewood, the 'horse people Wales near the Island of Skomer on "Snow White and the Huntsman". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGA1SZwZC7A
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sjmrheathrow's rating
Gone with the Wind
8.28
Gone with the Wind
The Theory of Flight
6.57
The Theory of Flight
Treacle Jr.
6.89
Treacle Jr.
Iris
7.09
Iris
Oh! What a Lovely War
7.08
Oh! What a Lovely War
The Straight Story
8.08
The Straight Story
The Magdalene Sisters
7.79
The Magdalene Sisters
Bloody Sunday
7.69
Bloody Sunday
La La Land
8.08
La La Land
Fire in Grenfell
9
Fire in Grenfell
The Angry Silence
7.28
The Angry Silence
Keeping Faith
7.19
Keeping Faith
Catch-22
7.19
Catch-22
The Firefighter
9
The Firefighter
Fence Short Film
6.79
Fence Short Film
Brassed Off
7.29
Brassed Off
The Cider House Rules
7.410
The Cider House Rules
Walkabout
7.610
Walkabout
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
7.29
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
Meet the Fockers
6.47
Meet the Fockers
Back to the Future
8.58
Back to the Future
Purely Belter
6.78
Purely Belter
The Wrong Box
6.78
The Wrong Box
Duelist
5.87
Duelist
What's Left of You
6.57
What's Left of You

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sjmrheathrow's rating
Bloody Sunday

Bloody Sunday

7.6
9
  • Mar 7, 2019
  • Humbling Story Of Massacre In Derry

    Calvary

    Calvary

    7.4
    9
  • Jan 23, 2019
  • Father, forgive them

    Ill Manors

    Ill Manors

    7.1
    7
  • Jan 23, 2019
  • To The Manner Born, like - Not

    Listen to the narrator's warning at the opening of the film, because a rough and dangerous ride follows as the film unfolds.

    The only reason that I'm able to write a coherent review of the film is because some, but not all, of the subject matter is entirely foreign to me and to most of the people who have been around me for most of my long, adult life.

    The narration is in a foreign language (hip-hop) that I never learned at school, but I'm a quick learner. If you aren't - it'll be hard to work out what's going on in the confused and disjointed lives that confront you - but persevere.. because it will make sense - eventually. Learn the language of the narrator, because he's explaining what's happening as we shift back and forth in time.

    Writer and Director Ben Drew / Plan B presents a shockingly realistic portrayal and insight into the hapless lives of the damaged individuals that we get to know in the course of the story.

    If society, as a whole, has not got the message that comes out loud and clear from the film, it's 'Keep drugs, fireworks, sharp instruments and unloving care-takers away from young children - if you want a happy ending in the longer term'.

    This film charts the everyday outcomes which follow early exposure to forbidden fruit and the inability of people to recover from exposure, later on in life - whether due to premature death or permanent, irreversible psycholgical damage. All the way through it's a long catalogue of unhappy endings without any hope of remission.

    An old story, well-told; dressed up in the newest generation's clothes, sex, drugs and rock and roll.
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