Craig Parkinson

Joe is a bored teenager, living in Stoke in the 1970s. After a chance encounter with an icily beautiful hairdresser he becomes desperate to impress, he discovers soul music and...

Oh boy, this is one of the blackest of black comedies, and it's bang up to the minute in addressing contemporary issues regarding multiculturalism and religious fundamentalism.

Last time a news story broke about a child dying as a result of abuse or neglect, and the tabloids shrieked about how social workers had failed in the line...

You have to pat yourself on the back sometimes. I’m one of the first to have a go at the British film industry for the lame rom-com dross or OTT...