The Angel\u2019s Share, the new movie written by Paul Laverty and directed by Ken Loach, is kitchen sink meets Ealing comedy meets The Asphalt Jungle.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been told that\u2019s a bit of a mash up, but it\u2019s my story and I\u2019m sticking to it. \u00a0\u00a0The mood is as whimsical as the kilts everyone wears for a disguise (something may sound off there, but trust me, it works).\u00a0\u00a0 The structure is all over the place and would kill a cat (the real plot doesn\u2019t start until almost halfway into the movie).\u00a0\u00a0 And the accents would drive \u2018enry \u2018iggins to drink (Loach often uses subtitles, but manages to make do this time round sans texting).\u00a0 But in the end, I doubt you\u2019ll be disappointed.<\/p>\n
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Loach is one of the leading filmmakers that focuses on the working class and the underprivileged.\u00a0 He\u2019s always shown a great deal of empathy for people who don\u2019t have a lot of options and this movie is no different, though perhaps a bit more light hearted and feel good than usual.\u00a0 The story revolves around Robbie (played by first timer Paul Brannigan who gives a first rate performance) who narrowly avoids jail after severely beating up a young man.\u00a0\u00a0 His girlfriend is pregnant and he wants to turn his life around, but he can\u2019t get a job, his girlfriend\u2019s father wants him out of his daughter\u2019s life, and he\u2019s made an enemy of his victim\u2019s brothers who want to do some serious bodily damage to him in turn.\u00a0 \u00a0As punishment for his crime, he joins a group of characters (with the emphasis on \u201cquite a cast of\u201d) to do community service.<\/p>\n
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His possible salvation comes in the form of whiskey and if you want to make jokes about the Scottish and their love of a wee bit of drink, it\u2019s not what you think.\u00a0 But how this all leads to Robbie discovering he has an expert\u2019s nose for sniffing out quality spirits and a plan to steal a few bottles from a keg of whiskey so old that it gets sold for 1.2 millions pounds at auction, is something you\u2019ll have to find out for yourself.\u00a0 \u00a0And don\u2019t worry about whether you can get behind a group of criminals who are adding theft to their legal resume; one of the cleverest aspects of the screenplay is that you find it impossible to really tsk, tsk these people because anyone who would pay that much for whiskey not only can easily survive without a bottle or two, he actually deserves to be taken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Angel\u2019s Share, the new movie written by Paul Laverty and directed by Ken Loach, is kitchen sink meets Ealing comedy meets The Asphalt Jungle.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been told that\u2019s a bit of a mash up, but it\u2019s my story and I\u2019m sticking to it. \u00a0\u00a0The mood is as whimsical as the kilts everyone wears for […]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[252,254,253,251],"series":[],"class_list":["post-1075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ken-loach","tag-paul-brannigan","tag-paul-laverty","tag-the-angels-share-movie"],"episode_featured_image":false,"episode_player_image":"https:\/\/www.rumblespoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/REAL-Short-Box-New-Logo-FINAL-scaled.jpg","download_link":"","player_link":"","audio_player":false,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"dark","subscribeUrls":{"amazon":{"key":"amazon","url":"","label":"Amazon","class":"amazon","icon":"amazon.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/www.rumblespoon.com\/wp\/feed\/podcast\/the-real-short-box","embedCode":"
Movie Review of The Angel’s Share by Howard Casner<\/a><\/blockquote>