Tag: Kidulthood
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Noel Clarke: ‘The closest I’ve come to death? A car crash in Utah – it flipped and rolled down a ravine’
The actor, director and screenwriter on loyalty, getting caught short in a shopping centre and losing his hairBorn in London, Noel Clarke, 45, played Mickey Smith in Doctor Who. He wrote and starred in the 2006 film Kidulthood and its sequels, Adulthood and Brotherhood, which he also directed. He stars in Sky One’s Bulletproof and…
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The Last Tree review – tender tale of an uprooted childhood
The story of a British-Nigerian boy growing up in rural Lincolnshire and inner-city London is told with compassion in Shola Amoo’s profoundly moving dramaWriter-director Shola Amoo’s “semi-autobiographical” second feature is an affecting coming-of-age tale pitched somewhere between the sublime American poetry of Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight and the streetwise British grit of Noel Clarke and Menhaj…