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this_is_englandI just finished watching this on NetFlix instant viewing, and it was well worth my two hours.  This was a really, really impressive film. The cinematography was fantastic, the acting was spot on, and the storyline flowed with such ease that the movie was over before I realized it. Kudos to director Shane Meadows.  I spent a bit of my high school years friends with a group of skins here in north Jersey, obviously not that I was by any means part of their crew, but I knew enough of them and listened to enough of the music to gain an understanding of what they were all about; I knew enough to say that this film got it right. They weren’t portrayed as a bunch of meathead racists running rampant through the streets, but Continue Reading »