ESSENTIAL round-up of Shane Meadows' best work - in other words, his entire feature film output minus Once Upon a Time in the Midlands.
TwentyFourSeven, his 1997 debut is a bold and eloquent denouncement of Thatcherism's social legacy.
A Room For Romeo Brass (1999) is an equally compelling rites of passage story as two teenage boys make their way in a world that seems even more scary when they befriend a volatile stranger.
The set is completed by recent release This Is England (2007) and Dead Man's Shoes (2005) is the audacious, terrifying story of revenge and redemption in which Considine turns in a searing performance.
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