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(The Denver Post) Will is growing up in the early '80s with a single mom obsessed by a repressive religion. He wanders his small-town British woods and doodles elaborately in notebooks, having to sit outside of class during movies because... ... Full Article
Death is the ultimate disappearing act, and it mystifies young Edward (Bill Milner, "Son of Rambow"). A lonely only child living in his parents' struggling old folks home, he studies mortality as if it were a magic trick. ... Full Article
Healy gets heavy
csindy.com –
2009-04-09
Travis, with the Republic Tigers Wednesday, April 15, 8 p.m. Gothic Theatre, 3263 S. Broadway, Englewood Tickets: $30, 16-plus; 877/598-8497, livenation.com . But lately, the plumage has become even more exotic, notes frontman Fran Healy: Honors like celebrated Twilight author... ... Full Article
Movie Review: Son of Rambow
associatedcontent.com –
2009-03-25
It is not everyday you come across a movie that you can say you will remember it forever. I have only a very small collection of such movies, and recently I added a new one to that list of movies... ... Full Article
SON OF RAMBOW: DVD
urbancinefile.com.au –
2009-01-26
Will (Bill Milner) is the young son of a fatherless Plymouth Brethren family; their strict moral code means that Will has never been allowed to mix with the other 'worldlies,' listen to music or watch TV. ... Full Article
A runaway audience smash at the Sundance Film Festival, SON OF RAMBOW is a hilariously fresh and visually inventive take on friendship, family, film heroes and the death-defying adventures of growing up in the video age. ... Full Article
Son of Rambow DVD Film Review: Garth Jennings' Characters Will Proudfoot and Lee Carter Are Stars in the Making
associatedcontent.com –
2008-11-23
Though most of us quake in fear at the thought of teenaged boys left to their own devices, Son of Rambow is, for the most part, a delight, especially, one imagines, for those in the audience old enough to remember,... ... Full Article
Son Of Rambow
theage.com.au –
2008-09-04
Maybe it was Tim Burton's Ed Wood (1994) that launched the modern comic convention of the amateur spectacle, so bad or absurd that it succeeds despite itself as proof that art is a game which everyone can play. ... Full Article
Sly and the family tone
theage.com.au –
2008-09-04
'JUST so you know," whispers Garth Jennings down the phone line from his North London home, "I don't normally speak like a nature photographer narrating a documentary. ... Full Article
Jennings, a music video director whose only other venture into the world of feature film directing was the 2005 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy , considers my complaints that the Son of Rambow is a hard movie to describe. ... Full Article