The Low Down

Music video director Jamie Thraves made his feature debut with this cinema verite look at a group of bohemian Londoners straddling the line between apathy and ambition. Aidan Gillen (of the popular British TV series Queer As Folk) plays Frank, a prop artist who spends his free time chain-smoking, ...more

Another small gem unearthed by the indispensable Shooting Gallery Film Series, this extremely well-acted look at a loose-knit group of English fringe dwellers is exactly the type of material one can see being cheapened by sub-moronic Hollywood filmmakers, but here it looks and sounds just right. The movie is hardly a groundbreaking addition to the legion of slacker flicks that surfaced in the 1990s and on into the next century, but writer/director Jamie Thraves employs a keen sense of control on ...more