FILM...

Sat 8th Oct 7.45pm: FISHERMAN’S FRIENDS (12A) UK 2019 112mins, dir Chris Foggin.

Cast: Tuppence Middleton, James Purefoy, Christopher Villiers, Daniel Mays, Noel Clarke, Christian Brassington. ‘This is an origin story of sorts for the ten singers who later made the biggest selling traditional folk album of all time… In 2010, a group of rugged fishermen carved out their own anachronistic moment in pop music lore, as the copyright-free folk songs sung by Fisherman’s Friends placed them at the Top 10 charts in the UK… here’s a movie that doubles down on the city vs. country culture clash, and dares you to look at the fishermen’s scraggly faces and knit sweaters, and listen to their five-part harmonies, or see the endless amount of happy people in town, and not wish that you were among them.’ Nick Allen, rogerebert.com