5 Star

Just For The Record.

The Spin, the feel good film of the year is here. Michael Head (Bermondsey Tales: Fall Of The Roman Empire) takes Colin Broderick (Emerald City) and Mark McCausland‘s (original story by) story of two lifelong friends from Tyrone, Ireland. They are down on their luck, but they can see a light at the end of a very long tunnel. The Spin, the best way for your eyes and ears to spend ninety-two minutes.

Dermot (Brenock O’Connor, Game of Thrones (TV Series), Alex Rider (TV Series)) the singer/songwriter and Elvis (Owen Colgan, Bicycle Thieves: Pumped Up, Lulu and the Electric Dreamboat) the man with the most random facts about pretty much anything, run ‘Bone Yard Records’ a shop that everybody else thinks is a key cutting shop or a TV repair shop, and that is why they are down on their luck and four months behind on the rent. This brings the landlord, Sadie (Tara Lynne O’Neill, Becoming Jane, Disco Pigs) to the shop, with an ultimatum. Pay up or move on.

The shop is not the only problem for the lads, as Elvis has just gone through a messy divorce with Tracey (Leah O’Rourke, Derry Girls (TV Series), Half Brothers), and he has a hard time visiting his daughter Lily (Cait Ellis-Gowland) with Tracey’s successful new husband Big Dave (Ian Toner, The Cured, Kat and Alfie: Redwater (TV Mini Series)) around, Elvis being intimidated by the big house and all makes Lily promises that his wallet can’t keep. While Dermot doesn’t really connect with his girl Rose (Maura Higgins, Love Island).

I know, you’ll slaughter me like a sheep.

With just ten days to come up with the back rent, and only a few quid between them, things don’t look good until Dermot spots an offer in the paper, an old man selling records (Barry Devlin). He is selling them for thirty quid, but Dermot recognizes that these records could be worth forty grand at least.

It’s 271 miles to Cork, they don’t have cash, and they don’t have a car.

Watch as this hapless duo try to turn their fortunes around, encountering a man with a stuffed fox (Joe Savino, Braveheart, The Crying Game) a Nun (Claire Malone) and a hiking stripper (Kimberly Wyatt, Starsky & Hutch, 13 Going on 30) on their random travels. It’s all for the craic.