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What I loved about Fish Food was well... everything! Brilliantly shot, great plot and fantastic performances from both actors. It is shot in such a unique way I love the style of the film, well shot. The picture and sound quality is brilliant too.

The two actors keep you hooked on the story as the intensity between the two of them builds and builds. I would love to see more of these two.

Fish Food has a great ending, it is a completely different film to how I thought it was going to be and that is down to the script which is pacey but detailed. A great short.

I saw the pilot for this amazing TV show in 2008, it was incredible. John J Steemson is a Sci-fi God in the making! OK, maybe I'm going a bit too far. However, 'Neglected' is an intelligent sci-fi that is so realistic it is untrue. The effects were amazing but not over-engineered; the dialogue is naturalistic and very believable.

Neglected only uses four actors and there are only four characters in the whole episode, which was a risky move but it completely changes the dynamic of the show and it pays off; big time! The characters are engaging and innovative and the actors all turn in fantastic performances. It's like nothing I have ever seen before. It is a sci-fi that focuses on the characters rather than the effects and that is not an avoidance either. The effects are amazing when they use them so no problem there.

John J Steemson is a brilliant sci-fi director and he proves it in Neglected and I can't wait for his new sci-fi feature film 'Mortifera', which was made last year and comes out on DVD Limited Release in June.

I can't believe Neglected didn't get a series. A real shame! Its critics claimed it was slow paced but I think this was its strength. A sci-fi TV show for people who liked to see good acting and a good script. Perfect!

I have never given a ten out of ten rating for a film but that ended as of last night. Rough Around the Edges was shown at the Sixth Salford Film Festival. A zero budget feature film with tons of laughs and surprisingly a lot of layers too. A northern comedy directored, written and produced by Jim Dickinson. The film is a detailed look at the sometimes messy business of modern society. Involving single mums, pathetic men, back stabbing girls, bent coppers, virgins, a stripper, cabby's, a mystery dead body and a man with a guitar. They all become entangled in an obscure but true to life portrayal of a crazy six days up north.

Clive Cope plays Sergeant Pepper whose old school style leads him to a suspension but even when he is off duty he is still trying to crack the proverbial whip. His next door neighbour, a stripper with a small secret is everything that Pepper detests. The Stripper who plans to cheat his way to victory in a poker tournament at the weekend plans to fleece the clueless taxi drivers who are keeping a dead body with them in the boot of one of their taxis. Then there is the single mother who has an insatiable lust for younger men who has also booked the stripper for Saturday night and then there are the bitchy sixth formers, swapping men and insults whilst the virgins are missing out on all the fun. In the midst of a portable toilet salesman who is attempting to woo his babysitter with the details of his career. I could go on but it would take me forever.

Jim Dickinson's creation is truly hilarious, but it doesn't end there. Dickinson has gone beyond the usually British comedy film by creating a film with interesting visuals and the creation of some amazing characters. It would appear in recent times that a large amount of British films encourage their actors to over act their performances to get the laughs. Dickinson doesn't and it shows. Everyone who watches this film believes the characters and that is the biggest asset of Rough Around the Edges. The characters are layered, not in a complex fashion but in a way that demands the audience to watch on. The characters are amazingly interesting yet these people could quite easily be your neighbours.

Marvyn Dickinson and Clive Cope shine as the two bent coppers. Cope and Dickinson display perfect comic timing and a northern realism that engages the audience into the film and demands them to believe every single word that they speak. Tom McNulty provides another stand out performance as the virgin whose sexual frustration lands him in complete humiliation. McNulty's hilarious performance leaves the audience wanting more from his character and his equally geeky friend. They are both set to make a return in the third instalment of this trilogy and I for one cannot wait.

However crude, rude and downright disgusting at times the film appears it is impossible to fault the film for its vulgarity, because it has to be said that in certain areas this is exactly what British society has become. You know it, I know it and Jim Dickinson clearly knows it better than anyone else.