The Referees – review
This very diverting film gives us a quasi-telepathic access to the tense, internal world of a group of football refs during Euro 2008They have a strange tendency to run backwards. Why? This documentary on international football referees doesn't say. Bu...
The Great Escape binds England’s footballers to failure | Peter Bradshaw
The film theme music that follows the English national football team should evoke gutsy defiance but it seems to invite defeatI knew it. I think we all knew it: as soon as we heard that music – that terrible, ominous music. The jaunty 4/4 theme float...
Peter Bradshaw on World Cup films
'The World Cup's here. I'm feeling irrelevant'This is a tricky month for film reviewers. The medium on which our livelihood depends, usually so dominant and super-sexy, is now upstaged by the World Cup. Generally, a World Cup-themed film does get relea...
Film review: One Night in Turin
How England's 1990 World Cup hour of agony became the making of the nation. By Peter Bradshaw
Here is the weepie of the week, or perhaps the year. Twenty years on, James Erskine's enjoyable, if slight documentary recalls that extraordinary summer in 1990, when a heartrending defeat for England's gallant...
