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The Sweeney Review

The-Sweeney

Fans of the hit 70s TV series have no fear: Director-writer Nick Love has taken the heart and soul of the iconic characters, Regan and Carter, and given them a cosmetic 2012 facelift, thrusting the chauvinistic, hard-nosed coppers into a contemporary, clinical crime-fighting environment, complete with latter-day baddies. In fact, Love is wise not to [...]




New Chase Sequence Clip from The Sweeney with Ray Winstone & Plan B

The Sweeney poster

Ray Winstone and Ben Drew (a.k.a. Plan B) take the lead in the upcoming remake of The Sweeney, and following a new trailer for the action/crime drama last month, we’ve got a new clip to share, featuring a classic one-liner deliverance from Winstone (and also a four-letter word, so you’re advised not to watch this [...]




First Official Poster for The Sweeney with Ray Winstone and Plan B

The Sweeney poster

Nick Love, well known for writing and directing the likes of The Football Factory and The Firm, is back behind the camera with The Sweeney, based on the original UK ’70s TV programme of the same name. Ray Winstone and Ben Drew (a.k.a. Plan B) take the lead, with the ever-rising talents of Hayley Atwell [...]




Exclusive First Look at Damian Lewis in The Sweeney

Damien Lewis on the Set of The Sweeney

Ok, so these aren’t the most action packed set pics you’ll see this year, but this is the first look at Damian Lewis on set for Nick Love’s big screen adaptation of The Sweeney. Lewis joins Ray Winstone and Ben Drew in the film, which is shooting in London right now, and we’ve seen some [...]




Exclusive Photos Of Ray Winstone On The Set Of The Sweeney

Ray Winstone on Set of The Sweeney

Based on the original 1970s TV show, the film adaptation of The Sweeney has got a brilliant cast of UK stars headed up by Hayley Atwell, Ben Drew (a.k.a. Plan B), and all-time classic London gangster/tough-guy, Ray Winstone. Following on from the first images we saw from the set last month, our very own Colin [...]




New Images of Ray Winstone and Hayley Atwell from the set of The Sweeney

The Sweeney Set 5

Nick Love’s big screen take on The Sweeney is currently shooting in London and so is Ray Winstone, who is seen in these new set pics unloading his gun in the face of some nasty geezer (probably). The Sun bagged the first four pics, the latter two are new and give what I’m sure is [...]




Plan B Cast in Feature Length Version of The Sweeney

The Sweeney - Ray Winstone & Plan B

News broke in the summer last year of a new movie based on classic TV series The Sweeney with Ray Winstone cast as Jack Regan (played originally by the late great John Thaw) but since then it’s been all quiet on the Sweeney front until today! Vertigo Films have just sent us the news that [...]




Ray Winstone Joins “The Sweeney”

Ray Winstone

For those not in the know, The Sweeney was a British police drama from the 1970′s, replacing the sometimes slightly twee and parochial style of earlier British police series such as Z-Cars and Dixon of Dock Green with something a good deal more gritty. The original series dealt with the work of the Flying Squad [...]




Exclusive Interview with Nick Love – Director of The Firm

The Firm Poster

Our roving reporter, Adam Farina has been off interviewing again and this time it’s director of The Firm, Nick Love. Love has previously brought us movies like The Football Factory and The Business, both of which did very well with DVD sales. The Firm is a remake of the Alan Clarke TV movie of the [...]




Review: The Firm

This evening I went along to a preview screening Nick Love’s latest movie, ‘The Firm’. A seemingly shy, reserved but proud Love stood there to introduce the film which he was obviously looking forward to us seeing. The Firm is a remake of the Alan Clarke TV movie of the same name which starred Gary [...]