It always drives me nuts when they cast an American/Canadian for a Brit, Irish, Scots etc. etc. part, when there’s plenty of excellent (and better) actors with the proper accents. I can’t even watch the movies.
Like Dik Van frickin’ Dyke, in Mary Poppins singing, " Step in Toime, Step in Toime, Step in Toime …
Jeez mon!
Funny ol’ world …
Keanu Reeves in Dracula is up there with Dik van Dyck for murdering an English accent
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I’m not sure if I’ve heard anyone do a Brit accent really well. Alice Eve (one of my favs) goes back and forth between Brit and American and you’d never know which one is natural. Brit of course. 
I’m not so sure. His cultural appropriations could seem aspirational for many.
Much like the soap opera “Neighbours” at the same time bringing in Aussie inflections influencing young ambitious English teenagers.
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Sante Sangre - an utterly bonkers film but with a good score.
Grosse Pointe Blank - Good film, awesome soundtrack for people born between 1960 and 1970. The sounds of our youth !
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Great film. Saw it on release in Warsaw …good soundtrack too.
Love both.
Quadrophenia and Tommy
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The Hot Spot Dennis Hopper’s bang average noirish b-movie but with a Jack Nitzsche soundtrack played by Miles Davis and John Lee Hooker plus Taj Mahal (Dennis got them to work together).
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The 1960’s Robinson Crueso theme was brilliant…
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Although the film was good!
Any film (Quadrophenia) that has a young Leslie Ash going to Brighton on a scooter, and (simulating) having a knee trembler in a boarded off alleyway has to have something going for it.
I could take you to the very spot, which is still there…
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I’m a Brightonian so no it well.
Well, alright, but at least buy me a drink first.
(My mother warned me about men like you…)
Good gracious, have I been blind for years to the fact that this is in fact a dating site?
(Now those strange messages that I get from alleged girls allegedly wanting to get jiggy with me begin to make a modicum of sense!)
Well, glory be!
Incidentally, your mother ought also to have warned you that people like me may not necessarily be men.
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I thought that Stefani Germanotta put in a remarkably powerful and affecting performance, alongside Bradley Cooper, in the remake of ‘A Star Is Born’ a few years ago.
She could hardly have been more different from her ultra-polished stage persona, Lady Gaga.