10 Movies You Didn't Know Were Made In Britain

by Hamish Crawford

1. Moon

Sam Rockwell Moon For all its high-concept pessimism, there€™s something €œjust like Mom used to make€ about Moon. Maybe it€™s director Duncan €œdon€™t call me Zowie Bowie€ Jones, channelling his dad€™s €œSpace Oddity€. It was certainly done the old-fashioned way€”filmed entirely in Shepperton Studios, and using practical modelwork rather than digital animation. Its clinical white-walled moonbase Sarang (a self-contained set courtesy of production designer Tony Noble), improbably-acronymed computer GERTY (Kevin Spacey), and stoic but troubled astronaut Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) all seem to hail from Apollo-era sci-fi. There€™s even €˜soylent€™ in Sarang€™s galley! Screen Shot 2013-05-17 at 10.51.56Giveaway British Character Actor: Matt Berry (Overmeyers), whose deadpan bass tones enlivened, among others, Garth Marenghi€™s Darkplace (2004) and The IT Crowd (2006-2010).
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Hamish Crawford writes fiction more easily than fact. His first volume of short fiction, “A Madhouse, Only With More Elegant Jackets”, was published in 2011 from First Edition Publishing. He has an English degree from the University of Calgary and a Screenwriting M.A. from the University of Westminster, which leaves little space on the wall for his several PhD. rejection letters. His stories and articles have appeared in such publications as NoD and the Cult Britannia website (www.cultbritannia.co.uk). In September he will be speaking at a Doctor Who 50th anniversary conference in Hertfordsire. The owner of far more hats than heads, Hamish currently lives in Canada, and is disappointed that the preceding biography contains so few factual errors. Visit his website: http://hamish-crawford.weebly.com