Green Street: Limited Edition Sleeve Design (DVD)

Hot on the heels of The Football Factory  comes another attempt at understanding the British thug sub-culture. This time (in an obvious attempt to increase American awareness) Elijah Wood is cast at the centre of it all, playing a Harvard journalism student turned hard-edged football hooligan. Sound ridiculous? It pretty much is. Green Street is not a hugely terrible film, but it is difficult one to take seriously. Matt Buckman (Wood) is wrongfully expelled from College, and jumps abroad a plane to London to visit his sister (Claire Forlani) and husband Steve (Marc Warren). Soon Matt starts hitting the local pubs and going to "Soccer" games with ...  Read the complete review

Think of times where you see people attached to movies that just don’t seem to fit - look at the X-Men 3 movie coming out next year, Vinnie Jones doesn’t seem right as Juggernaut does he? When the Lord of the Rings trilogy was announced I almost choked on my coffee when Sean Bean was announced as Boromir and when I saw the trailers for Green Street I was shocked to see Elijah Wood in a movie about football hooliganism, but the story fits the character and actor so well that its led to a good film, but rather than just saying that, read on. The story follows that of Matt (played by Elijah Wood) who has recently been wrongly expelled from a Journalism course at ...  Read the complete review

The subject of football hooliganism is a thorny one. In recent times there has been the ideal of chav culture in The Football Factory. Previous to that there were films such as I.D and The Firm. Now we have Green Street, a film that must go down as one of 2005’s turkey’s in my book. Matt Buckner (Elijah Wood) is an American student who get’s kicked out of Harvard for a crime he didn’t commit. With not much else going on he escapes to London to stay with his sister. It’s there that he meets his sister’s brother in law, a wideboy by the name of Pete. At first Pete is very hostile, you can tell by his apple and pears cockney accent and general rude manner. But ...  Read the complete review

Green street is a football hooligan film which I love I have all hooligan films in my cabinet,but green street is more of a cheesy type hooligan film. Well for a start the actors ok,but Ellija Wood I think his name is who acted in lord of the rings the American actor who played frodo. This guy is in it and I just cant picture him being a hooligan after his roll in lord of the rings. Anyway about the film Matt aka frodo is threw out of havard university yes harvard. Well it is all down to him allegedley drug dealing. So he moves to London and guess what he gets in with the wrong crowd. So he acts a big man and goes out in the town with these lads drinking and ...  Read the complete review

After "The Firm, Football Factory and I.D" you'd have thought that; "surely no-one can tell the same story" but in another way!, but you'd be wrong, "The Firm" was the yardstick all other films in this genre would be judged by, "I.D" was alright, then "The Football Factory" kinda hammered the final nail on the hooligans film genre and finally "Green Street", well this attended the funeral of these aforementioned films. But I don't want to slate it, as films such as "Frankenstein and Dracula" and other horrors had at least 3-4 various knock off's which were, in there own right, often quite ...  Read the complete review