Everyone’s favourite diamond geezer, Danny Dyer, is back on the big screen in a brand-new comedy-drama, Marching Powder (at Cineworld cinemas now). The film sees the EastEnders actor team up with director Nick Love for the fifth time, and is about as unsubtle as you might expect from such a partnership, taking the viewer on a rollercoaster ride of drugs, football violence and domestic turmoil.
But what’s it about and why should you go and see it? Here, we bring you the full lowdown on a movie that’s been described as “a rom-com with a kick”.
It's very entertaining
Marching Powder is about a middle-aged football hooligan named Jack (played by Dyer), who resolves to turn his life around after he’s arrested for taking drugs. With his marriage hanging on a thread, his young son crying out for a positive role model, and his wayward stepbrother seeking urgent guidance, there’s a lot at stake. The question is, can our man stay on the straight and narrow, or will he return to his old habits? We won’t give away what happens – suffice to say that the movie is every bit as gritty and as entertaining as we’ve come to expect from the Danny Dyer/Nick Love partnership.
Danny Dyer’s son is in it
The film is something of a family affair, as Danny Dyer is joined on screen by his real-life son, Arty. The 11-year-old – the youngest of Dyer’s three offspring – makes his movie debut playing the son of Dyer’s character, Jack, and the veteran actor is understandably proud. “Little man's in it as well,” he said on his daughter Dani’s podcast, Live and Let Dyers, when the movie was first announced. “Ooh, that's a f****** exclusive, no one knows that. Arty is in it. My son, my actual son and heir. He's so good in it. Yeah, he's brilliant.”
It has a great soundtrack
As often tends to be the case with Nick Love films, the action in Marching Powder is accompanied by some cracking tunes. Over the course of the film, you’ll hear classic cuts from Madness, UB40, Robbie Williams, Bee Gees and many more iconic artists. As for the score, that was composed by Alfie Godfrey, who also worked with Nick Love on the TV series A Town Called Malice.
Director Nick Love has made some cult favourites
Marching Powder is the ninth movie to be both written and directed by Nick Love, and since breaking onto the scene in 1999 with the little-known Love Story, the Londoner has established quite a following with films such as The Football Factory, The Firm and The Business. Now he’s hopeful that Marching Powder will be similarly well received. Appearing alongside Dyer on BBC Breakfast earlier this month, he said: “What our MO is, we don’t claim to be amazing filmmakers, but me and Danny have always said that we’re interested in making non-patronising entertainment for the working classes.”
It’s got some positive reviews on IMDB
A quick scan of movie website IMDB reveals that there are a number of people praising this new movie. One viewer said of Marching Powder: “The humour is coarse, and often fairly savage, but I laughed out loud a number of times, and that doesn't happen very often.” Another hailed the screenplay, commenting: “Love's script takes a fun stab at British politics, mixing satire with serious undertones about a fading subculture.” And a third reviewer was particularly impressed by the climax of the movie: “The films story may not be unique, but it's good stuff all round & has a decent ending to say the least!”
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