Mercedes Grower
Brakes is now available to pre-order on DVD. Mercedes Grower’s anti-romcom, following nine couples from the end of their relationships to the start, boasts a fantastic comedy cast including Noel Fielding, Julian Barratt, Julia Davis, Steve Oram and Seb Cardinal. If you would like to see the
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January 29, 2018 // 0 Comments
Brakes, a new feature film from Mercedes Grower, will be hitting a select group of cinemas during the coming weeks, including an opening night in London this Friday. A few days ago we spoke to Mercedes about the film. Mog reports: If you’re a regular reader of The Velvet Onion you’ll be
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November 22, 2017 // 0 Comments
A new trailer for Brakes has been released and more screening/Q&A dates have been announced. Mercedes Grower’s anti-romcom, following nine couples from the end of their relationships to the start, boasts a fantastic comedy cast including Noel Fielding, Julian Barratt, Julia Davis,
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November 17, 2017 // 0 Comments
Brakes, the brilliant back-to-front movie about relationships which features a smorgasbord of TVO talent, will be coming to our cinema screens soon, accompanied by cast Q&As. Described as an “anti-rom com”, and produced with a wonderful punk aesthetic, Brakes features fantastic
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October 27, 2017 // 1 Comment
The 6th annual LOCO Comedy Film Festival is coming to London in May 2017, with several TVO-connected films on the bill… Mindhorn + Q&A with filmmakers and cast Friday 5th May at 8.45pm In this comedy film from the minds of Julian Barratt and Simon Farnaby, has-been actor Richard
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March 27, 2017 // 0 Comments
John Hopkins formed part of the iconic Ealing Live comedy troupe, who we tend to think of as the artistic core of The Velvet Onion. Since then he’s continued to work with multiple offshoots of the TVO family. Recently, we’ve been focusing on his newest work – his web series
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September 14, 2016 // 2 Comments
Brakes, the first feature film from Mercedes Grower, which features a cast populated by TVO-connected artists, has received a special commendation from the jury at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Brakes, which explores the endings and beginnings of different relationships, stars
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July 15, 2016 // 0 Comments
Brakes, the new feature film by Mercedes Grower, enjoyed its world premier at the Edinburgh Film Festival last weekend. For anyone who’s missed its recent buzz, Brakes is an new indie film with an impressive cast of TVO-connected faces and British acting talent. It’s often dark,
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June 21, 2016 // 0 Comments
Brakes, the new film by Mercedes Grower premiers tomorrow, Friday 17th June, at the Edinburgh Film Festival. The film carries the torch previously held by Steve Oram‘s Aaaaaaaah! and Gareth Tunley‘s The Ghoul, in that it includes a bevy of TVO-connected talent. This makes us very
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June 16, 2016 // 0 Comments
Brakes, the debut feature film by Mercedes Grower which features a whole host of TVO talent, will be screening at the Edinburgh International Film festival in June. The dark comedy traces the emotionally heightened pivot points at the end and beginning of nine different relationships. Four years
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May 25, 2016 // 0 Comments
Earlier this week we caught up with actress and film maker, Mercedes Grower. She’s phenomenally well-connected to the web of creative people who we write about, and we’ll be bringing you more about the work that she’s doing in due course (including news of a really exciting
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February 8, 2015 // 0 Comments
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