{"id":38482,"date":"2022-08-07T21:54:49","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T20:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/?p=38482"},"modified":"2022-08-07T21:54:49","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T20:54:49","slug":"the-arts-desk-give-them-wings-film-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/the-arts-desk-give-them-wings-film-review\/","title":{"rendered":"The Arts Desk: Give Them Wings &#8211; Film Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theartsdesk.com\/film\/give-them-wings-review-down-not-out-darlington-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/theartsdesk.com\/film\/give-them-wings-review-down-not-out-darlington-0 noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-38483 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/artsdesk22a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"231\" \/><\/a><strong>Give Them Wings review &#8211; down but not out in Darlington<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Daniel Watson and Toyah Willcox shine as a disabled man and his doughty mam<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Give Them Wings is the biopic of Paul Hodgson, who seven months after he was born in 1965 was diagnosed with meningococcal meningitis. If that wasn\u2019t bad enough, he survived his precarious childhood to become a devout fan of Durham\u2019s hapless Darlington FC \u2013 it\u2019s criminal that this low-budget British indie wasn\u2019t titled Give Them Wingers.<\/p>\n<p>An ex-civil servant and now a screenwriter and producer, Hodgson has spent his life confined to a wheelchair and hampered by a speech impediment. Directed by onetime Bond heavy Sean Cronin (who cast himself as a football thug), the film version of Hodgson\u2019s 2021 memoir isn\u2019t a world-beater, but it is a crowd-pleasing underdog with guts, grit and an admirable streak of unsentimental humour.<\/p>\n<p>Set in the late 1980s, Hodgson\u2019s story of striving unfolds in the drab Northern terrain familiar from early \u201860s realist films, the so-called British New Wave.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at <a href=\"https:\/\/theartsdesk.com\/film\/give-them-wings-review-down-not-out-darlington-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Arts Desk<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Give Them Wings review &#8211; down but not out in Darlington Daniel Watson and Toyah Willcox shine as a disabled man and his doughty mam Give Them Wings is the biopic of Paul Hodgson, who seven months after he was born in 1965 was diagnosed with meningococcal meningitis. If that wasn\u2019t bad enough, he survived [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,27,110],"tags":[1824,1386],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38482"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38484,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38482\/revisions\/38484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}