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He’d just spent a couple of years as DCI Bilborough in the first couple of series of Cracker.

Actually, Chris Eccleston was quite well known too. Keith Allen (Hugo) was quite well known from his time as a member of The Comic Strip and Ken Stott (DI McCall) was “a face” who had done loads of TV work. Nowadays the inclusion of any of that trio would guarantee that, whatever the film, it would be riding high on the publicity bandwagon. And, now, it’s hard to imagine a film directed by Danny Boyle and starring Ewan McGregor and Christopher Eccleston as being unknown. I can’t remember if there was something else on the big screen or I’d already seen whatever was on but I went to see this total unknown. When 1995 rolled around I remember going to the Davenport and buying a ticket for a film called Shallow Grave. Unfortunately this new performance schedule meant that they would turn the lights back on after the adverts and trailers twenty minutes after you’d walked past the bar and concession stand they’d rock up in front of the screen and try and flog ices! 1994 – Shallow Grave…Obi-Wan meets The Doctor

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The intermission used to see the arrival of the cinema staff with illuminated trays full of choc ices, lollies, tubs, and Kia-Ora orange juice. The last time I saw a film with an intermission was a fiftieth anniversary showing of 2001: A Space Oddity. I remember this was an interim period between the old days when a trip to the cinema took up a whole evening and the modern method of twenty minutes of adverts and trailers and straight into the main feature. Download the RunPee app for free: Read more about the RunPee app.