My Genre Grandeur post for MovieRob – “Coming of Age” movies – Starter for Ten
For this month’s next entry for Genre Grandeur February – Coming of Age movie’s, here’s a review of Starter for 10 (2006) by Emma of EmmaKWall.com
Thanks again to Justine of Justine’s movie blog for choosing this month’s genre.
Next month’s Genre, chosen by Anna of Film Grimoire will be Latin Director movies. To participate, send me your review to latin@movierob.net by 25th Mar. Thanks to Anna for a great and diverse choice.
Let’s see what Emma thought of this movie:
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My chosen film for Genre Grandeur is Starter for 10. Thanks so much to Justine for choosing such a brilliant genre to write about. As soon as I heard what it was I thought it was absolute genius. And of course thanks to Rob for hosting the brilliant GG each month!
Starter for 10 is a 2006 British comedy/drama starring James McAvoy, Alice Eve and Benedict Cumberbatch…
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emmakwall (explains it all) 
Good review. I loved Mark Gatiss as Bamber Gascoigne in this film. he got him completely. But then I am old enough to remember the original!
Best wishes, Pete.
Thanks so much Pete!
I love Mark Gatiss, he’s such a charming man and very clever and he loves horror! I must confess I never knew Bamber first hand from watching UC – I grew up on Paxman 🙂 but I have no doubt that his performance was sterling.
Best wishes to you too!
Emma
How was the link Emma? Was it too revealing, hehe.
Give me a few more days sorry Vinster!!!!!! 😀
Ok, don’t rush, take your time sister.
Thanks brother 🙂
Sing it sister, haha.
Did the raunchy Shameless link work Emma? And if it did, what did you think? hehe.
I haven’t watched it yet Vinster!! Sorry. I was out most of the evening last night.
I will get back to you shortly 🙂
I look forward to your response, hehe.
I promise I will deliver one 🙂
I’ll be waiting with baited breath, hehe.
I won’t make you wait too long then!
I’ll just be waiting in my purple dressing gown. haha.
Haha! I love that dressing gown 🙂
When the dressing gown goes on, I mean business. Only kidding, send me your response to Shameless whenever you can.
Will do 🙂
Hope my link to the clip worked.
All I remember from bits of Shameless is fighting, drugs and a whole lot of shagging going on.
Yeah that’s pretty much it! I liked series 3 and 4 the most, I really loved the Maguire family 🙂 it was a pretty clever program but I do believe it lost it towards the end.
I know that sounds dodgy but all I remember is really everyone shagging almost constantly. I’m sure there’s more to the show than that though.
The violence and swearing probably sticks in my head more than shagging but there was quite a bit!
It was a really clever programme, so well written! It changed quite a bit over the years though, comparing series 1 to series 9 – they’re almost different programs.
But so long as Frank was propping up the bar somewhere, it always was Shameless at heart 🙂
I always seem to remember Carl getting paid by a woman to have almost constant sex with her. Why I remember that is beyond me.
I’m not surprised you remember it!!! 🙂
All I kept thinking during that scene was ‘Carl, you’re one lucky bastard’. haha.
I take it from the comments, you were a fan of Shameless. I caught some of it when it was on but I don’t know I felt about it. Would you advise a rewatch Emma?
Yes definitely! It may still even be free to watch on 4od 🙂
May have to watch it again, if for anything the constant bonking, hehe.
This is true!!!!! I always had a crush on Shane Maguire.
Really, that’s interesting. I knew a girl who always had a thing for Carl. Sorry for the late reply Emma.
One of my friend’s really liked Carl!!
Any particular reason why they liked him?
His body and his stamina I think lol
How very saucy, from what I saw, he was quite the lovemaker in that scene I mentioned earlier, hehe.
Yeah he was! ha ha ha.
Oh so you remember the scene Emma?
I remember a lot!
Oh shame, I was just gonna upload the clip here. Haha, only joking, I wouldn’t want to turn your blog into a smut site.
I think it’s already half way there!
What do you mean Emma? Do you want the clip, hehe.
I preferred Shane Maguire 🙂
So is that a no to the clip? Can’t find any Shane videos for you, sorry.
The clip could be an awards present from me, hehe.
You love this clip!!!!! 🙂
I wouldn’t say I love it, just jealous of Carl and his charm with women, haha.
I’m not it’s his charm they’re after !
He was a good character though. He has a twin brother who’s an actor too, I believe he was in Emmerdale!
Well the woman in the clip got more than just his charm.
The mind boggles!!! O_O
The main thing that stopped me sending you the link was that I thought, Emma’s gonna get some interesting search terms if this goes on her site, haha.
Aww that’s sweet of you to consider that!! I bet I would have some very pervy search terms!!!
Did you find out if the whole of the series was on 4od?
I haven’t checked yet but I will later. Are you sure you don’t want the link, it would give you some funny search terms.
Feel free to send it over Vinster! I might start calling you Vinster? If you don’t mind?!
I think we’ve talked about this clip so much I may as well bloody watch it! 🙂
I don’t mind you calling me Vinster, it’s a good nickname. Here’s the raunchy link,
I’m using my work PC at the moment Vinster so I’ll watch this later if you don’t mind? I will watch it!! Promise!
🙂 🙂 yay Vinster!
Hope it isn’t too raunchy for you Emma. Report back with your opinion when you’ve watched it, hehe.
Yes, Sir!
I will do 🙂 I’ve got Shameless on DVD anyway haha so I must have seen it before at some point. It can be very rude can Shameless!
Definitely rude, will be interesting to see your feedback to it. Could spark another round of innuendo comments, hehe.
Or does your memory need refreshing? haha. *runs to internet and tries to find the scene again*.
Great review Emma, have to agree with what the telltale mind said, McAvoy looks so young in this.
Thanks Vinnie 🙂
Yes he does doesn’t he!!
As the Telltale Mind said in an earlier comment, the first time I saw him was in Shameless.
A coming-of-age movie with James McAvoy and Benedict Cumberbatch and I’ve never heard of it? What is wrong with me?! You’re like my new go-to person for good things I’ve never seen. Well done!
And you’re mine!!!!!
This is just a small little English film, it probably wasn’t a huge movie at the time. In fact I barely ever hear anyone talk about it and if I hadn’t read the book I doubt I would ever have watched it.
It’s on Netflix UK so fingers crossed (I’m crossing my fingers and it’s hard to type) it’s on your Netflix too!!!!!!!
Thanks Justine 🙂 your genre choice was AMAZING! I love these sorts of films so looking forward to more and more recommendations!! And your review of course 🙂
Clam!
I’ll have to go check this out. P.S. Never heard of the thing.
Love Pen
If you watch it Pen, I hope you enjoy it!!!
Love Clam 🙂
Clam – it doesn’t look like one I would enjoy… I’ll live this one through you!
Love Pen
Thanks Em! great review, gotta see this one of these days
You did promise 🙂
I think it’s funny how young McAvoy and Cumberbatch look in this.
Definitely!!! Benedict Cabbagepatch was in this before he got ‘really’ famous!!
McAvoy looks like a teenager!
Did you ever watch Shameless when McAvoy was on it in series 1? He’s really young there. lol
YES!!!!!!!!! I loved Shameless lol. Did you watch it all?
I think he’s still married to the girl from it isn’t he? Fiona the daughter. That’s so cute!
Shameless is one of my favourite shows of all time, maybe even by absolute favourite. And yep, I have seen them all. Such a great show, so funny and brilliant – I could watch them again and again quite easily.
And he is still married to her, though her name escapes me.
Haha excellent!! I loved Shameless too. I thought it got a bit silly towards the end but still good to watch!
I loved the Maguires. I loved them so much!! Paddy Maguire was brilliant and I had a weird crush on Shane!!!! 🙂
Nice to speak to another Shameless fan 🙂 it was pretty underrated really.
On Shane! lol That’s so funny. lol Although I thought Mandy McGuire was cute.
I just liked him!! Lol.
You must have fancied Karen? She was HOT!
NO! It always looked like she had a receding hairline. Couldn’t get past that. Shallow, I know, but….
Lol I do know what you mean actually. She as just such a little minx!
Mandy was nice too 🙂 probably the most normal Maguire!! Oh haha, do you remember Mickey?! He was fantastic!!!
Loved Mickey – so funny. So was Sheila. lol
I love Sheila!!! I guess the more I think about it, I loved them all!!!!!! It really was a great show, never a dull moment! 🙂
True story. Even at the end, the show never failed to entertain. I do wish the Gallagher’s had all returned at the end though.
It should have been written into their contracts they all came back for the final episode….seriously!!!! We invested YEARS into watching Shameless! Only fair afterall 🙂
Yeah I totally agree, even the last series was packed full of fun!
I was pretty sad when it ended. The show could literally have kept going and going, but all good things they say.
I must say I thought the last series or two were a bit weird but it still worked. They just wanted to be slightly more surreal I suppose! But so long as Frank was in it….Shameless could have always gone on and on and on 🙂
I must say my favourite series were 4 – 6 just because of the Maguires!!!!
Mine too!
We’ll have to do a joint review or something? 🙂
That would be cool. I haven’t seen it since it ended though, so it would all be from memory for me. lol
I’m pretty sure you can still watch it on 4od the iplayer, I think they have every series on there! Mind you it’s fun trying to remember it anyway, brings back all the memories!! 🙂