Goldenballs is the affectionate nickname bestowed on her famous husband by Victoria Beckham, and shared with the world via Michael Parkinson's sofa. And next week, in a special FIFA World Cup edition, the Film Club will be showing Bend It Like Beckham. Appropriately, Beckham makes only a small cameo appearance in archive footage - much like his involvement with the England squad in South Africa...
The movie is charming, and not really a football (oops, I mean soccer) movie as much as it is about diversity - a whole array of cultural and ethnic minorities striving against the status quo to have a voice - phew, that sounds a bit profound. It is actually a good laugh, and was the breakthrough movie for both Parminder Nagra (ER) and Keira Knightly (those Pirate movies...)
Review at ChristianAnswers.net Review at CommonSenseMedia.orgJoin us around 8pm on Saturday 12th for the movie. Or feel free to join us earlier in the afternoon for England v USA - kick off 2pm. If you've never watched a major soccer international, then what better way to start than in a big partisan group cheering their country on...did I hear you ask which country ?
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