Spike Island 2012 Watch Free in HD

Teenage musicians travel to England's Spike Island in the hope of attending an outdoor performance by their favorite band, the Stone Roses. and at the same time, hatch a plan to hand-deliver their demo tape to their idols.

Genre:

Musical, Drama

Actors:

Elliott Tittensor, Nico Mirallegro, Adam Long, Jordan Murphy, Oliver Heald, Emilia Clarke, Orla Poole, Antonia Thomas, Robert James-Collier, Philip Jackson, Lesley Manville, ...»

Director:

Mat Whitecross

Country:

United Kingdom

Release:

2012

IMDb:

6.3

Quality:

Duration:

105 min

Variety

[The Stone Roses'] debut long player is one of the few rock albums that might justly be assessed all killer, no filler; Whitecross and Coghill's sincerely intended love letter to the era, not so much.

May 04, 2015

Resource

London Evening Standard

The piece as a whole gets bogged down in rites-of-passage cliches and, ultimately, seems out of time.

June 22, 2013

Resource

Times (UK)

Spike Island has plenty of feckless, disorganised charm.

May 04, 2015

Resource

Hollywood Reporter

The film has an engagingly zippy and colorful visual style, evoking the splashy Summer of Love motifs around the Roses, with allusions to their music videos and paint-splattered, Jackson Pollock-esque sleeve artwork.

May 04, 2015

Resource

Shadows on the Wall

The filmmakers botch the story with a fragmented script and harshly edited scenes that prevent us from properly engaging with anything that happens.

June 27, 2013

Resource

IGN Movies

Good gags, great performances and a spectacular soundtrack rescue an otherwise average coming-of-age drama.

May 04, 2015

Resource

Screen International

[Director Whitecross has an] uncanny visual ability with music sequences as the film joyously skips through a pitch-perfect Madchester soundtrack.

May 04, 2015

Time Out

None of this ever feels remotely honest or real.

June 18, 2013

Resource

Sacramento News & Review

Taking its cue from the sort of pandering nostalgia that usually gets peddled to Baby Boomers, Mat Whitecross' irritating Spike Island follows a teenage gang of the Stone Roses' superfans in 1990 Manchester.

May 30, 2015

Resource

Observer (UK)

Whitecross clearly has both an eye and ear for the rarefied nuances of pop culture ...

June 22, 2013

Resource

Independent (UK)

The heady whirl of the Roses' first album played loud is a treat -- the only one.

May 04, 2015

Resource

Los Angeles Times

Though the story is drawn in broad strokes and overloaded with melodrama, director Mat Whitecross' exuberant feature understands the communal joy and personal necessity of rock 'n' roll.

May 07, 2015

Resource

Watch Spike Island

Oops...

Something went wrong.

Try again later.

Feedback about this page?