Two years ago Leicester's Paul Tucker had his play, The Last Yellow, turned into a film. Not to be outdone, Paul's brother Joe has taken the same plot and directed his own version. Both were inspired by the time Joe nearly got a pummelling in a pub from a drunken squaddie for beating his bird at pool. Yellow ended up as a rueful comedy about fantasy and revenge, but Lava is a different kettle of fish - - a bleak, bloody gangster caper which makes Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels look positively restrained and gentle.
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