Countdown to the Big Time ; Filmmaker and Doctor Who Graduate Noel Clarke Is Back with His Third Movie. But Despite the Fact He's the Brains Behind an Ultra-Slick Thriller Celebrating Strong Women, Rob Driscoll Finds a Family Guy Torn Between His Home Life and a Love of Cinema

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STANDING in New York's Times Square shouting "Cut!" while shooting his own movie has been another pinch-me moment in the fast- rising career of British actor-writer-director Noel Clarke, once best known as a Doctor Who sidekick.

The success of his two gritty "street" movies Kidulthood (2005) and Adulthood (2008) launched him as one of the most in-demand British film-makers of his generation, and last year he won the Bafta Rising Star Award.

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Countdown to the Big Time ; Filmmaker and Doctor Who Graduate Noel Clarke Is Back with His Third Movie. But Despite the Fact He's the Brains Behind an Ultra-Slick Thriller Celebrating Strong Women, Rob Driscoll Finds a Family Guy Torn Between His Home Life and a Love of Cinema

Now, however, he's gone one further by helming a much slicker and more accessible kind of movie - girl-power comedythriller 4.3.2.1 - that sums up what he's really aiming for these days; an entertaining night out at the cinema.

"This is definitely a more commercial film for me - and not just another Britis...

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