“Looking for Eric,” the wonderfully wry new film from British director Ken Loach, is a melancholy comedy about wins and losses in soccer, life and love, and the power of a few pals, a few ...

I only wish it had made me leap up from my seat with a triumphant yahoo. Looking for Eric is notable for a quite jarring mixture of styles, beginning in characteristic Loach fashion as an underdog ...

The Cannes Film Festival's latest contenders are a cinematic odd couple - British director Ken Loach and French soccer legend Eric Cantona, who stars in Loach's festival entry "Looking for Eric." ...

A glance at the poster reveals Looking for Eric has even had the Billy Elliot font bestowed upon it: the typeface that denotes heart-warming triumph over intimidating odds. This being a Loach film ...

Now everything has come full circle: Following a run of serious dramas like The Wind That Shakes The Barley and It’s A Free World…, Loach becomes his own pale imitator with Looking For Eric ...

Article continues below But Looking For Eric, while having its tense moments, is mostly warm-hearted and hilarious. Steve Evets plays postman Eric Bishop, who has a mini-breakdown, drives the ...