Shirley Valentine (film) seem recycled directly from greeting cards . . . If there is a shred of plausibility in the film, it comes from Bernard Hill's performance as Shirley Valentine's husband. He isn't a bad bloke, just a tired and indifferent one, and when he follows his wife to Greece at the end of the film there are a few moments so truthful that they show up the artifice of the rest." Shirley Valentine (film) Shirley Valentine is an award-winning 1989 British romantic comedy-drama film directed by Lewis Gilbert. The screenplay by Willy Russell is based on his 1986 one-character play of
Blood Brothers (comics) - March 1985). Following appearances in "Quasar" #12 (July 1990), and "" vol. 2, #107 (Dec. 2000), they temporarily switched alliances to aid Earth's superheroes against a common threat in the three-issue miniseries "Maximum Security" (Dec. 2000 - Jan. 2001; first two issues released same month). They were next seen as interplanetary prison escapees on Earth in the four-issue miniseries "Drax the Destroyer" #1-4 (Nov. 2005 - Feb. 2006), where one Blood Brother died. They are unrelated to the high-tech motorcycle gang the "Blood Brothers", seen in "X-51" #10-12 (May–July 2000). The Blood Brothers are large twin ape-like aliens called