I Used to Be Famous

"I Used to Be Famous" (2022) is a British music drama you can watch online on iFILM. Director Eddie Sternberg follows Vinnie (Ed Skrein), a former boy band frontman now grinding through London with demo tracks nobody wants to hear. A street encounter with Lion (Leo Long), a teenage drummer with autism, pulls both of them out of wherever they were stuck.

The film doesn't pretend to be anything other than a second-chance story with a feel-good current running through it. What keeps it off the shelf is the two leads: Skrein plays a man marooned in his own past without making it pathetic, and Long's performance gives Lion a full interior life instead of a lesson for someone else to learn. It's a small film that earns its ending. Stream "I Used to Be Famous" (2022) on iFILM.