Switch to Desktop Site  'The Angels' Share' is an odd mix of
frivolous and socially conscious  'Angels' follows a group of
Glasgow toughs who try to pull off a robbery of high-end
whiskey.   A heist unites social misfits (l. to r.) Mo (Jasmin
Riggins), Rhino (William Ruane), Robbie (Paul Brannigan), and
Albert (Gary Maitland) in ‘The Angels’ Share.’  Sundance Selects
About these ads  The British director Ken Loach has usually gone
in for kitchen-sink realism of the bleakest sort, but he does
occasionally come up for air and make comedies. Of course, a
Loach comedy isn’t the same thing as a Judd Apatow comedy.
Beneath even the most frivolous of his escapades beats the heart
of a thoroughgoing socialist scourge.  “The Angels’ Share,”
about a group of Glasgow toughs who attempt to pull off a
robbery of high-end whiskey in the Highlands, is alternately
delightful and bewildering. The bewilderment exists because
Loach can’t quite let go of his political scruples. There are
sequences in this movie that are as hard