Compact and tightly wound, Times and Measures packs a full drama-thriller arc into a runtime shorter than most features attempt.
What is Times and Measures about?
Kelvin Richards directs this British production, working with a small principal cast led by Daisie Boyes alongside Barney Jones and Thea Knight. The dual billing of drama and thriller points to a film more interested in pressure and consequence between a handful of people than in a sprawling plot or a large ensemble. At 70 minutes, the film sits closer to a chamber piece than a conventional feature, the kind of length that forces a script to earn every scene rather than pad toward a standard runtime. That constraint tends to sharpen performance-driven material, and the three credited leads carry the bulk of the screen time between them. The UK setting and 2020 production place it within a wave of similarly scaled independent British drama-thrillers made on modest means and built around a handful of committed performances rather than scale.
About the cast
Daisie Boyes leads the cast, with Barney Jones and Thea Knight in the other central roles. Three names carry the credited weight of the film, consistent with a story built to run on a small number of performances rather than a wide supporting bench.
Context & significance
Times and Measures arrived in 2020 as part of a steady stream of short-runtime British drama-thrillers, a format that lets independent productions tell a focused story without the budget a longer feature would demand. Its genre pairing of drama and thriller is common ground for UK films working at this scale, where tension tends to build through character and dialogue rather than action set pieces. Director Kelvin Richards works within that tradition here.
Watching Times and Measures on Ktime
K-Time offers the film through a Farsi-language interface, so Persian-speaking viewers can navigate the title's page and their account settings in their own language, while the film itself plays in its original English. A K-Time account login is required to watch, and the page describing the film stays free to read without signing in first.