By Michael McNulty Released in 1951, Samuel Fuller’s The Steel Helmet was the first Korean War film ever made. Fuller’s third feature, made on a budget of roughly $ 100,000, was a smash hit with audiences and grossed over $ 2 million at the box office. Many a great war...
By Michael McNulty Francis Lee’s debut feature film, God’s Own Country, is a delicate and hopeful love story, an intimate portrayal of a budding romance deep in rural Yorkshire that will likely draw comparisons to Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain. But, there is nothing derivate about this Yorkshire set film. Johnny...
By Michael McNulty For those trying to sex up Philip John’s debut feature, Moon Dogs, comparisons will be made to Alfonso Cuarón’s sexy, impulsive road movie, Y Tu Mama Tambien. This would be a stretch at best. Moon Dogs, backed by Scottish, Irish and Welsh film boards, centres on two...
By Chris Woods In a Bank Holiday match played in front of a 966 crowd, Wealdstone rescued a point for the second time in 48 hours as Dan Fitchett's late strike cancelled out Callum Driver's bundled and hugely controversial effort, against Hemel Hempstead Town at Grosvenor Vale on Monday. Bobby Wilkinson made...
A few years ago when the business was just getting started I was up in Liverpool meeting potential new clients for our private chef business when I received a text. This was late on Wednesday evening. The text was from a acquaintance who is also a private chef. He is...
By Dani Porter Half the fun of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival is in the pot-luck nature of finding shows - the joy, for example, at unexpectedly striking gold (I remain in awe of physical theatre show Giant, 12 months on). The alternative, wading through the thick wad of alphabetically-listed shows for...
Writer David Wilson has penned this moving, angry message that everybody needs to read on the Government's welfare changes that have affected many Brits with disabilities like his son Ben Wilson: By David Wilson The Government don't need a doctor to decide who is disabled. My son, Ben Wilson,...
By Mat McCabe The glass is clearly half empty on the left, a national hero who gave his life for this country is now being judged on his failure to end the slave trade. Some may argue that this isn’t a big deal, but the truth is this situation perfectly...
A total of 18 members from the notorious Birmingham gangs The Burger Bar Boys and Johnson Crew have been made subject to Britain's biggest ever gang injunction. The criminals from two of the UK's most feared gangs have been banned from the city as well as making rap music videos...