After a frustratingly long period of absence, Lynne Ramsey (We Need To Talk About Kevin, 2011) is back with an equally gut-wrenching tale of crime and retribution which is set to thrill the Scottish director’s growing army fans. Based on Jonathan Ames’ novel of the same name, You Were Never ...
Lynda Lang began her career in 1987 after a chance encounter with an old school friend who was training to be a sergeant.
A newspaper in a city with prominent links to slavery has issued an apology after running a controversial front page more than two decades ago. The Bristol Post's 1996 splash - headlined 'Faces of Evil' - includes 16 mugshots of black men jailed for dealing crack cocaine in the city. ...
By Dr Roger Cottrell “But make no mistake, the sky will fall in” -Harry Perkins in “A Very British Coup,” Channel 4, 1988. A week is reputedly a long time in politics. Looking at the seven-day time span that began, on February 16, 2018, it at times seemed (for ...
John McNaughton couldn’t have made a more auspicious debut film than he did with 1986’s Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer. An unforgiving, punishingly hopeless insight into the mind and crimes of a serial murderer, the film was well received at festivals in 1986 but struggled to find a distributor, ...
We are almost at that time of year when the press office teams at the, increasingly corporate, food bank operators pump out the annual reports and latest figures for the millions who were helped by their food bank operation in 2017 .Their figure will give the main stream news the ...
This week marks six months since the Myanmar military resumed its ruthless crackdown against the country’s Rohingya people. Many women and girls fleeing brutal state sponsored persecution have reported horrific accounts of rape, sexual assault, torture and murder at the hands of government forces. When state institutions orchestrate such human ...
Say what one will about genre fiction, usually expressed with a long-nosed sniff of disdain while ice cubes clink against the side of a swirled glass, yet it remains true that thousands, even tens of thousands of readers will derive much more enjoyment from the latest ‘dead body staining the ...
In 1993, Falling Down probably looked like a reaction to the LA riots, events which had in fact happened during its shooting and forced it to move and delay certain scenes. Today it’s a strange watch; of its time in casting as much as politics, but those politics can also ...