London Film Festival 2018 – First Look Reviews: Bisbee ’17 and Woman At War

Bisbee ‘17Reality, in any sense wider than the confines of the frame, is something cinema can never truly capture. Even in the purest of non-fiction films, there is a starting and stopping point and the question of how the very presence of a camera alters the reality it observes. Robert Greene is a documentarian who isn’t particularly interested in the purity of reality, rather, with Kate Plays Christine and now with Bisbee ‘17, he likes to look at how replaying...

Anti-EU group conducts Brexit poll – and it goes horribly wrong

Administrators that run an anti-EU group on Facebook were left red faced after a poll created to gauge the nation's appetite for leaving the union returned a strong Remain consensus.  The poll, posted on "Nigel Farage - Leave Means Leave", garnered almost a million votes since it was posted on 22nd September. It asked members of the anti-EU group how they would vote in a second referendum "knowing what you know", but returned a shocking outcome.  Some 63 per cent...

Film Review: Skate Kitchen

Having made her debut with stranger than fiction doc The Wolfpack, Crystal Moselle appears to have almost literally stumbled on the genesis of her first fiction feature. She ran in to the all girl skateboarding crew Skate Kitchen on the New York subway and, fascinated by them, bought them coffee and began to hang out with them. This led initially to the short film That One Day and eventually to this film; a blend of fact and fiction with the...

Victim shaming under the spotlight as Trump forced to order FBI to probe Brett Kavanaugh

As Donald Trump is forced to announce that the FBI will (have just a week to) investigate sexual assault allegations against his chosen candidate for Supreme Court Judge Brett Kavanaugh, 90 organisations representing human rights and women have written warning that survivors of abuse should not be subjected to public attacks. The 90 bodies from Amnesty International USA and Equality Now to the College of Law and YWCA USA placed a full page ad in The Washington Post expressing concern about increasingly...

Over 70% of England’s water industry owned by Foreign firms, says study

If Michael Gove is serious about taking back control he must put England’s water back in public hands, says GMB Union Shock findings show that almost three quarters of England’s water industry is currently owned from overseas. At least 71% of shares in England’s nine privatised water companies are owned by organisations from overseas including the super-rich, banks, hedge funds, foreign governments and businesses based in tax havens. The revelations showed the need to end the scandal of water privatisation...

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