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 ...
Colin Young, 35, burst into a hair salon wearing a mask and demanding cash
Today veteran MP Paul Flynn’s Private Member’s Bill that would have paved the way for Alfie Dingley, 6, who has a sever form of epilepsy and others like him to legally receive the medicinal cannabis they urgently need was filibustered by Tory and Labour MP’s. Speaking outside parliament Newport West ...
They could be deadly
Freedom of Information request revealed last year there were seven instances of children committing sex crimes in Northamptonshire, up two from the previous year