There is always a danger when television executives – who live, predominantly, in four-bedroom London townhouses, picking up oat milk flat whites before electric bicycling their way into Soho – decide to depict the lives of working-class northerners. That jeopardy is on full display in ITV’s five-part true crime thriller, The Walk-In, a look at the rise of the National Action terror group in the wake of the murder of MP Jo Cox. Thankfully, this gritty, disturbing drama manages to squeeze pathos out of one of the most troubling stories in recent British history.
Is there a better actor working in British television, right now, than Stephen Graham? After last year’s one-two punch of Time and Help (not to mention The North Water and Peaky Blinders), Graham returns to screens as Matthew Collins, a far-right activist turned antifascist campaigner and journalist. It is a role that suits Graham down to...
Is there a better actor working in British television, right now, than Stephen Graham? After last year’s one-two punch of Time and Help (not to mention The North Water and Peaky Blinders), Graham returns to screens as Matthew Collins, a far-right activist turned antifascist campaigner and journalist. It is a role that suits Graham down to...
- 10/3/2022
- by Nick Hilton
- The Independent - TV
There is always a danger when television executives – who live, predominantly, in four-bedroom London townhouses, picking up oat milk flat whites before electric bicycling their way into Soho – decide to depict the lives of working-class northerners. That jeopardy is on full display in ITV’s five-part true crime thriller, The Walk-In, a look at the rise of the National Action terror group in the wake of the murder of MP Jo Cox. Thankfully, this gritty, disturbing drama manages to squeeze pathos out of one of the most troubling stories in recent British history.
Is there a better actor working in British television, right now, than Stephen Graham? After last year’s one-two punch of Time and Help (not to mention The North Water and Peaky Blinders), Graham returns to screens as Matthew Collins, a far-right activist turned antifascist campaigner and journalist. It is a role that suits Graham down to...
Is there a better actor working in British television, right now, than Stephen Graham? After last year’s one-two punch of Time and Help (not to mention The North Water and Peaky Blinders), Graham returns to screens as Matthew Collins, a far-right activist turned antifascist campaigner and journalist. It is a role that suits Graham down to...
- 10/3/2022
- by Nick Hilton
- The Independent - TV
Disney’s president of film production Sean Bailey defended the controversial credits for the new live-action “Mulan” film, which thanked Chinese government entities directly involved in perpetuating human rights abuses in Xinjiang, as being part of “standard practice across the film industry worldwide,” according to a letter addressed to and posted online by prominent British politician Iain Duncan Smith.
Disney's corporate policy does not appear to care about the human rights issues affecting the #Uighurs. It seems human rights come second to the corporate policy of not upsetting China. (2/2) pic.twitter.com/3wXVQLuVOf
— Iain Duncan Smith MP (@MPIainDS) October 8, 2020
The choice to film in the region was made for reasons of “authenticity,” Bailey explained.
Disney made global headlines when “Mulan,” released to its Disney+ platform on Sept. 4, gave “special thanks” during the film’s end credits to eight different Chinese government departments in Xinjiang, a number of which are directly...
Disney's corporate policy does not appear to care about the human rights issues affecting the #Uighurs. It seems human rights come second to the corporate policy of not upsetting China. (2/2) pic.twitter.com/3wXVQLuVOf
— Iain Duncan Smith MP (@MPIainDS) October 8, 2020
The choice to film in the region was made for reasons of “authenticity,” Bailey explained.
Disney made global headlines when “Mulan,” released to its Disney+ platform on Sept. 4, gave “special thanks” during the film’s end credits to eight different Chinese government departments in Xinjiang, a number of which are directly...
- 10/9/2020
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
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So, it seems to be time once again to ask that age-old question: what’s your favourite cinematic depiction of conjoined twins? Ranging from the mutoid majesty of That Guy In Total Recall With The Talking Stomach Baby through to the Farrelly brothers’ gross-out gubbins Stuck On You, Hollywood has carved a progressive path in its depiction of wretched freaks of nature, magical otherworldly beings and monstrous killers. Following in this glorious tradition of stigmatising the disabled (insert Iain Duncan Smith reference here), this month sees the Bluray release of Frank Henenlotter’s classic splatter comedy Basket Case trilogy.
The director of the equally subtle Frankenhooker cut his teeth with his 1982 cult favourite Basket Case, which told the tale of the Bradley brothers, bemulleted Duane (Kevin van Hentenryck), the ostensibly ’normal...
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Our monthly round up of horror DVDs and Blu-rays, led by the wonderful and terrifying Audition...
So, it seems to be time once again to ask that age-old question: what’s your favourite cinematic depiction of conjoined twins? Ranging from the mutoid majesty of That Guy In Total Recall With The Talking Stomach Baby through to the Farrelly brothers’ gross-out gubbins Stuck On You, Hollywood has carved a progressive path in its depiction of wretched freaks of nature, magical otherworldly beings and monstrous killers. Following in this glorious tradition of stigmatising the disabled (insert Iain Duncan Smith reference here), this month sees the Bluray release of Frank Henenlotter’s classic splatter comedy Basket Case trilogy.
The director of the equally subtle Frankenhooker cut his teeth with his 1982 cult favourite Basket Case, which told the tale of the Bradley brothers, bemulleted Duane (Kevin van Hentenryck), the ostensibly ’normal...
- 3/15/2016
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
The rebranding of sulky-drawers Murray got off to an unpromising start, while a timely reminder of workhouse inhumanities made powerful viewing
Andy Murray: The Man Behind the Racquet (BBC1) | iPlayer
Secrets from the Workhouse (ITV) | ITV Player
Hannibal (Sky Living)
India: A Dangerous Place to Be a Woman (BBC3) | iPlayer
Andy Murray - The Man Behind the Racquet seemed to be part of the ongoing drive to reframe Murray, from number two-seeded, Us Open-winning, sulky-drawers face-ache, to someone, well, nicer, or at least more marketable.
Presented by Sue Barker in the wistful preoccupied way of a woman who finds it hard to forget how fine Jimmy Connors once looked in his tight white shorts, it wasn't entirely unconvincing. Though I'm still not persuaded that crying because you've lost a Wimbledon final means you're any "nicer" than you were before you became publicly emotionally incontinent. Nor am I convinced that...
Andy Murray: The Man Behind the Racquet (BBC1) | iPlayer
Secrets from the Workhouse (ITV) | ITV Player
Hannibal (Sky Living)
India: A Dangerous Place to Be a Woman (BBC3) | iPlayer
Andy Murray - The Man Behind the Racquet seemed to be part of the ongoing drive to reframe Murray, from number two-seeded, Us Open-winning, sulky-drawers face-ache, to someone, well, nicer, or at least more marketable.
Presented by Sue Barker in the wistful preoccupied way of a woman who finds it hard to forget how fine Jimmy Connors once looked in his tight white shorts, it wasn't entirely unconvincing. Though I'm still not persuaded that crying because you've lost a Wimbledon final means you're any "nicer" than you were before you became publicly emotionally incontinent. Nor am I convinced that...
- 6/29/2013
- by Barbara Ellen, Tim Henman
- The Guardian - Film News
Nothing published in newspapers now can change Lord Justice Leveson's mind. His report is with the printers and will be published on Thursday.
But newspaper editors, aware that the final decision on his recommendations will be taken in parliament, know that MPs - and especially the prime minister - are susceptible to pressure.
Therefore, yesterday's Sunday papers were full of dire warnings about the likely threat to press freedom should Leveson dare to suggest that a reformed system of regulation include any statutory element.
There were news stories, feature articles, columns, editorials and various adverts in the name of the Free Speech Network with the slogan: "Say No to state regulation of the press."
By far the most interesting contribution was the Mail on Sunday splash, which reported that David Cameron will resist any call to legislate on press regulation.
Citing "well-placed sources", political editor Simon Walters wrote that Cameron...
But newspaper editors, aware that the final decision on his recommendations will be taken in parliament, know that MPs - and especially the prime minister - are susceptible to pressure.
Therefore, yesterday's Sunday papers were full of dire warnings about the likely threat to press freedom should Leveson dare to suggest that a reformed system of regulation include any statutory element.
There were news stories, feature articles, columns, editorials and various adverts in the name of the Free Speech Network with the slogan: "Say No to state regulation of the press."
By far the most interesting contribution was the Mail on Sunday splash, which reported that David Cameron will resist any call to legislate on press regulation.
Citing "well-placed sources", political editor Simon Walters wrote that Cameron...
- 11/26/2012
- by Roy Greenslade
- The Guardian - Film News
Us censors' decision to give Christopher Nolan's latest Batman film a PG-13 rating is likely to translate into a 12A in the UK
The most recent Batman film, The Dark Knight, was the subject of much dispute in the UK in 2008 after being handed a 12A certificate despite its powerful adult themes. Now it looks like the debate over cinema ratings is likely to begin all over again for Christopher Nolan's follow-up, The Dark Knight Rises after the final film in the British director's Batman trilogy was given a PG-13 rating in the Us.
The rating from the Motion Picture Association of America will almost certainly translate into another 12A in the UK. The Us censors say Nolan's film features "intense sequences of violence and action, some sensuality and language". A PG-13 will allow anyone over the age of 12 into the film in the Us, increasing its chances of box-office glory.
The most recent Batman film, The Dark Knight, was the subject of much dispute in the UK in 2008 after being handed a 12A certificate despite its powerful adult themes. Now it looks like the debate over cinema ratings is likely to begin all over again for Christopher Nolan's follow-up, The Dark Knight Rises after the final film in the British director's Batman trilogy was given a PG-13 rating in the Us.
The rating from the Motion Picture Association of America will almost certainly translate into another 12A in the UK. The Us censors say Nolan's film features "intense sequences of violence and action, some sensuality and language". A PG-13 will allow anyone over the age of 12 into the film in the Us, increasing its chances of box-office glory.
- 4/10/2012
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
Phyllida Lloyd's Margaret Thatcher biopic has proved so infuriating to so many by insisting on the humanity of the Tories
Those of a leftist persuasion sometimes like to demonise their opponents. Famously, Aneurin Bevan considered all Tories "lower than vermin". Margaret Thatcher seems to rank even lower than that. On the Guardian site alone, discussion of the current biopic has seen her termed a "vile hateful witch", a "nasty spoilt bitch" and "an evil, evil woman". In less elevated forums, even blunter assessments have been offered.
So it's understandable that Meryl Streep's interpretation has displeased the Baroness's critics as much as her admirers. Like many earlier screen treatments of the Thatcher saga, The Iron Lady is disobligingly reluctant to monster its subject. This time, she's presented not just as fully human but as really quite appealing.
Naturally, the depiction of her current affliction inspires sympathy, yet it's the...
Those of a leftist persuasion sometimes like to demonise their opponents. Famously, Aneurin Bevan considered all Tories "lower than vermin". Margaret Thatcher seems to rank even lower than that. On the Guardian site alone, discussion of the current biopic has seen her termed a "vile hateful witch", a "nasty spoilt bitch" and "an evil, evil woman". In less elevated forums, even blunter assessments have been offered.
So it's understandable that Meryl Streep's interpretation has displeased the Baroness's critics as much as her admirers. Like many earlier screen treatments of the Thatcher saga, The Iron Lady is disobligingly reluctant to monster its subject. This time, she's presented not just as fully human but as really quite appealing.
Naturally, the depiction of her current affliction inspires sympathy, yet it's the...
- 1/9/2012
- by David Cox
- The Guardian - Film News
Work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith has claimed that Britain's celebrity culture fuelled the summer riots. Duncan Smith, who is chair of the social justice cabinet committee, told The Guardian that our society's "get rich quick" attitude was partly to blame for the unrest experienced in UK cities in August. "If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, 'This is the way you want to be'. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people," he said. "Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is The X Factor. Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. We do not celebrate people who have made success out of (more)...
- 12/10/2011
- by By Colin Daniels
- Digital Spy
• Andrew Lansley's interviews on NHS data sharing deal
• Lunchtime summary
• David Cameron on the Merkel/Sarkozy EU plan
• Afternoon summary
9.00am: It's a big day for Europe. Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy are meeting to thrash out details of a plan that could set up a fiscal union in Europe and may (or may not) lead to some sort of resolution of the debt crisis. But this blog - like the UK - is sitting on the sidelines. My colleague Alex Hawkes will be covering the Merkozy meeting on the business live blog. And I'll be covering events at Westminster, where the most lively before 4pm will be Leveson - The Sequel, a star-studded committee hearing featuring Hugh Grant, Steve Coogan and Max Mosley who may well spend an hour telling MPs and peers exactly what they told Leveson.
Here's the diary for the day.
10am: Ed Miliband will campaign in Feltham and Heston,...
• Lunchtime summary
• David Cameron on the Merkel/Sarkozy EU plan
• Afternoon summary
9.00am: It's a big day for Europe. Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy are meeting to thrash out details of a plan that could set up a fiscal union in Europe and may (or may not) lead to some sort of resolution of the debt crisis. But this blog - like the UK - is sitting on the sidelines. My colleague Alex Hawkes will be covering the Merkozy meeting on the business live blog. And I'll be covering events at Westminster, where the most lively before 4pm will be Leveson - The Sequel, a star-studded committee hearing featuring Hugh Grant, Steve Coogan and Max Mosley who may well spend an hour telling MPs and peers exactly what they told Leveson.
Here's the diary for the day.
10am: Ed Miliband will campaign in Feltham and Heston,...
- 12/5/2011
- by Andrew Sparrow
- The Guardian - Film News
Sue Perkins raised the rafters in a new Sunday-evening panel show
Dilemma (R4) | iPlayer
I've Never Seen Star Wars (R4) | iPlayer
Oscar and Al Pacino (R4) | iPlayer
Victoria Derbyshire (5 Live) | iPlayer
Does the world – and Radio 4 in particular – need another panel show? Apparently so, for that is what we have in Dilemma, a new, post-Archers, Sunday-night effort, hosted by Sue Perkins and peopled by the familiar: Rebecca Front, Dave Gorman, Richard Herring. Oh, and Dominic Lawson. (Coming straight after The Archers could be a toughie: it's all inter-family bickering and people banging on about organic farming at the mo. Terrible. Like Radio Prince Charles.)
Anyway, Dilemma. I have no problem with the cast: all very funny and bantery. My heavy heart came from the format: I am sick of panel shows, which, by their nature, showcase show-off men and don't play to funny women's strengths. However, Dilemma was devised by comedian Danielle Ward,...
Dilemma (R4) | iPlayer
I've Never Seen Star Wars (R4) | iPlayer
Oscar and Al Pacino (R4) | iPlayer
Victoria Derbyshire (5 Live) | iPlayer
Does the world – and Radio 4 in particular – need another panel show? Apparently so, for that is what we have in Dilemma, a new, post-Archers, Sunday-night effort, hosted by Sue Perkins and peopled by the familiar: Rebecca Front, Dave Gorman, Richard Herring. Oh, and Dominic Lawson. (Coming straight after The Archers could be a toughie: it's all inter-family bickering and people banging on about organic farming at the mo. Terrible. Like Radio Prince Charles.)
Anyway, Dilemma. I have no problem with the cast: all very funny and bantery. My heavy heart came from the format: I am sick of panel shows, which, by their nature, showcase show-off men and don't play to funny women's strengths. However, Dilemma was devised by comedian Danielle Ward,...
- 11/20/2011
- by Miranda Sawyer
- The Guardian - Film News
Conservative minister Iain Duncan Smith has said that he will ensuring the benefit claims of X Factor star Wagner Carillho are fully investigated.
The Work and Pensions Secretary admitted that the star has been claiming £91 a week of incapacity benefit, after claiming that he is suffering from a painful shoulder condition which makes it impossible for him to work. However his energetic dance routines on the ITV show would suggest that the pain is more than manageable and speaking to The Sun, Smith said:
“One of the people on his case noticed he was leaping in the air with his arms above him when I am told that he had a frozen shoulder.
“Frozen shoulders tend to mean that you can’t have your arm in the air – it’s impossible. He will be asked to explain why he was on benefits in the first place.”
Iain said that Wagner...
The Work and Pensions Secretary admitted that the star has been claiming £91 a week of incapacity benefit, after claiming that he is suffering from a painful shoulder condition which makes it impossible for him to work. However his energetic dance routines on the ITV show would suggest that the pain is more than manageable and speaking to The Sun, Smith said:
“One of the people on his case noticed he was leaping in the air with his arms above him when I am told that he had a frozen shoulder.
“Frozen shoulders tend to mean that you can’t have your arm in the air – it’s impossible. He will be asked to explain why he was on benefits in the first place.”
Iain said that Wagner...
- 12/6/2010
- by Lisa McGarry
- Unreality
Wagner Carrilho is likely to face an investigation into claims that he cheated the benefit system, according to the Work and Pensions Secretary. Iain Duncan Smith said that Carrilho will have to "explain himself" over allegations that he claimed incapacity benefit for a frozen shoulder despite performing on The X Factor. Duncan Smith told Sky News: "One of the people on his case noticed he was leaping in the air with his arms above him when I am told that he had a frozen shoulder. "Frozen shoulders tend (more)...
- 12/6/2010
- by By Christian Tobin
- Digital Spy
A film about Andrea Dunbar and her daughter calls for a better understanding of the devastating effects of social change
There was a painfully poignant moment on the Buttershaw estate in Bradford yesterday when a blue plaque to mark the life of playwright Andrea Dunbar was erected on the council house where she lived until her death at the age of 29 in 1990. Most famous for her play Rita, Sue and Bob Too (1982), which was later adapted for the cinema, she was characterised as a writer who exposed the fallout of Thatcherism on the English working class.
The blue plaque was accompanied by the first public screening in the city of a new film, The Arbor, which traces the life of Dunbar and her eldest daughter Lorraine, now 29. Every decade since 1980, when Dunbar's first play was produced, the story of this family has been represented either on stage or in film.
There was a painfully poignant moment on the Buttershaw estate in Bradford yesterday when a blue plaque to mark the life of playwright Andrea Dunbar was erected on the council house where she lived until her death at the age of 29 in 1990. Most famous for her play Rita, Sue and Bob Too (1982), which was later adapted for the cinema, she was characterised as a writer who exposed the fallout of Thatcherism on the English working class.
The blue plaque was accompanied by the first public screening in the city of a new film, The Arbor, which traces the life of Dunbar and her eldest daughter Lorraine, now 29. Every decade since 1980, when Dunbar's first play was produced, the story of this family has been represented either on stage or in film.
- 10/18/2010
- by Madeleine Bunting
- The Guardian - Film News
In this new four-part series, a group of MPs leave Westminster and their comfortable homes to live for eight days and nights in tower blocks on different council estates in some of Britain’s most deprived neighbourhoods.
They will be living alongside and meeting a wide range of residents on the estates and coming face-to-face with issues that affect their lives: including gangs, immigration, drug addiction, poverty, crime, housing and unemployment. The MPs are Liberal Democrat Mark Oaten, Conservative Tim Loughton, Labour’s Austin Mitchell and former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith.
Monday 1 February 2010
9:00pm, Channel 4
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They will be living alongside and meeting a wide range of residents on the estates and coming face-to-face with issues that affect their lives: including gangs, immigration, drug addiction, poverty, crime, housing and unemployment. The MPs are Liberal Democrat Mark Oaten, Conservative Tim Loughton, Labour’s Austin Mitchell and former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith.
Monday 1 February 2010
9:00pm, Channel 4
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- 2/1/2010
- by Lisa McGarry
- Unreality
Former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith has claimed that gaming is destroying the innocence of children in the UK. In an interview with The Times, Smith condemned violent games and said that more needs to be done to ensure age ratings are enforced. "We are driving children to lose their childhood, and some video games are incredibly violent, like Grand Theft Auto," he said. "They are meant to be 18 [rated] but (more)...
- 1/24/2010
- by By Mark Langshaw
- Digital Spy
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