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Feature film. An urban crime drama updating King Lear to modern-day Liverpool. The leader of a gang, Sandeman, decides to divide his territory after the murder of his wife in a street robbery. He would like...
Fiction film. A re-telling of Macbeth set in the ganglands of Melbourne. Macbeth (Worthington), a loyal henchman to his crime boss Duncan (Sweet), is told by teenage witches that he will one day assume a...
Hollywood and the Americanization of Britain: From the 1920s to the Present By Mark Glancy (I.B. Tauris, 2014), 340 pages ISBN 978-1-84885-407-9 (hardback) About the reviewer: Dr Sheldon Hall is a...
Fifty Years of The Battle of Algiers: Past as Prologue by Sohail Daulatzai, (University of Minnesota Press, 2016), 104 pages, ISBN: 978-1517902384, £7.99 About the reviewer: Alan O’Leary is Professor...
Breaking Bad: The Official Book by David Thomson, (Sterling, 2015), 224 pages, ISBN: 978-1454916734 (paperback), £4.99 About the Reviewer: Patrick O’Neill has been teaching film studies at Kingston...
India produces more films per year than any other nation, yet only a smattering of these relate to Shakespeare. Dr Deana Rankin, Senior Lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London, looks at recent...
In November 1982 I was working as Assistant TV Acquisitions Officer in the National Film Archive at the British Film Institute and freelancing for Time Out and a range of magazines and newspapers about...
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