by John Green Malcolm Hulke – known to friends and colleagues as “Mac” – is one of those now forgotten scriptwriters for TV and cinema, who was... Continue reading
Reporting on Four Boys by Jenny Mitchell A cigarette. A tea-light. A motherdown the shops. Two sets of twinsleft in a house, fire spreading fastover rubbish on... Continue reading
Set in the south of England, this self-reflexive instance of cinematic faction follows five young adults as they travel through an hour-long narrative that offers up visions... Continue reading
by Steven Taylor If the rich need riches to sustain themit stands to reason, the poor requirepoverty as inspiration. The Chancellor understands this instinctively. Shedoes not need... Continue reading
by Ciaran O’Rourkeafter Friedrich Engels, 1820-1895 A two-hundred-thousand mass – and what a mass!Bare women, ruddy men, with nothing left, completelyclad in rags: living proletarians,and more –... Continue reading
INTRODUCTION by Andy Croft Escape to Moribundia is the last in a trilogy of verse-novels written in Pushkin sonnets (the others being Ghost Writer and Nineteen Forty-eight).... Continue reading
Angus Reid reviews Brief History Of A Family, directed by Lin Jianjie In 1928 the Soviet director and film theorist Sergei Eisenstein wrote an essay, The Cinematographic... Continue reading
The State Management Scheme brewery, 1916-1971 by Keith Flett The grip that global big beer has on what is sold and drunk in bars and pubs needs... Continue reading
Self-portrait with Hand on Brow – Kathe Kollwitz by James O’Brien Even after all, the span was only yesterday,That yesterday of horrors, where everyone slipped away.I felt... Continue reading
by Janet Hatherleyafter Henry Reed Today we have naming of seas. Yesterdaywe had the Gulf of Mexico. And tomorrow morningwe shall have what to do after firing.... Continue reading