alienated Britain. It may even be that this transatlantic cross-pollination is a crucial factor in the novel’s vivid sense of dislocation. (It certainly meant that, when it came to Cronenberg’s North American reset—the film was shot in Toronto with a Canadian and American cast—the mood...
That people feel the need to have it explained, justified and prescribed by experts--psychologists, doctors, the author of a book on "mindfulness"--is very amusing, in a not altogether enjoyable way. I'm tempted to quote from the article, but it should be read to be fully appreciated. ...
Posted September 16th, 2024 inautism,doctors,families,immigration,news,visasby tracey ‘An experienced and highly regarded doctor who is working at a GP surgery in east London says he has no choice but to walk away from his job because the Home Office is separating him from his wife and aut...
Over his more than four decades as a director, Ken Loach has built a body of work unsurpassed in world film and television for its relentless analysis of social and political injustice. Not that Loach has much use for the auteur theory, modestly considering himself a collaborator rather than a...
cast: first to banish from the studio the BBC reporter played by Geraldine Chaplin, then to brutally lash out at the pianist “Frog” (Richard Baskin, who arranged and supervised the music for the entire film). It’s a funny and terrifying scene, establishing the whole pecking order of ...