Only the most London-centric (and I’m a Londoner) will be most surprised at Manchester’s winning the super casino. Manchester has a proven track record of making convincing bids for major event and leisure driven regeneration projects that are delivered on time, within budget and leave lasting legacies. The industrial revolution started here in Continue reading
A rather slow action thriller that runs away from its own occasional (and very clumsy) attempts to ask if it’s ever okay to do a little evil to stop a bigger evil or how easily the followers of such a doctrine might be corrupted by it. As with Schindler’s List, Munich shows Spielberg Continue reading
Silent Jack was never going to win Celebrity Big Brother and has nothing to say on Big Brother’s Big Mouth. Some may think him brave to be here at all, given the anti-Goody sentiment. A tear may have formed in his eye at a demand he leave Jade. But I think he’s genuinely Continue reading
I’m not easily moved to tears, but Nick Broomfield’s Ghosts did that trick. They were tears of shame. It’s a film that shows that imperialism is alive and well and that the relatively luxurious lifestyles we enjoy come at a high price to be paid by those born into foreign poverty. These illegal Continue reading
With Ghosts, Broomfield moves seamlessly from our leading documentary filmmaker to groundbreaking docu-dramatist. This is an uncomfortable film of British society’s underbelly. Those we know are to die cockling in Morecombe Bay must first suffer the worst jobs and living conditions our cruellest and greediest gangsters can find them. A must see 10 Continue reading
