STEVEN ANDREW is moved beyond words by a historical account of mining in Britain made from the words of the miners themselves
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'Where is the justice?'
That's the question posed by MARK GILLIS in his film depicting the harsh realities of working-class life in one of the richest cities in the world. He tells John Green why he's asking it
CAILEAN MCBRIDE welcomes a refreshing and timely study of the way officialdom creates structures that exclude LGBT+ rights and humanity
The bard mourns the loss of comrades and troubadours, and looks for consolation with Black Country Jess
CHRIS MOSS relishes the painting and the life story of a self-taught working-class artist from Warrington
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a star-studded adaptation of Ibsen’s play that is devoid of believable humanity
GORDON PARSONS is fascinated by a unique dream journal collected by a Jewish journalist in Nazi Berlin
Borrowed Time: Lennon’s Last Decade, Parthenope, Where Dragons Live and Thunderbolts* reviewed by MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE
SET in south-east London, Mark Gillis’s debut feature-length film Sink tells the story of skilled manual worker Micky Mason who, after losing his job, is forced to work zero-hour jobs before being made unemployed again.
Faced with a seemingly hopeless situation, he descends into drug-running to survive. It's a course of action completely out of character but the only way he can see of keeping his family together.
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