Julian Assange’s Father & The Struggle for His Son’s Freedom. (Director, Pablo Navarrete, 35 mins, Alborada Films). “Pablo Navarrete’s outstanding film 'No Extradition' could be titled, ‘No Pasaran!’ It has the same principled defiance and reflects…
An unusual profile of an extraordinary artist. John Reynolds is known as “a painter” but he is a 21st century conception of a painter, who paints with words, spray cans, tattoos, trees and plants – on walls, clothes, landscapes, and many other materials. Like the artist, the documentary…
The writing and drawing of comic books has remained a little-known and under-rated area of New Zealand culture. Director Shirley Horrocks reveals it to us as a highly creative subculture with a rich local history. Despite a moral panic about comics in the ‘40s and ‘50s (recalled here by Eric…
209 Saint-Maur Street is a classic Haussmann building in the 10th arrondissement of Paris: Stone, built around a courtyard, shops on the bottom floor. In the first decades of the 20th century, it was home to some 300 working class people, about a third of them Jewish. And then came the Nazi occupation.…
Derek Fowlds was a regular fixture on our television screens for over six decades. Since winning a scholarship to RADA in 1958, he has appeared on the big-screen with the likes of Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde, Robert Morley and Olympia Dukakis, and has starred in a number of long running television series…
Han pasado varios años desde que Peter decidió irse a vivira Plan, un pueblo aislado en los Pirineos aragoneses. Lejosde las ventajas que una ciudad ofrece a una persona ciega,sobrevive gracias a su arte, la música rock. A pesar de lagrabación de su último álbum,…
Drawing on archive film and interviews with the band, a team of leading music critics and working musicians reviews and assesses the music of Coldplay to reveal the secrets behind the Coldplay phenomenon. This film was made with complete editorial freedom. It is not approved, endorsed or associated with…
The ultimate independent review of Madonna on record, on film and on stage. Featuring rare, previously unreleased, archive footage of Madonna performing live on stage and giving her most candid views on her own work off stage. Made with total editorial freedoms this is the most frank, candid and penetrating…
Beatlemania swept America on the back of brilliantly conceived and executed compilation album "Meet the Beatles" a live telecast to American cinemas and four key appearances on the Ed Sullivan TV show. By April 1964 Beatles singles occupied all five top positions on the Billboard chart, a feat…
This is the full story of one of the great hard rocking, hell raising bands. Fronted by the charismatic Axl Rose and driven by Slash's raw, powerful guitar, Guns N' Roses have given rock music a string of classic albums and singles, including Welcome to the Jungle, Paradise City and of course,…
Paul Begala, former advisor to Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and author of "You're Fired: The Perfect Guide to Beating Donald Trump" and, French political scientist Célia Belin, who spent months following Democratic candidates for her book "Des Démocrates en Amérique",…
Ashra Kwesi takes the viewer on a historical and chronological journey into Black peoples' (Kemet Nu) true history. Utilizing extensive research and analysis, Ashra Kwesi debunks the idea that "aliens" were the builders of the most impressive structures on the planet. In addition to the…
