The promotion for Channel 4’s Secret State makes much of it being "inspired by Chris Mullin’s novel A Very British Coup".
Light from the Middle East This exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London presents photographs by artists from across the Middle East and explores the role of photography in the region. Some have used their cameras to record or witness events, others to distort them.
The latest James Bond movie, Skyfall, celebrates 50 years of the films. Ian Fleming’s books introduced the character in the 1950s. They started from the premise that Bond is a killer—that’s all he does.
Why Poverty? film season The DOChouse is showing a series of documentary films Why Poverty? Two are showing on 15 November at the Rich Mix centre in east London.
John Berger, who has just passed his 86th birthday, has been active on the left for seven decades.
The Shining is all about contrasts. It feels like an epic but zooms in on a disintegrating nuclear family. It is about secrets and abuse—but everything happens in plain sight.
Haitian art is often wrongly labelled "primitive art". This exhibition forces people to value it—even though it doesn’t fit into Western parameters for understanding art.
Ali (Matthias Schoenaerts) is an impoverished boxer, taking scraps to feed his young son on the train from Belgium to northern France.
Bat for Lashes: The Haunted Man Natasha Khan’s third album as Bat for Lashes arrives, she explains, after a panic with "writer’s block". Songs explore themes of struggling to overcome self-doubt and indecision. Her chord patterns and symbolistic lyrics reflect this.
On an island in the wetlands of Louisiana, the locals are preparing for the next great storm. They are black, white and Native American and—according to six year old Hushpuppy—they have more holidays than anywhere else in the world.
How does oil make its way from the bowels of the earth to carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere and plastic waste in the sea?
The Lidice Story The Nazis destroyed the Czech village of Lidice in 1942. The shootings and deportations were filmed and broadcast to discourage resistance.
