Shadow dancer is an intense and hard hitting thriller set in 1990s Belfast, in the fraught months leading up to the end of the Troubles.
Parade’s End explores the impact of the First World War, the turbulence of the period and the effect it had on society and ideas. The drama covers the moments leading up to the war, right through to its aftermath.
Riot From Wrong is what the BBC’s The Riots In Their Own Words programme should have been. This new film documentary by Fully Focused Productions pulls no punches.
Last night’s Channel 4 Dispatches documentary promised to reveal the "tricks of the dole cheats" that apparently "make it easy to cheat the system".
The trailer for Offender may lead you to believe that this film has much to do with last year’s urban rebellions. However, the riots are only used as an enabler for a poor prison revenge film.
Robert Golden documents working class communities with streams of pictures that beautifully home in on moments of everyday life.
Practical Electronica 26 August, 7.45pm, Glasgow Film Theatre, £7/£5.50
Taken together, the cultural programmes that take place in Edinburgh each August and September amount to the biggest arts festival on the planet.
Eugene Luther Gore Vidal, who died last week, was a ruling class dissident—a radical leftist who came from the establishment. Many admire him for his elegant, incisive essays on US politics. But just as radical in their way were his novels and plays.
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists 1-27 August, Assembly George Square, Edinburgh EH8
