Music plays a huge role in people’s lives. It can offer hope and time for reflection. In a time of cuts and austerity across the world, you could argue that now more than ever we need musicians in our lives.
In the original 1987 film, Wall Street, iconic slimeball Gordon Gecko (Michael Douglas) summarised the Reagan-Thatcher era in three words, "Greed… is good."
Veteran musician Tiken Jah Fakoly merges the sounds of Africa with funky reggae from Jamaica.
The London film festival presents films from Britain and around the world at the BFI building on the south bank of the Thames.
The First of the Swedish films based on Stieg Larsson’s trilogy of crime novels is released on DVD this week.
Senay Courtney, Danny Burnett and Rohan Nakkady each win a pair of tickets to Men Should Weep at the National Theatre in London.
The only people who kept the banks afloat in the financial crisis were organised crime’s money launderers.
Two new photo exhibitions present changing views of black people through the past century.
Cristi is a police officer stalking and staking out a gang of young drug offenders in a small town in Romania. He is reluctant to prosecute them as this would ruin their lives and the law will soon change.
This stunning nine-part BBC TV series from 1996 has just been released on DVD.
To mark what would have been John Lennon’s 70th birthday, his partner Yoko Ono has overseen the remastering and reissuing of his post-Beatles solo work.
This new book is a handy guide to why all workers need a union to defend their pay, conditions and rights.
