Speak Up is a stylish, moving, funny, and well-paced documentary. But most importantly, makes you smile. Released in France as À voix haute, la force de la parole, we caught its UK premiere this Wednesday.
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Bluefin: Tuna fishing’s catch-22
In the small fishing village of North Lake, Canada, people remember when the tuna went away. Now they’re back in numbers, and so is North Lake’s reputation as the “tuna capital of the world”. But scientists claim stocks are down by 90% globally, and these normally wary tuna are so hungry that they will now…
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‘Siblings’ world premiere: A tale of Mexico and America from below
Siblings is a film of two halves, two stories which play out on different sides of the Mexican-American border. It is about love and abandonment, illegal immigration and populism, and three real people whose voices we seldom hear in the age of Trump and his ‘beautiful wall’.
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Riverblue: Exposing the fashion industry’s dirty laundry
“How clean are your clothes?” probes the tagline for Riverblue, a powerful film that shows the high cost of low cost clothing.
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On Yoga, or ‘How white people learned to stop worrying and love the om’
The seething tourist trap of Leicester Square in central London might not seem the ideal location for a screening of a film about peace, tranquility, and deep questions about human nature.
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Dubtopia: strong but formulaic
After we reviewed Gentleman’s Dub Club perform live in London last month, they were kind enough to send us an advance copy of their new album Dubtopia, which is out today on Easy Star Records.
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Gentleman’s Dub Club – Dubtopia Tour – A Review
I knew what to expect when I walked into the Troxy music hall, somewhere in east London, to see Gentleman’s Dub Club.
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The people with chronic pain who fall through the cracks in the NHS
Imagine being in so much pain that you never left the house unless you had to. Now imagine you couldn’t make that pain go away. The charity Pain UK estimates that 14 million people in Britain are suffering from chronic pain, defined medically as pain persisting longer than three months. Others put that number much higher.…
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The devastating effects of American intervention in Guatemala
In 1954, an American-orchestrated coup d’état put an end to the first democratically elected government that Guatemala had ever experienced. In its place was installed a series of military, authoritarian governments, funded and advised by the United States (US). These governments waged a brutal war of repression against not just the consequent guerrilla opposition, but…
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Reducing the harm of drug use at UK Universities
In May this year, Newcastle University’s Students Union became the first SU in the UK to offer drug testing kits to its students. The kits, sold at the below-RRP price of £3, allow students to test the content of drugs purporting to be MDMA and ketamine. They are being touted as a harm-reduction focused approach to…
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