Last week the Cooperative Bank hosted a free screening of BBC documentary ‘Tar Wars’, which tells the harrowing story of a small indigenous community, the Beaver Lake Cree, fighting to save their land from the ravages of rapid oil expansion. Suzie Mitchell reviews for MULE.
A new short film produced in Manchester challenges the apocalyptic thought of environmental activists. MULE’s Andy Lockhart spoke to its director, Dr Stefan Skrimshire.
A screening of three diverse films from the past 40 years of the Women’s Liberation Movement, organised by Manchester Film Co-operative at the King’s Arms pub, showed what films can tell us about our history, and what we can learn from them today. Natalie Bradbury reviews.
Kinofilm, Manchester’s long-running short film festival, returns this week after a three year absence, renamed as the to-the-point Kinofilm Manchester European Short Film Festival. Screenings take place Tuesday 27 April – Sunday 2 May at the AMC Cinema, alongside educational events, discussions and debates.
On Monday 15 March, the world premiere of Leslie Lwerk’s new film Dirty Oil screened simultaneously at 24 cinema’s across the United Kingdom. The venues were connected via satellite connection so that viewers could participate in an interactive panel discussion by sending in text messages to the director and activists involved in the campaign. The […]
Director Paul Greengrass here returns to the successful formula of his two Bourne films, with Matt Damon playing a highly-trained US soldier, cut loose by a spy network at war with itself. In Green Zone however, the plot and action scenes both fall flat.
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it a documentary or a mock-umentary? I still have no idea how to describe Banksy’s first film, but it was certainly entertaining. The film is also typical of Banksy’s art, witty, subversive and intentionally ambiguous.
