Wednesday, 21 April 2010

The bare facts

Someone at BBC Drama has had a lightbulb moment. 'Pop stars ...', he or she has noted, '... often have complicated relationships with their Dads. We could make some films out of that'. And so, a fortnight ago, we were treated to an exploration of Boy George's paternal frictions. This week it was the turn of John Winston Lennon.

Saturday, 10 April 2010

Terror Vision: Chris Morris' Four Lions

Chris Morris is the writer and mind behind the peerless media satires ‘On The Hour’, ‘The Day Today’, ‘Brass Eye’ and ‘Nathan Barley’. ‘Four Lions’ is his first feature film, co-written by Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong. It is a comedy about suicide bombers and its UK provincial premiere was at the Broadway Cinema, Nottingham, where Chris, Sam and Jesse talked about the film.

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