Derek’s crime was an act of intense brutality, portrayed in gut-wrenching detail. In a monochrome flashback, Derek, clad only in white boxers and black military-style boots, his chest…
Read more Did American History X foreshadow the resurgence of white nationalism in the US?To achieve such a humane approach, Meadows filmed chronologically, encouraging improvisation in rehearsals to fully flesh out even the most diabolical of his characters. It’s how Paddy Considine…
Read more How grisly thriller Dead Man’s Shoes captured British small-town violenceThe film has more than stood the test of time, and in 2004 was inducted into the US Library of Congress’s National Film Library of “culturally significant” films.…
Read more The inside story of how Bruce Lee’s martial-arts epic Enter the Dragon changed cinema foreverThe Archers’ script recasts Colonel Blimp as Major-General Clive Wynne-Candy, introducing him in then-present-day 1943 as the familiarly rotund and moustachioed caricature from Low’s drawings. An extended flashback…
Read more The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp: The war film that Churchill tried to ban
