With increasingly exposed police brutality and calls to defund the force, is it time the film industry put one of its most successful genres into custody?
Starting off in BBC soap EastEnders, British-Indian actor Himesh Patel has moved on to roles that go against usual BAME type casting, starring in period drama The Luminaries and Christopher Nolan’s upcoming epic, Tenet. It’s all about changing perceptions, he says.
Movies. TV. Quibis? Here’s a list of everything that will be gracing a screen or iPhone near you in the next four months that’s worth seeking out.
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Over a period of several weeks, director Stanley Brock asked families from across the UK to record their experiences of lockdown. The resulting film is a patchwork of stories that speak of empathy and hope.
Through deft social satire and political allegory, South Korea has not only grasped a defining monster of western cinema for themselves – they’re now leading hordes across the globe with a brand of undead movie-making of their own.
In Days of the Bagnold Summer, the 20-year-old actor gets under the skin of everyone around him as a mutinous, heavy metal-loving teen.
