A culture clash for Honour
Honour is a British film about the topical issue of honour killings that take place – at the rate of 12 a year – right here in the UK and at the rate of 5,000 worldwide. The directorial debut of scri ...
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Should the past be kept as just that?
After winning 70 major awards, including an Academy Award (Best Foreign Film), for his last film, A Separation, Writer/Director Asghar Farhadi is no longer just the most celebrated Iranian filmmaker a ...
Two is better than one
Richard Ayoade gained a cult following with his 2011 debut feature, Submarine, a quirky, coming-of-age film, the humour of which arose from the discrepancy between the precocious unreliable narrator’s ...
Anthems to doomed youth: A landmark in English National Ballet’s history
Robert Tanitch reviews Lest We Forget at the Barbican Theatre, London, EC2 To mark the centenary of the outbreak of World War 1 Tamara Rojo, artistic director of English National Ballet, asked three c ...