Australian director Stephan Elliott hasn’t had much luck since writing and directing the 1994 hit The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. He has
Tag: English cinema
Film review – It’s a Free World… (2007)
It is estimated that 90% of low paid-work in London is done by the proportion of migrant workers who are the new class of transient
Film review – Hunger (2008)
Hunger is the startling film debut by the Turner Prize winning English video artist Steve McQueen. Set in the Northern Irish Maze Prison in 1981,
DVD review – Housewife, 49 (2006), Region 4, Reel
During World War II British citizens were encouraged to document their lives in order to give the social research agency, the Mass-Observation Archive, a picture
Film review – And When Did You Last See Your Father? (2007)
The English are reputedly pretty bad at expressing their feelings, which is why this gentle yet heartfelt English drama, based on the memoirs of poet
Film review – Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)
Mike Leigh’s films, which include Secrets & Lies and Vera Drake, are often miserable affairs, exploring the difficulties of the English working-class. In Happy-Go-Lucky Leigh
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