This is acclaimed director Jia Zhang-ke’s haunting and devastating take on how the rapid economic expansion of China is hitting the majority of people in these four separate stories of unparalleled violence. The first tale is of Dahai an ex-miner who goes on a rampage after he fails to report the Village Chief for selling … Continue reading
Carter is a happy well-adjusted young man. He owns a successful restaurant, has a nice apartment and a live-in girlfriend that he loves. Life seemingly couldn’t get better until one day his younger brother announces that he is going to marry the girl he has been dating for just four months, and that is the … Continue reading
Amy is a poet. And a rather annoying whiny one at that. Just recently graduated from Syracuse University with a massive student loan debt and living with parents who’s bank accounts she has drained and who’s patience she has finally exhausted, her life is a mess. No local employer wants to employ a Poetry Major so … Continue reading
Dr George Tiller was gunned down in cold blood in front of his family whilst at a Sunday Service in a church in Wichita, Kansas in 2009. The killer was a rabid anti-abortionist activist who wanted to stop Dr Tiller performing third-trimester abortions. After he succeeded there were only four other Doctors left in the … Continue reading
Alan Partridge is a comic phenomenon in the UK : an iconic fictional inept character that has been something of a national treasure since he first appeared as a bumbling Sports Reporter on BBC Radio in 1991. He went on to host his own parody television talk show ‘Knowing Me, Knowing You ….with Alan Partridge’. As … Continue reading