PAUL DONOVAN is chilled by the contemporary resonance of Harper Lee’s coming of age tale amidst racism and white supremacy in this excellent production
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IAN SINCLAIR previews some of the hard-edged entries to the Yorkshire city’s annual Doc/Fest, which begins this weekend
GEOFF BOTTOMS recommends the unashamedly light-hearted escapism on offer in this stage version of the 1963 film
Full of mysterious religious references and radical sound design, the Scottish duo’s new offering is candidate for album of the year, suggests SIMON DUFF
MARY CONWAY revels in a powerful reminder that human lives are not defined by physical perfection
PAUL DONOVAN recommends the fine performances in this account of the pre-war meeting between the US president and the British king
TECLYN AROD relishes an intimate celebration of jazz improvisation that mixes local and national musicians
DIRECTED by Johanna Hamilton, 1971 is an accomplished US feature-length documentary about the break-in that happened at the FBI regional office in Media, Pennsylvania, in 1971.
Strongly opposed to their nation’s ongoing destruction of Vietnam a small group of activists decided to move from non-violent protest to non-violent disruption.
Calling themselves The Citizen’s Commission To Investigate The FBI, they stole documents that showed J Edgar Hoover’s political police force was involved in a decades-long campaign of spying and subversion against the anti-war movement, black groups, the women’s movement and political radicals.
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SETH SANDRONSKY recommends a production that looks back at the political Tinseltown in the mid-1970s when US cinema ‘didn’t pander to trends’
If true, the photo’s history is a damning indictment of the systematic exploitation of non-Western journalists by Western media organisations – a pattern that persists today, posit KATE CANTRELL and ALISON BEDFORD
With the recent release of Paul Thomas Anderson’s movie One Battle After Another, STEPHEN ARNELL gives the storied history of the British real-life left-wing urban guerillas
MIKE QUILLE applauds an excellent example of cultural democracy: making artworks which are a relevant, integral part of working-class lives