Tag: film
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Threads: the Redux
In June 2018, I took up an opportunity to play the character of Jimmy in a low-budget remake of the 1984 film Threads which is about a nuclear apocalypse and the subsequent impact on Sheffield. Written by Barry Hines (A Kestrel for a Knave), a common reaction to the film is one of sheer terror.…
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Review. Apostasy: a test of faith and blood
Daniel Kokotajilo’s first feature-length film sensitively explores the intense and often tragic consequences of blind faith. Drawing from his own experiences of leaving the community of Jehovah’s Witnesses which brought him up, Kokotajilo encourages his audience to sympathise with Ivanna (Siobhan Finneran) and her daughters, Luisa (Sacha Parkinson) and Alex (Molly Wright), despite the preconceptions…
Harry Browse 