"In a world full of Kardashians be more Poly Styrene"
Some people think little geeks should be seen and not heard...Hear me chatting with m'colleague Graham Williamson about the brilliant Poly Styrene on this week's edition of Pop Screen. You can also watch this edition on YouTube
I never ever thought that any article I'd write would end up published on a site alongside articles by Chomsky and John Pilger yet here we are!
America's left leaning, leading libertarian news outlet ZNetwork have published my review of Nobody Loves You and You Don't Deserve to Exist in which I say that Brett Gregory's low budget, semi-autobiographical movie is a justified indictment of neoliberalism, a policy I argue is killing the working class.
Read it on ZNetwork.
Don't really know why they made Jenna Coleman Welsh? It's not that she couldn't do the accent, it was that she was doing the accent of a women purposefully losing the accent due to living away? Odd choice. Claire Rushbrook though ❤️
Number 89 in my 52 Films by Women in 2023 challenge.
St Helens Disability Advice and Welfare Network, St Helens Jobcentre, Ashton-In-Makerfield Jobcentre, Huyton Jobcentre, Apex Charitable Trust, Shaw Trust St Helens, Starting Point St Helens.
Just some of the places I've worked at that involve helping people into work, getting people 'job ready' or dealing with people's benefit claims.
Jobseekers allowance, Incapacity benefit, Employment and Support allowance, Carers allowance.
Just some of the benefits I've claimed since (and between) those jobs.
I've ran jobclubs, CV making courses and jobmatch programmes,…
40 minutes.
18 killings.
3 lines of dialogue.
No structure, seemingly.
No rhyme or reason, seemingly.
Just the elephant in the room.
A brutal uncompromising look at Sectarian assassination that dramatises genuine events and forces you to consider the Troubles in a way that acres of news coverage cannot. Just what is your gut reaction at the end of it? Does the endless cadence of footfall and gunfire go some way to desensitise you or does it make you realise…
