Tag: africa
Seun Kuti & Africa 80
Seun is the youngest son of the late Fela Kuti, the politically active leading light of Afrobeat. Having grown up in the thick of that scene, Seun now heads Africa 80, the second incarnation of his father’s band, playing the same energetic mix of funk, jazz, rock and highlife that electrified West African music in …
The Last King of Scotland
Director: Kevin Macdonald
United Kingdom, 2007
James McAvoy’s turn as leading man here is a superb mix of naïveté, youthful exuberance and abject fear. It’s perhaps unfortunate then that Last King will always be remembered – pretty much to the exclusion of everyone and everything else – for Forest Whitaker’s career-defining performance.
As General Idi Amin Dada, the …
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Córdoba
Containing some 500,00 inhabitants, tenth century Córdoba was home to Europe’s largest urban population. The Caliphate, a dynasty of Ummayad rulers exiled from their Syrian homelands, held sway over rich hinterlands that supported …
- Originally published: 15 Apr 2008 in Europe
Photos of 8ch and Magna
Another exciting feast of photos from the winter of 2006-7, in which we visit Sheffield, 8ch visits us and J and family visit Magna in Rotherham. 8ch darkens our door again The restaurant here …
- Originally published: 26 Jan 2007 in Personalia
Together (Tillsammans)
Director: Lukas Moodysson Denmark, 2000 Lukas Moodysson has been in touch with his coal-black dark side of late, starting with 2002’s impressively bleak Lilya-4-Ever. But before all that, there was Together: as earnest, sensitive …
- Originally published: 14 Feb 2007 in Film
Rebel Without A Cause
Director: Nicholas Ray United States, 1955 This simple story about teenage disaffection makes pretty depressing reading today, in a society where the problems of youth seem only to have multiplied. Let us however take nothing …
- Originally published: 27 Feb 2007 in Film
The Paper
Director: Ron Howard United States, 1994 As a screenwriter David Koepp has been around. He’s written some terrific scripts and some not so terrific. His work on The Paper, alongside brother Stephen, manages to …
- Originally published: 15 May 2007 in Film
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Hello you. I'm Mike Padgett and I work in the technology sector as an Information Designer.
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