We seem to be living at the tail end of a golden age for the music documentary. For a while there you couldn’t move for the blighters, some of which were genuinely impressive. But now that BBC Four no longer has the budget...
Read MoreThere was a time, as Peter Cook once joked, When Diana Dors Ruled the Earth. It’s a neat gag, but it’s also pretty telling. Swindon-born actor-cum-bombshell Dors had indeed loomed large in her heyday but, by the 70s,...
Read MoreBack in the early 2000s, Mexican cinema was riding a wave with films such as Amores Perros and Y tu mamá también impressing audiences and critics alike. By 2006, writer Jason Wood had taken the opportunity to speak directly to a...
Read MoreBack at the start of last year, Northern Soul spoke to curator Jan Hicks about the then-forthcoming Science and Industry Museum exhibition about Factory – that’s to say, Tony Wilson and co’s now-legendary northern...
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