Unlike his previous work, this is a tight, personal film about the experiences of a nine year old boy in a Belfast riven by The Troubles, thirty years of riots and retaliations among warring factions of adults that a child of such a young age is incapable of making any sense of. The only thing… Continue reading Kenneth Branagh’s brilliant “little” Belfast
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Cancelling Eric Clapton
The legendary musician teams up with Van Morrison to raise money for musicians affected by coronavirus and chaos ensues over 45-year old racist comments In August of 1976, Eric Clapton went on a drug fueled tirade against immigration at a show in Birmingham, England. The content is startlingly racist to modern sensibilities: “Do we have… Continue reading Cancelling Eric Clapton