Not for the masses, but from the masses
Ian Parks grew up in a South Yorkshire mining family - as his new volume of poetry The Exile House hits the shelves, Jody Porter finds out his sources of inspiration.
The Economics Of Killing
An expose of the military-industrial complex shows how its actions grease the transfer of resources from the poorest to the richest globally
The Fall
Will Stone was left pondering an incoherent outing
Scottish reel treat
This weekend sees a unique celebration of cinema at Glasgow's Southside Film Festival
Film
Nauseating teenage film promotes Dubya's view of sex before marriage
Friday 17 December 2004
Sleep-through more likely.
Reflections on a feudal society
Friday 17 December 2004
FILM: Based upon Asada Jiro's best-selling novel When the Last Sword is Drawn, Yojiro Takita's cinematic adaptation is one of those long-drawn-out dramas about the last days of the samurai in 19th-century Japan.
Ever so wicked
Friday 17 December 2004
PICK: JEFF SAWTELL marvels at Jim Carrey's gurning as the grotesque Count Olaf in this slushy Christmas flick.
Inhumane beauty
Wednesday 15 December 2004
FILM: KARL DALLAS finds a beautiful, poetic work based around the ugliest construction on the planet - the Israeli government's apartheid wall.
A glimpse of life in the darkness
Wednesday 15 December 2004
We have seen television programmes about power failure. London and parts of the US have tasted what may be in store.
Don't mention LA
Friday 10 December 2004
PICK: JEFF SAWTELL finds Thom Anderson's suggestion that the city of Los Angeles has a split personality oddly satisfying.
Overblown and over the top
Friday 10 December 2004
PARIS â the wrecked interior of the Opera Populaire is filmed in dusty monochrome. An auction of memorabilia is in progress.
Elegance from the US
Friday 10 December 2004
TELEVISION from the US is a legendary breeding ground for mediocrity and, predominantly, undistinguished inanity.
A treat for creatures of the night
Friday 10 December 2004
IN this third instalment of a bloody saga, the comic book-created vampire hunter is once again played with evident relish, if little subtlety, by Wesley Snipes.