The Bristol Festival of Ideas, which is inviting nearly 100 writers, commentators and thinkers to share their expertise at 60 events over a densely packed May programme, continued with @Bristol’s hosting of Professor Sir David King. King is currently the… Continue Reading
St George’s welcomed James Lovelock as part of this year’s Festival of Ideas, the burgeoning season of lectures and talks covering topics as far-ranging as contemporary cinema, urbanisation and monetary reform. Lovelock is a seminal thinker, whose once-ridiculed theories of… Continue Reading
The spectacle of a filmmaker being violently ambushed by his subject is a compelling way for any documentary to begin; this is exactly what happens in the first minutes of ‘Beware of Mr Baker’ as legendary rock drummer Ginger Baker… Continue Reading
After the success of 2002’s Bowling For Columbine and the controversial “We live in fictitious times” speech he delivered in protest against President Bush’s new war in Iraq at the 2003 Academy Awards, Michael Moore became something of a cultural… Continue Reading
Review by Scott Hammond – “I know that when I was growing up, I had all the potential in the world,” thus asserts fiercely ambitious independent filmmaker Mark Borchardt at the beginning of Chris Smith’s documentary American Movie. To imbue… Continue Reading
Written by Arran Dutton – Jack Bauer is back and this time London is the setting for the chaos that will unfold as the noble, damaged hero many grew to love over insane DVD marathons returns for another series of… Continue Reading
By Conal Dougan The Bristol Festival of Ideas is now in its 9th year and starting to become something of a local institution. It started in 2005 as part of Bristol’s bid to become the Capital of Culture. Despite the… Continue Reading
Unseen is a short film written by Gabby Hawes of Glastonbury who has teamed up with other talented young Bristol filmmakers at Artswork Media to produce a hard-hitting drama. Inspired by real case studies, Gabby will also direct this captivating… Continue Reading