Film review: SELMA, from ‘Built For Speed’

The title of the film Selma refers to the Alabama town in which Martin Luther King Jr organised marches to protest the obstruction of voting rights for black Americans in the south. As anyone familiar with recent American history will recall, one of these protests turned hideously violent when state troopers, police under the command of Sheriff Jim Clark and

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Film review: BROKEN, from Built For Speed

Broken is a moving, low-key family drama and teen coming-of-age story set in a lower middle class North London suburb.  The film centres on Skunk (Eloise Laurence) an ebullient 13 year old girl who lives with her step Mother (Zana Marjanovic), older teen brother Jed (Bill Milner) and alternating father figures: dad Archie (Tim Roth) and her step mother’s new

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