GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
Rebels with a cause
MARIA DUARTE recommends a compelling behind-the-scenes documentary about the founding of Extinction Rebellion and its summer of mass protests in 2019
Extinction Rebellion protest outside the BBC's HQ in London
PAUL DONOVAN applauds an excellently crafted new musical that explores the life and death of Ruth Ellis
PAUL DONOVAN is tickled by the excruciating take-downs of one of the funniest, wittiest, political writers around.
RON JACOBS points out, via a transcription of Kissinger’s secret recordings, that Trump could never have existed without Nixon and Kissinger
ELLIS RAE is persuaded that the advantages of the ‘talking cure’ are superior to the treatment of mental illness with drugs
JOHN GREEN, MICHAL BONCZA and BELLA KATZ review The Good Boy, Broken English, and Don't Be Prey
Rebellion (15)
Directed by Maia Kenworthy and Elena Sanchez Bellot
“IF YOU’RE not in prison, you’re not in resistance,” advocates Roger Hallam — one of the co-founders of Extinction Rebellion — in this compelling documentary about the birth and rise of the global environmental movement.
With unprecedented access, filmmakers Maia Kenworthy and Elena Sanchez Bellot follow a group of ordinary people and capture the behind-the-scenes story of how XR was launched in 2018 on a commitment to save the planet with non-violent civil disobedience.
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