Like the exemplars of social realist cinema, Mr Bates vs The Post Office follows stories of individual plight facing a social problem filmed in a naturalistic manner.
Academic rigour, journalistic flair
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The effect is the transfer of wealth away from the poorest workers.
Flexibility is just a euphemism for exploitation.
Martin Scorsese believes superhero movies are ‘not cinema’. What do the experts think?
The tragic story of a lonely, bullied boy who befriends a kestrel was an instant hit in the 1960s.
In 1966, the BBC drama Cathy Come Home radically changed the way society thinks about homelessness. So how would Cathy fare today?
Loach’s latest film tells the story of a man who finds himself caught in a harsh world of uncaring bureaucrats, food banks and benefits cuts.
Peter Watkins may not be a household name, but The Hunger Games, John Lennon’s Imagine and the Bourne films would be very different without him.
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