BIG BROTHER - Cruelty TV As We Knew It

BIG BROTHER - Cruelty TV As We Knew It

Sure it feels like the end of the road for what is a light entertainment/Factual show…
Or Cruelty TV as we knew it…
Racism was the last taboo, these type of show had never tackled. While class war, sexism, etc…had already been through the big brother machine… Having said that…Isn’t it the very function of CBB and […]

Bollywood, Events, Television, War

CITIZEN KEN - A world Determined by Political & Economic Decisions

CITIZEN KEN - A world Determined by Political & Economic Decisions

“People don’t live in a vacuum, they live in a world determined by political and economic decisions that affect them down to the most private, the most inner part of their lives” KEN L.
Ken Loach is unassuming. His work has a richness and complexity, so often absent in modern movies, that marks a strongly humanist […]

Political, Social, Society, Television, War, Writer

TERROR IN THE UK - Survey on Muslim Communities

TERROR IN THE UK - Survey on Muslim Communities

The survey on Muslim communities by Channel 4’s Jon Snow in the light of the events of the 10/08.
The survey published by Channel 4’s Jon Snow on the 7th of August, highlighted what a certain section of the Muslim community made of the last events in Heathrow on the 10th of August. Coincidence, coincidence on […]

Communities, Events, Radical, Television, War

SHOOT THE COMMUNITY? - Shoot the Messenger

SHOOT THE COMMUNITY? - Shoot the Messenger

I wasn’t privy to the preview of the film ‘Shoot the Messenger’ to a floor full of ‘community leaders’, leading lights, notables and other luminaries…
However, what I have to say was that some organizations like Ligali, who I want to stress, usually do a good job, were quick to do the intellectual jump stating that […]

BBC, Drama, Film, Television

THE LADEN SHOWROOM - Clambering Around the Confines of Trendy

THE LADEN SHOWROOM - Clambering Around the Confines of Trendy

Walking down Brick Lane on a Sunday afternoon one might get confronted by an onslaught of the types we tend to associate with the word ‘trendy’. Not that these individuals are want of being type-cast or described within the confines of a word.
‘Trendy’ however, isn’t a word to be taken lightly and those who find […]

Show, Television, Trendy