Film & Books
Open Heritage Days: Free film screening 'The Home Front in Buckinghamshire' at MK Gallery
Our Country at War: The Home Front in Buckinghamshire 1914-1918 is showing at MK Gallery tonight (Friday, September 9) as part of the Open Heritage Days events rolling out across Milton Keynes in the coming days....
Competition: Win copies of David Bowie, Changes: His Life in Pictures
He pushed boundaries - with his music, with his mind, and with his fashion. There have been wannabes and pale imitations, but there will never be another quite like David Bowie....
MK Heritage Open Days: Enjoy a free screening of Milton Keynes through the Lens at Odeon Cinema
This film is a compilation spanning the last 70 years. Featuring clips such a VE day party in Wolverton; the opening of the M1; adverts selling Milton Keynes to the wider world; building of the roads and estates, and the last Aston Martin to leave the production line....
Film: Bollywood gets a radical overhaul with action drama Akira
AKIRA is a gripping action drama about a college girl Akira whose life spirals out of control when she becomes unwittingly involved in a crime. Now with a gang of corrupt police officers giving her the chase, and with no one to turn to, Akira will have to find in herself the courage and the power to stand up and face her enemies....
In Review: War Dogs hits the big screen
When a film draws its inspiration from an article in Rolling Stone magazine with the headline 'The Stoner Arms Dealers: How Two American Kids Became Big-Time Weapons Traders' you know two things. One: drugs will feature in the film at some point. Two: Jonah Hill probably stars in it....
Badgered to Death: New book lifts the lid on the persecution of the beautiful animals
The badger is being blamed for spreading tuberculosis among cattle, and only last week the government approved an extended cull. In reality, the animals - a protected species - are another victim of the intensive livestock industry, and they’ve faced persecution for the past four decades....
