China’s scale is as imposing as it is surprising. Most Westerners won’t have heard of the city of Chengdu, never mind be able to place it on a map. And yet it’s massive – home to a population about two times greater than that of London’s. Understanding China can sometimes feel like an exercise in…
Do we control our own destinies? Movie Mondays features The Iron Claw, a biopic of the Von Erich professional wrestling clan, which explores brotherly love and the struggle to break free from our fate.
There’s a prevailing trend in documentary making these days where the narrator becomes part of the story in a fusion of self-promotion and naked bias. Personally, I blame Super Size Me (2004). I feel a hot take brewing, but while that’s still on the boil it’s a return to inertia’s much-neglected Movie Mondays. For this…