Warwick’s VC predicts growing privatisation of universities
Professor Nigel Thrift claims universities will become increasingly privatised as public funding dries up
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Alex King
Flatpack Unpacked: Alex King discovers pandemics, parties and plasticine
The last time Birmingham found its way onto the cinematic map was in 1970, for all the wrong reasons with Cliff Richard’s Take Me High. More famous for its spaghetti junctions, cinema is not something people think about when they think of Birmingham. But courtesy of Flatpack Festival, for one...
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Flatpack Unpacked: Ian Francis Interview
_Boar_ film catches up with former Warwick student and founder of Flatpack Film Festival, Ian Francis
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Flatpack Festival 2010
The UK's coolest film festival returns to Birmingham
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A Bright Future
We present the _Boar_’s British Film Campaign preview for 2010
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Hope, glory and celluloid success
As our indigenous cinema enjoys a spell of particularly rude health, Alex King looks at the state of the industry and argues the case for British Cinema
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Secrets and lies
Mike Leigh is the master of British Film’s great tradition: social realism. Anyone fighting to suppress a yawn at that less than exciting label would be forgiven, but Leigh proves it can be produce some great stories. With the precision of a surgeon Leigh peels back the layers to discover...
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Hunger
Nothing can prepare you for Hunger. Turner Prize winner Steve McQueen’s directorial debut is quite simply the most powerful British film I’ve ever seen. Dealing with one of the most troubling events of the Northern Irish conflict, Bobby Sands’ 1981 prison hunger strike that eventually resulted in his death, this...
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Fish Tank
Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank is remarkable in its unflinchingly gritty, yet often beautiful evocation of modern life on a council estate in Dagenham, Essex. The plot centres around fifteen year old Mia (played by newcomer Katie Jarvis, who Arnold discovered arguing with her boyfriend on a station platform), a girl...
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Hollywood Dreaming
Darren Aronofsky's mezmerizing collection of films leave Alex King waiting with baited breath for his forthcoming Robocop 'reboot'.
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Come back fighting
Mickey Rourke makes an outstanding return to acting's top flight with an incredible performance as Randy "The Ram" Robinson, writes Alex King.
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‘If it can be written or thought it can be filmed’
Alex King continues the Boar's director profiles with a look at the ever-controversial works of Stanley Kubrick.
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