Will Gore, Author at Catholic Herald

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Film: Ukrainian father figure poses a moral dilemma

August 18, 2016

Almost Holy (15, 96 mins, ★★★★) is a documentary about a very unorthodox Ukrainian pastor. Gennadiy Mokhnenko has run Pilgrim, a residential home for children in Mariupol, since 1998. Many of the kids in his care are drug addicts and most of them have been forcibly removed from the streets or squalid homes. To the youngsters, Pastor

Film: Hunger Games knock-off will leave you famished

August 11, 2016

Nerve (15, 96 mins, ★★) As a teenage boy growing up in the 1990s I was duty-bound to love The Word, Channel 4’s deliriously profane Friday night show. Amid the noisy bands and drunken guests, there was a section called “The Hopefuls”, which involved a member of the public doing something disgusting such as eating their own

A sharp comedy for an offence-taking age

August 04, 2016

The Allegations By Mark Lawson, Picador, £16.99 In The Allegations, Ned Marriott, a television historian and university professor, is accused of two counts of historic rape by different old flames. Meanwhile, Tom Pimm, Ned’s fellow lecturer and best mate at the fictional University of Middle England, has a few accusations of his own to deal

Will Gore: Boxer striking a blow for unity

July 28, 2016

The new football season is nearly upon us and with it will come the renewal of one of sport’s most toxic rivalries. Glasgow Rangers have been promoted back to the Scottish Premiership, meaning this season they renew hostilities with cross-city rivals Celtic. Despite improvements over the years, poisonous sectarianism is still very much a feature

Film: An appetite for hard drugs and soft jazz

July 21, 2016

Born to Be Blue stays true to its subject – a musician who conjured great beauty no matter how lost he was

Film: An appetite for hard drugs and soft jazz

July 21, 2016

Born to Be Blue (15, 98 mins) ★★★★ The music biopic is hazardous terrain for any filmmaker to negotiate as it provides so much opportunity for cliché and calamity. Walk the Line did a decent job with Johnny Cash’s story, but for every passable effort there’s plenty more that have fallen by the cinematic wayside.

Mark Duggan: in search of the whole truth

July 14, 2016

The Hard Stop fails to give a truly rounded picture of the man shot dead by London police

Film: Mark Duggan: in search of the whole truth

July 14, 2016

The Hard Stop (15, 85 mins) ★★★ On August 4, 2011, Mark Duggan was shot dead by police on the streets of London. The Met say he was armed at the time; his family and friends insist he wasn’t. The killing sparked off riots across the capital and the rest of the country that left

Film: A beautiful journey into the perilous Arctic

June 16, 2016

With its straightforward story and young heroine, Long Way North (★★★★, cert PG, 82 mins) is unmistakably a children’s film. But grown-ups with a penchant for animated tales of adventure will discover much to love in this shimmering little gem. Sasha, a young 19th-century Russian aristocrat, heads off to the Arctic to search for her

Film: Tom Hanks waits for Godot in the Saudi desert

May 19, 2016

One of my favourite films of the year so far is Anomalisa, Charlie Kaufman’s stop-motion animation about a grumpy motivational speaker losing the plot in a soulless hotel. A Hologram for the King (★★★, cert 12A, 98 mins), based on the 2012 novel by US literary darling Dave Eggers, covers similar ground, telling the story

Film: A ‘boys on tour’ comedy with hidden depths

May 12, 2016

In his critically lauded 2014 film, Boyhood, American writer-director Richard Linklater created a coming-of-age story like no other, filmed as it was over a 12-year period. That epic time-frame is curtailed dramatically in his latest effort Everybody Wants Some!! (15, 117 mins, ★★★), which covers a weekend in the life of a bunch of college frat

Film: Seeing the horror of Auschwitz in a single face

April 28, 2016

In his most recent novel, The Zone of Interest, Martin Amis describes the Sonderkommando, the Jewish inmates put to work in Nazi death camps, quite beautifully. These prisoners were forced to herd new arrivals and clear away lifeless bodies, and in Amis’s words they were “the saddest men in the history of the world”. Son

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