Flicking #62: Civil War (2024)
The most terrifying dystopias are within touching distance of now. And so it is with Alex Garland's Civil War, in which he uses imagined journalists chasing a story in an imagined civil war in an imag...
30 Touko 202531min
The Bush Telegraph: What *is* this, Mary?
How many kids is too many kids? Well, Boris Johnson and the UK Government are pretty divided on the issue. As well as covering the news of possible changes to the current two-child benefit cap, Hannah...
29 Touko 202530min
Rated or Dated: The Witches (1990)
A kids’ film with genuine horror credentials? Don’t Look Now’s Nicolas Roeg directs Roald Dahl’s 1983 tale of one boy (mouse) and his grandma versus a whole coven (convention) of child-killing witches...
28 Touko 202531min
Judith and John(s)
Acclaimed biographer Judith Mackrell makes a second visit to Standard Issue to chat about the Johns, a pair of siblings who went from an unhappy home in Wales to become two of the greatest British pai...
27 Touko 202529min
Lesley Sackey is Fighting Forward
After leaving an abusive relationship, former GB Boxer turned entrepreneur Lesley Sackey found herself living in survival mode – until she realised some of the lessons she’d learned in the ring could ...
26 Touko 202530min
The Bush Telegraph: Be prepared (with teabags and tofu)
Which Standard Issue presenter would survive an apocalypse? Just one of the many important questions Hannah and Mickey are asking in this week's Bush Telegraph. See also: Is America deporting legals? ...
22 Touko 202524min
Rated or Dated: Fame (1980)
Alan Parker’s musical-drama exploded the careers of Irene Cara, Gene Anthony Ray and others, and – thanks to the hit TV series that followed – earned a reputation as a fluffy tale of leg warmers and s...
21 Touko 202527min
Dr Suze Kundu has done her research… on research
In an era where misinformation is rife and spreads at light speed, the role of experts in research is more critical than ever. And yet, historical underrepresentation and systemic biases have led to a...
20 Touko 202526min
