The Japanese phenomenon of short stay ‘love hotels’ is the focus of a new documentary by Hackney’s Native Voice Films
Child rearing anxiety, the meltdown of an obsessive Kate Bush fan, and a teacher who turns into a troll, all feature in Brave New Work season of one act plays
From The Krays to Snatch, East London has provided inspiration for countless films about organised crime, but as local identity shifts is it time to consign the genre to history?
Among the 100 features and 80 short films shown during last month’s East End Film Festival a trio of films stood out
Hackney writer’s helpline-inspired short film The Phone Call is an emotional tear jerker
Hackney’s Finest by Lord of the Rings director Chris Bouchard has already caused a stir with its graphic portrayal of drug dealers and criminality
The year-long project to commemorate the writer’s seventieth birthday in which he chose 70 films to be screened across the capital ends this month
Home Alone star plays set with his comedy band The Pizza Underground at the launch of a new pizza joint in Clapton
The Whitechapel Gallery’s retrospective of French filmmaker and artistic visionary Chris Marker is a celebration of a provocative and sprawling body of work
A priest faces a deadly showdown with a parishioner in John Michael McDonagh’s satirical drama
‘It’s much easier to build resentment on the care system than it is on your parents,’ says Jenny Molloy
Jenny Molloy talks about finding forgiveness and acceptance after growing up in care and her mixed feelings about returning to East London
