‘She Will’ — atmospheric tale of post-menopausal revenge fantasies on July 20, 2022Director Charlotte Colbert’s first feature, co-written by her and Kitty Percy, brews up a tangy blend of folk horror and post-MeToo reckoning with a salty spike of satire targeting the sort of new age piffle certain entitled rich people swoon over. Protagonist Veronica Ghent is a haughty movie star of a certain age who has […]
Banks accused of letting down online fraud victims on February 8, 2021The phone call was not unexpected, but by the time it ended, Ellen Norton’s* plans to get married and buy her first home were dashed. Norton had responded to an email purporting to be from the courier firm DPD, which informed her she had missed an attempted delivery and would have to pay a small […]
The volunteers welcoming refugees on Canada’s ‘new underground railroad’ on December 26, 2018It was once a vital corridor for Americans seeking to escape slavery. Now a stretch of land in the north-eastern US is in the spotlight again, as thousands traipse across the world’s longest undefended border in search of asylum in Canada. “You can call it the new underground railroad, I think,” said Martha Swan of […]