bloodboiling

‘My name is Maureen Kearney. I didn’t lie. I didn’t make anything up.” This French drama about a blood-boiling real-life case of injustice is the story of whistleblower and rape survivor Maureen Kearney, who for four years lived with a criminal record: falsely convicted of wasting police time, accused of inventing her rape. It’s a political thriller that tells the story matter-of-factly, and is perhaps a little lacking in the pace department. But Isabelle Huppert carries it along with a performance every bit as gripping…

Something must have gone seriously wrong inside Sheffield council. What on earth possessed them to give the OK to chopping down up to 17,500 roadside trees in the city, then go after locals who peacefully protested? The battle to stop Sheffield’s controversial tree felling programme is told in this blood-boiling documentary, assembled from footage shot by local photographer Jacqui Bellamy. It’s entirely one-sided, told from the perspective of Team Trees. Though frankly, it’s hard to imagine what the council or its private…