Welcome to Culture Vulture, your guide to the week's entertainment from an alternative standpoint. Music is by Tim Bragg and selections and writing are by Pat Harrington. Highlights this week include: 1973 film “Papillon" which chronicles the gripping tale of Henri Charrière (played by Steve McQueen), a safecracker unjustly imprisoned for life in French Guiana; “Dark Waters”, the 2019 American legal thriller dramatizing Robert Bilott’s case against the chemical manufacturing corporation DuPont after they contaminated a town with unregulated chemicals; and, Kurt Cobain: Moments That Shook Music, a documentary on BBC2 examining his tragic death. A transcript is available here: https://wp.me/pIv9X-s5t

Welcome to Culture Vulture, your guide to the week's entertainment from an alternative standpoint. Music is by Tim Bragg and selections and writing is by Pat Harrington. Highlights this week include “Unlocked: A Jail Experiment”, a Netflix documentary series that takes viewers inside the walls of an Arkansas detention facility to witness a radical social experiment granting incarcerated men more agency, eight episodes of Fallout on Amazon Prime based on the post-apocalyptic video game, and Defiance: Fighting The Far Right, a three part series from Channel 4. A transcript is available here

Welcome to Culture Vulture, your guide to the week's entertainment from an alternative standpoint. Selections and writing are by Pat Harrington and music is by Tim Bragg. Highlights this week include: eight episodes of Ripley on Netflix, a captivating limited series that unravels the treacherous world of deceit, murder, and secrets, with Andrew Scott’s menacing charm at its core, and the 1954 classic film, On The Waterfront. A transcript is available here: https://wp.me/pIv9X-s4x

Welcome to Culture Vulture your guide to the week's entertainment from an alternative viewpoint. Highlights this week include the films The Girl With A Bracelet (2019) and Gagarine (2020), and the six-part documentary Lincoln: Divided We Stand. Selections and writing are by Pat Harrington and music is from Tim Bragg. A transcript is available here

Welcome to Culture Vulture your guide to the week's entertainment from an alternative viewpoint. Highlights this week include the films The Girl With A Bracelet (2019) and Gagarine (2020), and the six-part documentary Lincoln: Divided We Stand. Selections and writing are by Pat Harrington and music is from Tim Bragg.

Welcome to Culture Vulture, your guide to the week's entertainment from an alternative viewpoint. Writing and selections are by Pat Harrington and music is by Tim Bragg. Highlights this week include: Royal Kill List, a landmark Sky HISTORY original series that chronicles King Charles II’s relentless pursuit to avenge his father’s killers, Chopper (2000) the Australian crime drama film based on the autobiographical books by criminal-turned-author Mark “Chopper” Read and Turning Point: The Bomb And The Cold War on Netflix. A transcript is available here:

Welcome to Culture Vulture, your guide to the week's entertainment from an alternative standpoint. Writing and selections are by Pat Harrington and music is by TIm Bragg. Highlights this week include: The Third Man (1949) – Directed by Carol Reed, this cinematic gem weaves intrigue, betrayal, and post-war shadows in the hauntingly atmospheric city of Vienna. Down The Tracks: The Music That Influenced Bob Dylan and, Our Dirty War: The British State & The IRA. A transcript is available here: https://countercultureuk.com/2024/02/29/culture-vulture-2-8-march-2024/

Welcome to Culture Vulture, your guide to the week's entertainment from an alternative standpoint. Highlights this week include First Ladies Of Hip-Hop, Nelson In His Own Words and Don't Look Now. Selections and writing is by Pat Harrington and music is by Tim Bragg. A transcript is available here

Welcome to Culture Vulture, your guide to the week's entertainment from an alternative standpoint. Highlights this week include the 2019 film Boiling Point, a tense and gripping drama that follows a dedicated sushi chef as he navigates the pressures and challenges of a busy London restaurant on a fateful night; "Ophelia" a film reimagining of Shakespeare's classic "Hamlet" from the perspective of the tragic character Ophelia; and "The Guard", a darkly comedic crime thriller that pairs an unorthodox Irish policeman with an uptight FBI agent to unravel a drug smuggling operation in a small coastal town. Selections and writing are by Pat Harrington and music is by Tim Bragg. A transcript is available here

Welcome to Culture Vulture your guide to the week's from an alternative standpoint. Highlights this week include: Storyville: Tanja: Terrorist Or Freedom Fighter; Unsung Heroines: Danielle De Niese On The Lost World of Female Composers; and Raging Bull, a gritty and emotionally charged biographical drama that explores the turbulent life of Jake LaMotta. Selections are by Pat Harrington and music is by Tim Bragg. A transcript is available here