Trump’s foreign film tariffs could ‘wipe out’ UK movie industry, ministers told

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Union warns that 100% levy could be ‘knockout blow’ and urges government to defend sector and those who work in it US politics live – latest updates Donald Trump’s threat to impose 100% tariffs on movies made outside the US could wipe out the UK film industry, ministers have been warned, as they came under immediate pressure to prioritise the issue in trade talks with the White House. UK government officials and senior figures from Britain’s multibillion-pound production industry are to meet imminently to discuss Trump’s threat, which he made after months of promising to restore Hollywood to its “golden age”. Continue reading... from Film | The Guardian https://ift.tt/5ZJaT1X via IFTTT
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Herd review – folk-indie vibe dominates queer backwoods zombie thriller

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Despite a fairly predictable story, first-time director Steven Pierce makes some interesting tweaks to the formula with a final act that confounds expectations

Like every zombie-themed movie ever, this low-budget American feature directed by debutant Steven Pierce (co-written by Pierce and James Allerdyce) has a subtext; this one so close to the surface it’s barely sub, about schisms that divide communities. Quite often, the factions in zombie stories cleave along class lines or ethnicity. But Herd mixes the formula up in a number of interesting ways; for starters, by casting as the heroines lesbian spouses Jamie (Ellen Adair) and Alex (Mitzi Akaha), city dwellers on a camping trip trying to heal marital wounds after the loss of a child.

Thus the women are already semi-outsiders in rural Missouri where they’re visiting, although it’s near where Jamie grew up. Not that this puts her more at ease, given an abusive childhood growing up with her father, Robert, (Corbin Bernsen), that inclines Jamie to be suspicious of the locals and assume the worst of people, sometimes with justification and sometimes not.

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