by Mairéad Roche
10 October 2013
In 2009 the American cargo ship, MV Maersk Alabama, was boarded by a group of Somali pirates in international waters off the Horn of Africa. The subsequent hostile takeover led to a determined American naval intervention centred around the ship’s captain, Richard Philips.
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by Silvia Felce
15 October 2012
Reality could not be more different from Matteo Garrone’s previous film, mafia drama Gomorrah, although it does share the same neorealist aesthetic, showing once again another crude and sincere image of Italy.
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