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| | | Johnny Depp appears in Sheffield at Jeff Beck gig ahead of defamation trial verdict | | by Ben Beaumont-Thomas May 30, 2022 | | Depp performs Jimi Hendrix and Marvin Gaye covers with rock guitarist, days after concluding arguments in US case against Amber Heard Johnny Depp made a surprise appearance on stage with rock guitarist Jeff Beck in Sheffield on Sunday night. Singing and playing guitar, Depp performed covers of Jimi Hendrix’s Little Wing and Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On, plus the John Lennon song Isolation, which he and Beck recorded a studio version of in 2020. Continue reading... | | | | | Atoms and Ashes by Serhii Plokhy review – why another nuclear disaster is almost inevitable | | by Robin McKie May 30, 2022 | | A grim account of the downhill slide of atomic power since its heyday in the 1950s illustrates why it can never be the solution to global heating Once hailed as a source of electricity that would be too cheap to meter, atomic power has come a long way since the 1950s – mostly downhill. Far from being cost-free, nuclear-generated electricity is today more expensive than power produced by coal, gas, wind or solar plants while sites storing spent uranium and irradiated equipment litter the globe, a deadly radioactive legacy that will endure for hundreds of thousands of years. For good measure, most analysts now accept that the spread of atomic energy played a crucial role in driving nuclear weapon proliferation. Then there are the disasters. Some of the world’s worst accidents have had nuclear origins and half a dozen especially egregious examples have been selected by Harvard historian Serhii Plokhy to support his thesis that atomic power is never going to be the energy saviour of our imperilled species. Continue reading... | | | | | The Camera Is Ours review – pioneering women film-makers on the issues of their day | | by Peter Bradshaw May 30, 2022 | | This evocative compilation of British documentary shorts, dating from the 1930s to the 1960s, comes with content warnings about racism – though the sexism can be just as shocking Here is a feature-length selection of documentary shorts from Britain’s pioneering women film-makers from the 1930s to the 1960s – a theatrical “touring version” from the Independent Cinema Office, taken from a larger assortment on the BFI’s two-disc DVD release. The directors are very often tackling what were considered – by the male producers, that is – to be the “women’s issues” of the day: motherhood, family, hearth and home. Sometimes these are the explicit themes and sometimes they are a subtext. Two of the films are prefaced with content warnings about racism (though not sexism): a blackface minstrel show in Broadstairs is shown in one film and, in another on obstetric education for working-class women, someone is shown repeating the extraordinary superstition that drinking stout will “give you a black baby” – although, unlike the minstrels, this is clearly signposted in the film itself as bizarre and wrong. Continue reading... | | | | | |
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