Pomona Rewind

  From Hollywood child star to indie maverick, Dean Stockwell didn't quite follow the career arc that many would have predicted. Born in Los Angeles in 1936, as a child he worked with Raoul Walsh, Gene Kelly,  Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Elia Kazan, Gregory Peck, Joseph Losey, Pat O'Brien, Richard Widmark and Lionel Barrymore. However later on life, he would become a favourite of the indie set - working with Hollywood rebels like David Lynch, Jonathan Demme, Francis Coppola, Dennis Hopper, Wim Wenders, William Friedkin and Robert Altman. Born in North Hollywood, he came from a showbiz family and divided much of his childhood between Los Angeles and New York.  His father Harry was an actor and baritone who was in the Broadway casts for 'Oklahoma!' and 'Carousel' and was the voice of Prince Charming in Disney's 'Snow White'. Guy, his older brother, also forged a career as an actor and his stepmother Nina Olivette was a burlesque performer, actress

Madeline Albright once observed that it is the cover-up, rather than what is being covered up, that often trips people up. That is the premise of BBC Scotland's four-part drama 'Guilt,' which centres on two brothers Mark Bonnar's Max and Jamie Sives' Jake trying to hide a connection between them and a hit and run. The victim is a man out wandering his street late at night in a quiet, leafy suburban Edinburgh neighborhood. Max is a successful solicitor in a stale marriage to Sian Brooke's Claire. He also has a strained relationship with his younger brother Jake who owns a second hand record store. After getting drunk and argumentative at a wedding, Max is unable to drive. Jake takes his car keys and drives him home when they hit the pedestrian. Panicking because he is uninsured and also has consumed some alcohol, Jake still nevertheless believes they should call the police. Max, however, advises against it and the brothers instead carry the man into his house. On

  It's the moment that many of us dread: a loved one succumbs to a terrible illness and we are cast in the role of principal carer, watching them suffer a long inexorable decline. It is estimated as many as 6.4 million people in the UK are carers – some coping with minimal support from the state or from family members. And as anyone in this situation will tell you, it is physically, mentally and emotionally draining but it also the ultimate expression of love and commitment to a relative.  Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke tackles the challenges of being a carer head on in his latest movie, 'Amour' ('Love') which took the Palme d'Or earlier this year at the Cannes Film Festival. Typically for a Haneke movie, 'Amour' is an uncomfortable watch but it could very well prove to be the film of the year. Haneke is famously anti-Hollywood in his approach to film storytelling. Whereas most mainstream cinema goes for sweeping camera movements and fast cutting, Han