Francis Smith, Author at Counteract – Music | News | Food

Despite a narrow and unconvincing analysis of its anti-hero, Mrs America is a timely and sensationally executed drama.

Feature: The morality of screenwriting your trauma in I May Destroy You

In I May Destroy You, Michaela Coel asks whether processing the trauma of sexual assault through screenwriting the answer to recovery.

From Sports Team to Idles and Disclosure to Laura Marling, these tracks were on hand to perk us up during these strange times we now live in.

As a direct result of the coronavirus pandemic, a number of grassroots music venues in and around Birmingham could be just ‘weeks away from closure’

As lockdown limits face-to-face contact, we revisit the resonance of landmark movie My Dinner With Andre in an era of cyber exchanges.

Despite COVID-19, Supersonic Festival brought new music and more to around six-thousand fans through a weekend of live streams.

Birmingham based punk trio Bad Girlfriend are back with their sludgiest, riffiest single yet.

The record label and collective are raising money for local music venues and self employed musicians with a new bumper compilation.

From 17th-19th July, they’re bringing you the finest in experimental art and music with Sofasonic Festival, all via YouTube and Zoom

We’re looking at a John Hughes classic in this Lockdown Looking Glass, as we reconsider the ’80s joy of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.