The Old Oak

Set in a rapidly fading Northern English mining town, this tells the tale of an attempt to integrate some Syrian refugees fleeing the terror in their own country into a community that it still reeling from the systematic closure of their own livelihoods. Much of the story is based around the run-dow...

A lack of familiarity can produce so many needless problems, especially when it involves individuals about whom we know little or nothing. That lack of understanding can consequently yield issues that plainly aren’t warranted and, more importantly, can be easily dispensed with by simply taking the t...

The Old Oak (2023)

Directed by Ken Loach

Unlike most directors, Ken Loach's films are rarely character or narratively driven; he's the master, maybe the creator, of emotionally driven film. Plot is secondary to feeling, structure is secondary to truth. And one thing is absolutely certain...