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Brian de Palma’s latest film was made for just $5 million using high-definition video and using a cast of unknowns. It is a fictionalised account of a real-life event, concerning the rape of a 15-year-old Iraqi girl and the murder of her family by US troops. The film was fictionalised for legal reasons. It’s presented as a reconstruction of events that has been concocted from a mixture of internet uploads, blogs, a TV documentary and camcorder footage.

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Debbie Tucker-Green’s play is performed by one actress, Nadine Marshall, who plays all four members of a family - Mum, Dad, Sister, Brother – and takes place over the course of what starts out as a normal day but ends in tragedy.

China Design Now
The V&A’s new exhibition, China Design Now, explores the recent explosion of new design in China and looks at the impact of rapid economic development on architecture and design. It focuses on three rapidly expanding cities – Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen – and brings together architecture, fashion, and graphic design, as well as film, photography, youth culture, digital media, and product and furniture design.

The Age of Shiva
Manil Suri is a mathematics professor who found fame when his first book, The Death of Vishnu, became an international bestseller. His latest novel, The Age of Shiva, is the second book in what will eventually be a trilogy. The final book will be called The Birth of Brahma.

The Age of Shiva traces the fortunes of a family in the aftermath of Indian independence. Meera, the narrator, is seventeen years old when she catches her first glimpse of Dev, performing a song so infused with passion that it arouses in her the first flush of erotic longing. When Meera’s reverie comes true, it does not lead to the fairy-tale marriage she imagined. It is only when her son is born that Meera begins to imagine a life of fulfilment, but to the detriment of her child as she begins to smother him with her love.

The Curse of Comedy
This season of dramas on Â鶹Éç Four reveals the turmoil and heartache found behind the laughter created by five great entertainers who rose to fame during the Sixties.

In The Curse of Steptoe Jason Isaacs and Phil Davis portray Harry H Corbett and Wilfrid Brambell, the stars of hit sitcom Steptoe And Son, in a tale of two incompatible men bound together by success.

Hancock and Joan tells the story of Tony Hancock’s love affair with John le Mesurier’s wife and his battle with drink. Ken Stott and Maxine Peake star.