Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane McGowan is sad, raucously defiant and blackly funny
Crock of Gold - A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan @CrockofGoldFilm A deep dive into the life of the tortured Irish vocalist, best known as the lead singer and songwriter of the Pogues. Available everywhere 12/4. crockofgoldfilm.com
Widely regarded as the greatest film ever made, Citizen Kane (1941) was written by Orson Welles and Herman Mankiewicz. Or was it? (15A) centres on the boozy veteran screenwriter Mankiewicz (Gary Oldman), who is deposited in the desert with a typewriter and commissioned by Welles (Tom Burke) to write a screenplay about the newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst (Charles Dance). Matters are complicated from the off: bedridden as a result of an automobile accident, Mank has a complicated history with Hollywood in general, and with Hearst and his mistress, the actress Marion Davies (Amanda Seyfried), in particular.
