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Daily Archives: May 27, 2026
Classic Film Review: The Tragedy of Thatcherism as it Happened — “Looks and Smiles” (1981)
Finding love and then discovering there’s nowhere for it to go thanks to a contracting economy and government hellbent on “breaking” the working class is what Ken Loach’s very fine “Looks and Smiles,” a 1981 classic that offered the first … Continue reading
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