Released on: 2003
Rating: 6.30
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Oranges and Sunshine wasn't just a false promise
In Jim Loach's film, the hope that young migrants would find a better life in the dominions is a cruel deception – but the reality of child migration was more complicated
According to its star, Emily Watson, Oranges and Sunshine is "about bearing witness to the terrible abuse of innocent children that could have gone without notice". This, then, is no mere mom-with-a-mission melodrama but a serious drama rooted in fact. Yet the nature of the scandal supposedly being laid bare goes mysteriously unexplored.
There's no doubt that bad things happened to many of the orphaned and otherwise disadvantaged children exported from Britain to the dominions between the 1600s and the 1960s. Within living memory, thousands were deposited on the other side of the world without their own or their parents' consent. Some were told that their parents were dead when they weren't. Many were subjected to gross abuse.
How could this have happened?»
- David Cox
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Thor and Green Lantern invading Kapow! Comic Con
Thor and Green Lantern are both set to make this weekend's first ever Kapow! Comic Con an event to remember.Taking place over two jam-packed days, the festival is being overseen by comic guru Mark Millar, and should prove to be a veritable cornucopia of delights for comic and movie fans alike.On the Thor front, both Chris Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleston will be on hand to introduce some exclusive scenes from their movie, as well as heading up an hour-long Marvel Movies panel on Saturday 9 April.Meanwhile, footage from Green Lantern will...
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- Josh Winning
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