The latest adaptation of one of Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh’s books is Filth – a film so filthy that Deborah Ross had to ‘endure’ the film ‘from behind her hands’. But, somewhere amongst the ‘enduring’, she became ‘strangely hooked’, as Bruce Robertson (aka James McAvoy) led her through Edinburgh’s ‘dark underbelly of general horridness’. Filth may be ‘ghastly and unpleasant, but also kind of brilliant’, says Ross. Here’s the trailer:
Breaking Bad started off with mixed reviews and an ‘uncertain future’, as it ‘dumbfounded viewers and critics alike’ – at least according to the economics professor Steffen Huck. But despite all of that, the series went on for 5 seasons, only coming to an end last week. Now that it has ended, Huck explains just what Breaking Bad can teach us about economics – and how Walter White’s choices all make sense to a modern-day economist… well, they did in season one, at least.
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