James Hall

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Simone Biles of the US on the floor during the women’s team final at the World Gymnastics Championships in Doha, Qatar. Photograph: Karim Jaafar/AFP/Getty Images
Biles battles through the pain barrier to help USA win team gold

Simone Biles battled through the pain barrier to help the United States win the world team title at the World Gymnastics Championships in Doha, Qatar,(...)

Paddy Considine in “Journeyman”. Photograph: StudioCanal
Journeyman: An ageing boxer’s life-changing fight

Tyrannosaur, Paddy Considine’s award-winning directorial debut, opened with the film’s troubled, drunken protagonist (a fearless Peter Mullen) kicking(...)

Slow progress: Edwyn Collins in The Possibilities Are Endless, directed by Edward Lovelace and James Hall
Hope and despair: Edwyn Collins puts his poststroke life on film

In a lovelier, livelier version of our world, Mr & Mrs would be prime-time viewing, but with one vital tweak: the only contestants would be Edw(...)

Policemen extinguish a fire burning a police vehicle near the Ferguson City Hall, in Ferguson, Missouri. Photograph: Alexey Furman/EPA.
Ferguson police officer says ‘I did my job right’
  • US
  • November 26, 2014

The police officer involved in the shooting of teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri has said he has a clean conscience over the incident. Darr(...)

SXSW Film: Emjay Anthony and Jon Favreau in “Chef”
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The South By Southwest festival gets most attention for its musical and interactive components, but SXSW Film has been running in Austin since (...)