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John Quin , April 10th, 2021 14:13 Medic turned critic, John Quin recalls his time at Glasgow Royal Infirmary in the early 80s in an exclusive extract from his new book, Dr Quin Medicine Man Photo by: Daniel Naczk. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 Glasgow has had a gang problem for years, razor boys like the Tongs and the Fleet. There’s maybe a hundred or more with daft names like the Sighthill Mafia, the Young Shettleston Tigers, the Carmyle Tahiti. Back in the 80s the top gangster was Arthur Thompson. He might nail you to a floor. Drug rivalries made the city ripe for turf war...

Saturday: Apocalypse Now: The Final Cut (1979) BBC2, 11.00pm - Director Francis Ford Coppola added 30 extra minutes to his Vietnam war epic, and now there's a chance to see it in all its glory. Martin Sheen plays Captain Willard, an assassin assigned to find and kill the renegade Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), who is believed to have descended into insanity. Winner of two Oscars, including Best Cinematography, and two Baftas, it has gone on to influence countless movies, from Tropic Thunder and Avatar, to the more recent Ad Astra. Dennis Hopper, Harrison Ford and Laurence Fishburne also star,...

Where’s it on? BBC2, Sunday, 1.55am Never one for staying still, French director François Ozon rivals our own Michael Winterbottom for the sheer variety of projects on his CV and the speed with which he seems to bang them out. Not to get stuck in the rut making the erudite comedies and erotic thrillers that had shaped his 2010s up to this point, he turned his attentions to this very sober, mournful and elegant romantic drama set in the immediate aftermath of the First World War. Shot mainly in black and white and in German, it’s a loose remake of Ernst Lubitsch’s 1932 fil...

20 Things You Somehow Missed In Apocalypse Now A film as surreal and complex as Apocalypse Now is bound to have many fascinating secrets. United Artists Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola's epic Vietnam War film, was notoriously difficult for the director to complete. With major cost overruns, demolished sets, and the near death of one of the primary actors, the film serves as a metaphor for the war itself: a massive undertaking that spiralled out of control, with no clear end in sight. Loosely adapted from Joseph Conrad's 1899 novella Heart of Darkness, the film tells the tale of U.S. Arm...

Forever from everything you had known once." so conrad described the congo after piloting steam ships in the early days of belgian colonialism. i've had something of a multi-decade obsession with the congo. it's been kind of a, a personal dream, if you will, to travel the congo river. and now, for better or worse, i get that chance. we've rented a trusty vessel, and i shall dub thee the captain willard. all right, did you maggots load the chickens? finding food along the way, it's anticipated, will be a challenge. refrigeration of any kind is impossible. okay. well, i'm psyched. my dream has f...