One of the UK's most promising young actresses says she took the role of a bullied teenager in the film Pin Cushion to try to find "closure" for her own upsetting childhood experiences. Lily Newmark, ...

Pin Cushion starts in Indie 101 territory. Mother and daughter, the mother in odd shoes, the daughter in a pink knitted bobble hat, are driving in a camper van carrying a bird cage. It could be the ...

A moving, complex mother-daughter study is occasionally swamped by the hyper-twee styling of Deborah Haywood's thoroughly singular debut. Cinema was littered with tales of teenage mean girls well ...

Small-minded, smalltown Britain is the setting for Deborah Haywood’s impressive debut feature, which successfully balances fairytale whimsy with dark realism. Teenaged Iona (striking newcomer Lily ...