"White Lightnin' " takes hillbilly chic as far as it can go. British commercials director Dominic Murphy dives into Appalachian poor-white-trash communities like a sex tourist newly arrived in Bangkok ...

British commercials director Dominic Murphy dives into Appalachian poor white trash communities like a sex tourist newly arrived in Bangkok. By Kirk Honeycutt, The Associated Press Berlin ...

Dominic Murphy’s White Lightnin’ and Jamie Jay Johnson’s Sounds Like Teen Spirit took the top prizes at this year’s Dinard British Film Festival, which closed on Saturday October 10. The festival, ...

You wouldn’t expect to see a British actor taking the lead in a tale about the poverty-stricken good ol’ boys of the Appalachian Mountains. But then you wouldn’t expect a film like White Lightnin’ to ...

My second day in Edinburgh is the day where everything kicks off – camera crews are milling about, the red carpet is being hoovered and the three screenings of Away We Go tonight are sold out. The ...

In the early ’90s, back when “going viral” meant you had to hook up two VCRs to dub 8th generation copies of cult classics, a curious piece of Americana brought a little heaven and hell in the ...

"White Lightnin'" comes off patronizing and fatally pretentious in its glimpse of hillbilly hell. That grows problematic when they buy so far into the “mythic” aspects of such culture that portrayals ...

WHITE LIGHTNIN’ DIRECTED BY Dominic Murphy STARRING Edward Hogg, Carrie Fisher There are six “Notable Residents” listed on the Wikipedia page for Bandytown, a 100-strong community in the Appalachian ...

Dir: Dominic Murphy. UK. 2008. 90mins. White Lightnin’ is Dominic Murphy’s fictional tribute to the dancer and violent career criminal Jesco White; it manages to include every negative stereotype ...