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The U.S. Has a Troublesome Asian Ally Against China

The Philippines is using U.S. military infrastructure to commit human rights violations.

Foreign Policy

'Pam & Tommy' 're-traumatized' Pamela Anderson. Her Netflix doc shows it in real time

When filmmaker Ryan White was an adolescent in the mid-'90s, Pamela Anderson was one of the most famous women in the world — a Playboy cover girl who rose to international superstardom as lifeguard C.J. Parker in the syndicated mega-hit "Baywatch," married Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee after a whirlwind…

Los Angeles Times

Netflix's Pamela, A Love Story overturns stereotypes about victims of intimate partner abuse

Pamela Anderson’s Netflix documentary is worth watching for many reasons, but one of the greatest lessons it has to offer is what a victim-survivor of intimate partner abuse looks like: resilient, resourceful, eternally optimistic and compassionate.

The Conversation

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Key question at Alec Baldwin’s criminal trial: Is he to blame for Halyna Hutchins’ death?

The criminal case prosecutors are filing against Alec Baldwin will turn on the same question that has dogged the actor since the day he shot cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the New Mexico set of the film “Rust”: Is he responsible for her death?

Los Angeles Times

Actor Brandon Lee was killed by a prop gun, years before the 'Rust' shooting death

In an accident similar to Alec Baldwin's shooting of Halyna Hutchins, Lee's co-star fired a prop gun at the 28-year-old actor during filming of The Crow.

WEKU

My Old School: The incredible story of how a 32-year-old man fooled teachers into believing he was a teenager

Documentary airing on BBC Two tells the story of Brian MacKinnon, AKA Brandon Lee

The Independent UK

My Old School: The incredible story of how a 32-year-old man fooled teachers into believing he was a teenager

Documentary airing on BBC Two tells the story of Brian MacKinnon, AKA Brandon Lee

The Independent UK

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That diary was tangible proof that exciting things were about to happen – the Christmas present I’ll never forget

I wrote about watching Swap Shop and Rod Stewart’s birthday. But what strikes me now are the things I left out

The Guardian - UK

My Old School: full cast list, where and when to watch

The film includes a real audio interview with Brian MacKinnon, who enrolled as a 16-year-old pupil at Glasgow’s Bearsden Academy in 1995, when he was 30.

Daily Record

The most exciting upcoming horror movies coming in 2026 and beyond

From Resident Evil to Werwulf, here are all the new horror movies coming our way in 2026 and 2027

Total Film

What critics and film-goers are saying about Brandon Lee documentary My Old School

The new documentary tells the tale of Brandon Lee, a 30-year-old man who tricked Bearsden Academy into believing he was a fifth-year student - but, what are people saying about it now that the hotly-anticipated film has been released?

Glasgow Live

My Old School review – deft documentary on a notorious schoolboy imposter

Animation, interviews and a lip-syncing Alan Cumming tell the true tale of a grown man who passed himself off as a pupil at a Glasgow high school

The Guardian - UK

Man, 30, posed as a teen to rejoin old school and went unnoticed for two years

Brian was 30 when he rejoined and 32 when he gained five top marks in his Highers, the equivalent of A-levels.

Irish Mirror

My Old School director Jono McLeod on stranger-than-fiction film's release

We sat down with local director Jono McLeod to discuss the release of his new documentary My Old School, telling the incredible story of Brandon Lee, the 32-year-old man who enrolled at a Glasgow secondary.

Glasgow Live

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‘A damaged person’: Alan Cumming on playing the schoolboy who was actually 30

In 1993, a 16-year-old pupil at a Glasgow school was unmasked as a fully grown adult. Now his classmates have made a documentary – My Old School – about the astonishing deception

Boston Herald

Movie review: Semi-animated doc ‘My Old School’ a stunning tale of deception

What kind of documentary do you have if the person your film is about is played by an actor lip-syncing that person’s words? This is only one of the intriguing questions posed by “My Old School,” a film in which all the flashbacks are at first animated and the animated…

The National (Scotland)

Clare Grogan makes a return as the queen of pop with Altered Images

CLARE Grogan was starring in Neil Simon’s rom-com Barefoot In the Park at the 2020 Pitlochry Festival Theatre when lockdown kicked in.

Daily Mirror

Who is the real Brandon Lee from Netflix's My Old School and what is he doing now?

Netflix’s latest documentary, My Old School, charts the bizarre true story of a 30-year-old man disguising himself as a schoolboy. After two years he was exposed, and one of his former classmates is behind the film

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Glasgow Live

Incredible story of Glasgow's 30-year-old schoolkid set for New York premiere

My Old School tells the tale of Brandon Lee, a 30-year-old who posed as a high school student in the 90s - and is set to premiere in New York on July 22, with Lee voiced by Hollywood actor Alan Cumming.

Glasgow Live

Movie about Glasgow schoolboy imposter Brandon Lee premieres at Film Festival

In 1995 Brandon Lee managed to convince a school in Bearsden he was a 16-year-old student from Canada. Alan Cumming, who voices the imposter in the new film, spoke on the red carpet about the 'legendary' story.

Daily Record

Alan Cumming believes 'legendary' Brandon Lee story caught Scotland by surprise

The actor was on the red carpet for My Old School the film about Bearsden's Brian Mackinnon.

Salon

An imposter who fooled a Scottish school

Alan Cumming appears in a documentary about a man who perpetuated a deception, and how people chose to believe him

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