After violence at a showing of ‘Blue Story,’ that saw police with tasers frightening young cinema-goers, the BBC, which backed the gang film financially, has been running with wild claims of racism against the Vue cinema chain. Following a fight at the Star City screening of ‘Blue Story,’ police arrested five teenagers and took away two machetes and a knife which they found... 

A guesthouse in Munich, Germany, was the scene of a brutal attack upon a caretaker by a machete-wielding Iraqi suspect, according to local media. An argument regarding a defective sprinkler system between the female owner of the boarding house and suspect led to the arrival of a janitor attempting to mitigate the dispute. “In the course of the verbal altercation, the suspect suddenly punched... 

A 47-year-old man has been taken to hospital with wounds to the face following an attack by a machete-wielding man at a McDonald’s in Sheffield, England, according to police and local media. The suspect, 21, was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, possession of a knife or bladed article and possession of drugs, according to South Yorkshire Police. Photos from the scene depict a large blade... 

Recorded machete attacks in the UK have shot up by nearly five times in just three years, with the majority in the capital, London. The huge number of crimes committed with the deadly, sword-like weapons means there is an average of 15 a day in the UK, or one every 90 minutes. Figures uncovered using freedom of information requests by the Daily Mail show that police dealt with 928 crimes involving... 

One could figure that the current drug-war in Mexico, nearly 30,000 people murdered in just three years, would generate a cultural reaction. And one could further figure, of course, that the tens of millions of people who have crossed the U.S.-Mexican border in recent decades would have an enormous cultural impact, including on the movies. But who knew that Hollywood would blame everything that’s...