Perennial candidate for public office in Richmond and beyond Mike Dickinson was found guilty on Wednesday of two misdemeanor counts of inadequate care of animals, and ordered to pay a $200 fine.

That may not be enough to justify his persecution complex, but Dickinson’s terrific debut insists that the view from our side of the screen is just as clear as the one from Mike’s.

Though Dickinson himself takes a minor role as a fellow street denizen and frenemy of Mike’s — apparently only after another actor fell through for the part — he exercises commendable ...

HARRIS DICKINSON I started writing it about six years ago. Mike was always a character in it, but originally it was a loose two-hander, a different form, but I really needed it to be Mike’s story.

Going even further, while Dickinson has drawn some comparisons to the work of the great director Mike Leigh, the film that was most rattling around my head while watching this was Danny Boyle’s ...

Cannes: Even though Dickinson will star as John Lennon in four Beatles films, he says he'll still be able to write and direct. “The applause was lovely,” said Dickinson, sitting with Dillane ...

By David Rooney Chief Film Critic Dickinson’s protagonist, Mike, is an addict trying — with fluctuating degrees of commitment — to break the pattern of self-destruction that seems baked into ...

Of course, "Urchin" is all the more rewarding for its messy approach to Mike's disarray, which rejects a clear diagnosis in favor of honoring a character who feels like he can't even afford to ...

Hunter Dickinson recently capped off his college basketball career, having played for the Kansas Jayhawks and Michigan Wolverines. Dickinson spent his last two seasons at Kansas, playing under ...

Or were you deliberately trying to shut out the comparisons? DICKINSON: Obviously, I grew up on the likes of Mike Leigh, Shane Meadows and Ken Loach, and I was really enthralled by that kind of ...

Written by Dickinson, “Urchin” sees Dillane play Mike, a rough sleeper in the British capital trapped in a cycle of self-destruction as he attempts to turn his life around following a spell in ...

Dickinson’s screenplay astutely refuses to fill in Mike’s backstory – the film, like the character, exists entirely in the present (understandably, Mike finds it easier to blank out the bad ...