(Steve McQueen. Photograph: Felix Clay)

Guardian.co.uk: "McQueen's Hunger reveals the artist as a master of cinema - a talent first brought to light by the Turner prize. Steve McQueen's film Hunger is the answer to a lot of questions. Perhaps the most radical and pertinent is one asked by critic Dan Fox in an editorial in this month's issue of Frieze magazine: where's the beef? Where's the content in art now? As the world faces recession, will the clever-clever games of the art world continue to satisfy? Won't people want art to be about something?"

Details for "Hunger": 2008, Ireland, UK, Cert 15, 90 mins, Drama, Dir: Steve McQueen With: Liam Cunningham, Michael Fassbender, Stuart Graham Summary: Drama about the events surrounding the 1981 hunger strike by IRA prisoners, led by Bobby Sands, over conditions at the Maze prison

Related article: McQueen and country "He has won the Turner Prize, been a war artist in Iraq, and is campaigning to put the heads of dead British soldiers on stamps. Now Steve McQueen has made a stunning film about the harrowing lead-up to the starving to death of IRA prisoner Bobby Sands, including a scene that moved him to tears on the set. By Sean O'Hagan"