Mike Wayne introduces his new film essay The Dialectical Image is a film essay about experience and the aesthetic. I say ‘the’ aesthetic because I am not... Continue reading
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Mike Wayne reviews Allegories of The End of Capitalism: Six Films on the Revolutions of Our Times, by Milo Sweedler, Zero Books 2020 Milo Sweedler’s book is an unfailingly... Continue reading
Mike Wayne weighs the influence of Marxism on film culture Marxist filmmakers, Marxist-influenced culture and Marxist theory, have all had a huge influence on world film culture... Continue reading
Sorry We Missed You is director Ken Loach’s follow-up to his excoriating I, Daniel Blake which exposed how the welfare system has been turned into an apparatus... Continue reading
Mike Wayne reviews Mike Leigh’s new film, a complex, powerful reconstruction of a key historical moment in the ongoing class struggle of the British working class. Most... Continue reading