Rita di Santo reviews Young Ahmed, which won the Best Director prize at Cannes recently Like Britain’s Ken Loach, Belgium’s most renowned filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne... Continue reading
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From Cannes, Dennis Broe reviews Ken Loach’s latest film, about the slow breakdown of a family exposed to the ‘freedom’ of the gig economy The first scene... Continue reading
Alejandro Hernandez digs out two important and interlinked political backstories from the Netflix movie Roma, about state-sponsored violence against progressive social movements, and how unequal class and... Continue reading
Jenny Farrell reviews The Student, a modern Russian film which is now available on DVD. Russian cinema today explores capitalism against the backdrop of a past socialist... 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
There is a certain self-satisfaction to our popular culture which I find nauseating. TV and film are used to tell more styles and types of stories than... Continue reading
John Green reviews a new film about the solidarity and courage of some Scots engineering workers who took action against the Chilean military coup of 1973. Nae... Continue reading
Luke Callinan reviews Black 47, a film which reminds us of the brutal and inhuman nature of colonisation. Lance Daly’s Black 47, which was released in September 2018,... Continue reading
Jenny Farrell reviews a new German film about the rise of fascism in Germany. Winner of the Golden Globe for best foreign language film, In the Fade... Continue reading
Dennis Broe traces the history of the representation of labour on screen, and finds inspiration for celebrating May Day and continuing Marx’s struggle against capitalism. This is... Continue reading
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