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
To mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx this year, John Green gives a brief outline of some of the influences of Marxist thought on... Continue reading
Scott McLemee reviews The Young Karl Marx, which, on the eve of 200th anniversary of Marx’s birth, contains themes of economic crises and inequalities that remain relevant... Continue reading
Gerry Rowe is disappointed by The Death of Stalin. In Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin’s ‘Drop the Dead Donkey’, the object of satire is a thoroughly British... Continue reading
Daniel Clarkson Fisher reviews Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk, and discusses the moral obligations of the artist, the WW2 combat genre, and the potential for a ‘truly radical flowering’... Continue reading
Michael Roberts reviews the recently released Dunkirk. Taught to children in schools up and down the country, the evacuation of Dunkirk is ingrained into the very culture... Continue reading
John Green outlines the role of film in the Bolshevik Revolution, and the profound and lasting influence of Russian revolutionary film-makers on cinema not only in the... Continue reading
Jenny Farrell explains how Leviathan reveals the nature of capitalism. The dystopias of the mid-20th century, Brave New World (1932) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), described with astonishing... Continue reading