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2 February 2022
Belfast: Worth watching portrayal of previously airbrushed workers' unity
Film review: Belfast: Kenneth Branagh's semi-biographical film opens with images of modern-day Belfast, and then moves back in time (in black and white) to 15 August 1969, and the soundtrack of Van Morrison.
12 January 2022
Don't Look Up: An entertaining satire on corporate power and the US establishment
Film: 'Don't Look Up': The movie satire, 'Don't Look Up', became a major hit over the Christmas holiday season. The dark comedy, written and directed by Adam McKay, concerns a desperate attempt by scientists to alert the
8 December 2021
Film review: The Harder They Fall
'The Harder They Fall' is a new Western on Netflix. The movie sets are stylised and the gunfights are majestically choreographed. But the film also stands out for its all-black cast, something that is
22 September 2021
TV Review - Help: Heart-wrenching portrayal of Covid care home crisis
'Help' is a heart-wrenching story of a care home in Liverpool for people with dementia. When the Covid-19 crisis hits the home, the main protagonist, Sarah, is faced with loss, pressure and difficult
25 August 2021
Martin Eden is an Italian film based on Jack London's 1909 novel. I highly recommend it. Jack London set his novel in the US, the film moves the story to Naples in the 1920s and 1930s.
26 May 2021
Sombre poem on human connection and solidarity: After the Great Recession of 2008 hit, the factory at the heart of Empire was shut down. Fern, a widow in her sixties, is suddenly compelled to leave the town she built her life around, taking off in her
24 March 2021
A springboard for discussion about sexism in schools: Netflix's new film Moxie, based upon a book of the same name, might provide a springboard for further discussions around sexism in schools but does not, as one reviewer put it "offer a blueprint for a revolution."
17 March 2021
Film Review: Before watching the movie, my expectations were set low by Hollywood's history of diluting radical politics, but also by the movie's soundtrack which included track names like "Rich N*gga Problems"
24 February 2021
The White Tiger, a film based on the bestselling novel by Aravind Adiga, depicts the story of a young man's bid to overcome caste and social oppressions to become a self-made person.
17 February 2021
The film 'Dear Comrades', produced by the Russian film-maker Andrei Konchalevsky, came out last year and won the Special Jury Prize at the 2020 Venice Film Festival.
9 December 2020
TV review: Red, White and Blue
More than just diversity - we need democratic, working-class control of the police: The BBC recently aired the film 'Red, White and Blue' from the Steve McQueen mini-series 'Small Axe'
2 December 2020
The Social Dilemma is a film recently produced by Netflix, exploring the impact of social media on society
25 November 2020
CripTales: A painful reflection of a system that pits us against each other
To mark the 25th anniversary of the Disability Discrimination Act, the BBC has produced a series of short films called 'CripTales'
7 October 2020
Film: 'Sick' - 'They've got people looking in the wrong direction'
'Sick' is a heart-wrenching drama/documentary that uses the real stories of benefit claimants battling, and sometimes losing to, the system to claim Personal Independence Payment, and also work capability assessments for Employment Support Allowance.
22 July 2020
Exciting Cuban spy thriller exposes US-sponsored terrorism
Action-packed and exciting, Wasp Network is a spy thriller that tells the story of the 'Cuban Five'
17 June 2020
Film: Da 5 Bloods - entertaining but politically constrained
Spike Lee's new film 'Da 5 Bloods', featuring four black American army veterans of the Vietnam War who meet up again in modern-day Ho Chi Minh City, has been released on Netflix just as racism and the class system that ferments it are in the forefront of the minds of millions of people
11 March 2020
Film: Greed directed by Michael Winterbottom
It was refreshing to watch a mainstream film exposing the madness and exploitative nature of the capitalist system, writes Barbara Clare, Stevenage.
26 February 2020
A jury in New York City found Harvey Weinstein guilty of rape and sexual assault on 24 February. More trials are ahead for the multimillionaire film producer.
19 February 2020
Brilliant Korean film exposes class inequality
Cinema - Parasite: It's the rich who are the real parasites
30 October 2019
Film reviews: Sorry We Missed You by Ken Loach
"A stark reminder of the inhumane lengths bosses will go to under capitalism to increase their profits": "Let's get one thing straight, you don't work for us, you work with us". Those words from the boss's mouth in the opening scene of Sorry We Missed You get turned into a sick joke over the course of the film
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