It’s not every week Hollywood releases a film praising revolution. Rise of the Planet of the Apes, though, places itself firmly on the side of a downtrodden chimp—and sees him lead a powerful ape uprising.
Manchester councillor Pat Karney called the recent riots "one of the worst days in Manchester’s history".
Set against the backdrop of the Chilean coup of 1973, Post Mortem explores a nation torn between left and right.
A mother in Tsarist Russia is drawn into political activism when she sees the state’s treatment of revolutionary workers.
This documentary explores the failed attempt by Jewish lawyer Hans Litten to challenge the rise of Adolf Hitler through the courts in the 1930s.
Nicolas Kent is to stand down from the renowned Tricycle theatre as a result of Tory cuts to the arts.
The stunning Arab Revolutions exhibition shows the ordinary people who have risen up across the region this year.
Now playing as part of the Edinburgh Festival, Dust imagines a day in 2011 when Margaret Thatcher has died.
This 1965 play by left wing playwright Harold Pinter has been revived by the Royal Shakespeare Company.
A shy Muslim from Pakistan, Yusef, joins a hardcore Islamic commune in New York and becomes radicalised.
These are dark days for journalism. As corruption and scandal have spewed out of News International and onto the doorstep of Downing Street, via Scotland Yard, it’s been easy to forget that there is another side to the news.
The nerds have inherited the earth and their obsessions now dominate mainstream Hollywood cinema. As a card-carrying nerd, I don’t have a problem with that.
