There are a number of interesting and political films to see at the moment. Here are Socialist Worker’s recommendations.
It should come as no surprise that the media is in crisis. Lies, distortion and omission are all par for the course.
The horrors of war are usually hidden from public gaze. The images we are allowed to see are those of soldiers setting off for war, on parade on their return, and – very occasionally – being carried home in flag-draped coffins.
Baz Luhrmann’s new film is set in the late 1930s in remote northern Australia.
Supertoys exhibition This exhibition looks at the lack of control that children and parents have over the manufacturing of their toys.
For teenagers, few write better than Malorie Blackman. Noughts And Crosses is an original, thought-provoking, emotionally charged story of love, racism and betrayal. The fourth book in the series, Double Cross continues the story.
Sympathetic cinema portraits of great revolutionary figures are rare. So this new film – by Hollywood director Steven Sonderbergh – about Che Guevara, which is released on 1 January, is extremely welcome.
The is the fourth biennial survey of architecture in Scotland. The exhibition comprises film, photography and models to focus on eight recently completed Scottish buildings of note – mainly in the Highlands and Islands – alongside six buildings from mainland Europe.
Dinu Li’s photographic portraits capture people from many of Manchester’s different migrant communities using some of the city’s phonebooth shops to call family and friends abroad.
The December edition of the regular news DVD by the activist video collective is out now.
The Myth of Mars and Venus – by Deborah Cameron Cameron’s book demolishes the notion that men and women have naturally different ways of using language – "the myth of Mars and Venus".
To celebrate the 400th anniversary of John Milton’s birth the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Library mounted a splendid exhibition entitled Citizen Milton.
