Film

The new blockbuster cuts major parts of the original poem
Reviews & Culture

Nolan’s Odyssey fails to grasp today’s crises or the poem’s enduring power

A review of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey
09 August 2026
Charlie Chaplin uses humour to show the horrors of Hitler’s Germany in The Great Dictator (Photo: WikipediaCommons)
Reviews & Culture

Frames of resistance—looking at films against fascism

These films remind us that we fought—and we won. And we will win again
21 July 2026
The six of the Filton24 facing retrial
Palestine & Middle East

Filton 24 film puts the criminals on trial

A review of Operation Recomply
09 June 2026
outraged lawyer Alexander Kornyev, played by Aleksandr Kuznetsov, trapped in a bureaucratic maze
Reviews & Culture

A damning indictment of the brutality of Stalin’s show trials

A review of Two Prosecutors
10 May 2026
Benjamin Voisin as Meursault (Photo: WikipediaCommons)
Reviews & Culture

Anti-colonialism sharply reimagined for today

A review of the new adaptation of Albert Camus' The Stranger
04 May 2026
The tables were turned—now the police were kettled by the people
Anti-racism

Everybody to Kenmure Street: the street that would not be divided

New film tells story of Glasgow’s 2021 Kenmure Street rebellion
21 March 2026
Orwell 2+2=5 refuses to turn away from reality
Reviews & Culture

New Orwell documentary gives damning political analysis

Plus: a review of Wasteman
16 March 2026
Louis Theroux—Inside the Manosphere is on Netflix now
Reviews & Culture

Theroux sorely fails to challenge misogyny in Manosphere documentary

It completely misses the mark
15 March 2026
Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as Cathy and Heathcliff
Reviews & Culture

Spineless adaptation kills book’s social comment

Review of new Wuthering Heights film
28 February 2026
The film echoing some of director Akinola Davies Jr and his brother's real childhood experiences
Reviews & Culture

A dreamlike journey through Nigerian childhood

Review of new film My Father's Shadow
28 February 2026
Nothing can quite capture the tragedy of Hind’s death
Reviews & Culture

‘Reality of genocide in a way that escapes words’: The Voice of Hind Rajab

It speaks for itself and allows Hind to do so too
03 February 2026
The critics reveal that many still think women are hysterica
Reviews & Culture

Shakespearean tragedy shows the power of female grief

Plus: The legacy of Paul Robeson
30 January 2026
Seymour Hersh
Reviews & Culture

New documentary celebrates legendary anti-war journalist

Plus reviews of Poison Water and Avatar: Fire and Ash
18 January 2026
News Image
Reviews & Culture

The risks, violence and trauma of Trespasses

Plus: A review of Belen
12 December 2025
Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen
Reviews & Culture

A raw display of crisis, storytelling and recovery

Reviews of Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere and Frankenstein
01 November 2025
An interlacing of brutal state violence and racism with the absurd and ridiculous
Reviews & Culture

An absurd radical’s fight against state violence

Reviews of One Battle After Another and Kerry James Marshall—The Histories
20 October 2025
Image of Fuerteventura, Canary Islands
Reviews & Culture

Islands: Even in paradise— there’s no escape from alienation

Islands is a new film exploring themes of disconnection and self-destruction
15 September 2025
A woman holds her arm up in victory
Reviews & Culture

Sudan Remember Us—a film for all those fighting injustice

New film out now
07 July 2025
Zafreen Zairizal stars as Zaffan in new film—Tiger Stripes
Reviews & Culture

A film about youth, puberty and period poverty

Review of new Malaysian film
21 May 2024
Silver Haze film review
Reviews & Culture

A film about acceptance, hope, love and revenge

Film depicts working class lives
09 April 2024
Baltimore film IRA Ireland
Reviews & Culture

Rose Dugdale thriller Baltimore draws you into an IRA art robbery

Film is an entertaining thriller
18 March 2024
The Settlers Review: A man points a gun at another man
Reviews & Culture

Film Round-Up: The brutality of settler colonialism laid bare in new film

Plus a review of Poor Things
05 February 2024
A still from the Hollywood film The Hunger Games, The Ballard of songbirds and snakes
Reviews & Culture

Hunger Games prequel tells of death to come

A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes review
28 November 2023
Ken Loach and Paul Laverty
In Depth

‘Hope isn’t just wishful thinking’—an interview with Ken Loach

Director Ken Loach speaks
17 September 2023