reviews
Reviews of books, articles, publications, music, film, events and culture.
Volver, dir. Pedro Almodovar, Spain 2006 (English subtitles). Film review
Review of Almodovar’s latest cinematic delirium
Women’s Troubles
V for Vendetta, dir. James McTeigue, 2006. Film review – Tom Jennings.
Tom Jennings reviews the latest botched adaptation of Alan Moore’s graphic novels.
‘V’ Signs and Simulations by Tom Jennings
Nuthin’ But a “G” Thang: The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap, by Eithne Quinn, Columbia University Press, 2005. Book review
Tom Jennings reviews an invicisve history of an important contemporary music genre.
Can’t Knock the Hustle by Tom Jennings
Ms Dynamite, Judgement Days, Polydor, 2005. Music review – Tom Jennings
Tom Jennings judges Ms Dynamite’s second album a mismatch of unremarkable smooth music and remarkably self-indulgent rant.
MsJudged Blandishments by Tom Jennings
Guerilla: the Taking of Patty Hearst, dir. Robert Stone, 2004. Film review – Tom Jennings
Tom Jennings’ review of Robert Stone’s account of the Symbionese Liberation Army.
Barmy Liberation Army by Tom Jennings
Spank the Monkey, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Arts, Gateshead, 2006. Art review
This review finds that The Baltic’s ‘street art’ exhibition bites off much more than it can chew.
High Street Art-Lite by Tom Jennings
Class, Self, Culture, by Beverley Skeggs, Routledge, 2004. Book review
Review that finds this to be an important advance on Pierre Bourdieu’s ‘reflexive sociology’.
Exchanged and Marked
Rose Coloured Spectacles (2006). Film review
Review discussing treatments of politics in mainstream cinema.
Rose Coloured Spectacles by Tom Jennings
The Road to Guantanamo, dirs. Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross, Channel 4, 9th March 2006. Television review
Review of a docudramatic critique of the War on Terror
Likely Lads in the Global Gulag
Paradise Now, dir. Hany Abu-Assad, 2006. Film review
Reviews of controversial Oscar nominee for best foreign film
Clarifying the Muddle East
