Tom Jennings

Radical cultural critic analysing different elements within popular culture.

A comparison of UK near-future nightmares, including Taking Liberties, Faceless, Children Of Men, The Last Enemy, Exodus and Polly II: A Plan For Revolution in Docklands.

Review of Ang Lee’s Chinese wartime espionage drama, the follow-up to Brokeback Mountain.

Juggling simplistic stereotypes, Channel 4’s Britz illuminates neither the attitudes of UK Muslims nor the motivations of homegrown jihadists, concludes Tom Jennings.

Tom Jennings’ review of Michael Moore’s new documentary tragi-comedy on the American health (dis)service

Review of The Street, series 2 - the latest TV drama from Jimmy McGovern .

Reviews this documentary lambasting Labour's assault on freedom.

Review of a group show of new political art.

James Lee Burke’s post-Katrina hardboiled crime novel, The Tin Roof Blowdown, exposes and critiques the responses to the disaster.

Review of the documentary about the corporate lampooners

Tom Jennings’ essay on David Lynch, recent cinema and film criticism.

Tom Jennings’ 1992 essay on current affairs media and their coverage of urban riots

Vera Drake vividly portrays the paradoxes of backstreet abortion without passing judgement.

Review which finds that Saul Williams fails to translate potent political polemics into poetic musical magic...

Report on an event mixing art and politics.

Follow-up to ‘Same Difference’ examines images of Muslims in photography and television

Tom Jennings applauds the success of A History of Violence in linking the attractions of action cinema to ideologies of control and conquest by force.

Of several summer film releases tackling themes of sexual expression and repression, this review judges A Dirty Shame the daftest, as well as the most radical.

Review of 9 Songs, the ‘dirtiest film ever shown in Britain’.

Review of Almodovar’s latest cinematic delirium