Tom Jennings
Radical cultural critic analysing different elements within popular culture.
Rebelution - review
Tanya Stephens’ new album Rebelution is subtitled ‘a movement without denial or regret’ – making class-conscious ethics central to reggae’s message. Tom Jennings rides its rhythms.
No Woman Definitely No Cry
The Lives of Others - review
Bogus history, liberal wish-fulfilment, bourgeois triumphalism – no wonder ‘The Lives of Others’ won an Oscar, reckons Tom Jennings
Rehabilitating Big Brother
[film review published in Freedom, Vol. 68, No. 12, June 2007; plus reader’s response and author’s reply]
Red Road - review
Andrea Arnold's Red Road and the surveillance society
Closed Circuit Tunnel Vision
This Is England - review
Tom Jennings' review of Shane Meadows' film based in the early skinhead scene and how it changed when fascists began to recruit within it.
The Archaeology of Aggro
The latest project from the foremost cinematic chronicler of contemporary Britain is, unexpectedly, a period piece depicting the 1983 rites of passage of 12-year-old Shaun (Tommo Turgoose) finding acceptance among skinhead scoundrels convivial enough to include Milky, a Black lad (Andrew Shim), punks, and even New Romantics.
Utopian (Euro) Visions? (2007). Tom Jennings
Tom Jennings' commentary on explicit prejudice and implicit bias in Europe's favourite song contest.
Utopian (Euro) Visions?
MOVE organisation UK tour and documentary - review
Tom Jennings presents the MOVE organisation's documentary, shown at the Star and Shadow cinema in Newcastle during a screening tour of the UK.
Move Something!
