Tom Jennings
Radical cultural critic analysing different elements within popular culture.
Sicko, dir. Michael Moore, 2007 Film review – Tom Jennings
Tom Jennings’ review of Michael Moore’s new documentary tragi-comedy on the American health (dis)service
Body Politics by Tom Jennings
The Street, by Jimmy McGovern, BBC 1, November-December 2007. Television review
Review of The Street, series 2 - the latest TV drama from Jimmy McGovern .
That Kitchen Sinking Feeling
Taking Liberties, written and directed by Chris Atkins, 2007. Film review - Tom Jennings
Reviews this documentary lambasting Labour's assault on freedom.
Doing the Rights Thing
Resist: Protest Art, Crescent Arts, Scarborough, 2003. Art review
Review of a group show of new political art.
Blood Curdling
The Tin Roof Blowdown, by James Lee Burke (2007). Book review – Tom Jennings
James Lee Burke’s post-Katrina hardboiled crime novel, The Tin Roof Blowdown, exposes and critiques the responses to the disaster.
CSI: The Big Sleazy by Tom Jennings
The Yes Men, dirs. Dan Ollman, Sarah Price, Chris Smith, 2004. Film review
Review of the documentary about the corporate lampooners
The Maybe Men
David Lynch, Contemporary Cinema and Social Class (2000). Film review – Tom Jennings
Tom Jennings’ essay on David Lynch, recent cinema and film criticism.
Class-ifying Contemporary Cinema by Tom Jennings
Urban riots and their reportage - Tom Jennings, 1992
Tom Jennings’ 1992 essay on current affairs media and their coverage of urban riots
A Hall of Mirrors: Television News and Social Reality by Tom Jennings
Vera Drake, dir. Mike Leigh, 2004. Film review – Tom Jennings
Vera Drake vividly portrays the paradoxes of backstreet abortion without passing judgement.
Dilemmas of a Bleeding Heart
Saul Williams, The Fader Label, 2005. Music review
Review which finds that Saul Williams fails to translate potent political polemics into poetic musical magic...
Slam Dunk Funk Sunk by Clunky Punk Junk
