reviews

The ‘G’ Word - review

Submitted by Tom Jennings on Aug 12 2007 14:32

Tom Jennings' review of the graffiti art show at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead.

Babel - review

Tom Jennings reviews Babel, starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett and directed by Alejandro Gonzáles Iñárritu.

The Hive of Liberty - review

Submitted by Tom Jennings on Aug 12 2007 14:13

As a new edition of The Hive of Liberty is published Tom Jennings welcomes renewed interest in 18th century Tyneside radical Thomas Spence.

Hip Hop Is Dead - review

Tom Jennings interprets Nas’ provocation that ‘Hip Hop Is Dead’ in terms of the limited liberal horizons of civil rights.

Shameless - review

Tom Jennings' review of the fourth series of Channel 4's TV show set on a Manchester council estate, Shameless.

Rebelution - review

Submitted by Tom Jennings on Aug 12 2007 13:37

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.

The Lives of Others - review

Submitted by Tom Jennings on Aug 12 2007 13:32
The Lives of Others

Bogus history, liberal wish-fulfilment, bourgeois triumphalism – no wonder ‘The Lives of Others’ won an Oscar, reckons Tom Jennings

Red Road - review

Submitted by Tom Jennings on Aug 12 2007 13:26

Andrea Arnold's Red Road and the surveillance society

This Is England - review

Submitted by Tom Jennings on Aug 12 2007 13:20

Tom Jennings' review of Shane Meadows' film based in the early skinhead scene and how it changed when fascists began to recruit within it.

A review of Joe Jacob's 'Out of the Ghetto' - Al Richardson

Submitted by Red Marriott on May 20 2007 00:04

A review of the late Joe Jacob's excellent autobiography. Growing up in London's Jewish East End, Joe was variously a Communist Party militant, anti-fascist, Trotskyist, and in his later years a member of the Solidarity libertarian socialist group.