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Its writer/director Penny Woolcock wanted Mischief Night to be ‘a very silly film about very serious issues’. Tom Jennings judges it spot on.

Tom Jennings reviews Guillermo del Toro's Pan’s Labyrinth, a fantastical tale set in post-Civil War Spain.

Tom Jennings is disappointed at Favela Rising’s focus on its founder’s personality rather than Brazilian Afro-Reggae’s grass-roots potential.

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

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

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

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

Richard LaGravenese's liberal feel-good film Freedom Writers offers no real solutions to the problems in inner-city schools and neighbourhoods.

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

BBC 2’s ‘The Trap’ documentaries can’t see beyond the false dreams of freedom they expose, argues Tom Jennings

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.