Standard Operating Procedure, directed by Errol Morris (2008) In addition to its revealing ‘worm’s eye view’ of the Abu Ghraib scandal, Tom Jennings sees Standard…
Gone, Baby, Gone: novel by Dennis Lehane (1999); film directed by Ben Affleck (2007) Essay on contemporary US crime fiction comparing Dennis Lehane’s 1999 novel Gone, Baby, Gone with…
Couscous, directed by Abdellatif Kechiche (France 2007) Tom Jennings is captivated by Couscous and its sympathetic but unflinchingly honest portrait of an…
The great class struggle video library project Christiebooks have announced that they are set to close their class-struggle films section on December 17th unless they find an alternative host …
100,000 Bollywood workers on strike Workers in India's film industry have been the latest to join in the recent strike wave spreading the country.
Gone, Baby, Gone, directed by Ben Affleck (2007) Tom Jennings is relieved that Ben Affleck’s first film as director, the thought-provoking Gone, Baby, Gone, avoids the ham sentimentality of much of his acting
Granach, Alexander, 1890-1945 A short biography of Alexander Granach, anarchist and famous actor in German and Hollywood cinema.
Guerra, Armand, 1886-1939 Typesetter, film maker, scenario write, actor and anarchist active within the movement in Spain and internationally.
Craven New World. Film review - Tom Jennings 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.
Projectile debating This post is coming a little later than would be usual, as I just took my first proper (non-anarchist-related) break in what seems like ages after Projectile finished and only just got back from it.
Lust, Caution, directed by Ang Lee, 2007. Film review – Tom Jennings Review of Ang Lee’s Chinese wartime espionage drama, the follow-up to Brokeback Mountain.
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