In the Loop, directed by Armando Iannucci Venturing out of Westminster reveals the limits of The Thick Of It’s satire, concludes Tom Jennings
Her whole life ahead, by Paolo Virzi (2008) Story of a 25 year-old woman working in a call-centre, the movie is a grotesque and tragic-comic depiction of Italian precarious workers …
The Class, directed by Laurent Cantet - Tom Jennings Tom Jennings attributes this film’s success to its subversion of educational orthodoxy veiled in high-liberal and Hollywood homilies.
Creating a Movement: The Struggle for Inclusive Education in the UK, 1990–2006, by Stefan Sczcelkun Tom Jennings appreciates this snapshot of a campaign against the segregation of…
Amber Films and UK social-realist cinema Tom Jennings questions the documentary claims of film fictions of lower-class life.
A sideways look at Pixar's films A column from the Christmas 2008 issue of Freedom that looks at the subversion to be found in places as unexpected as Pixar's films.
Korean workers ring in new year with strike for press freedom Media workers have launched a general strike against a new set of state laws which they claim will…
Jar City, directed by Baltasar Kormakur (2007) Jar City juggles the clichés of police procedurals and conventions from Icelandic myth to suggestively modern effect, finds Tom Jennings
Linha De Passe, directed by Walter Salles & Daniela Thomas (Brazil, 2008) Walter Salles returns to Brazilian social realism with “the best football film ever”, says Tom…
Somers Town, directed by Shane Meadows (2008) Tom Jennings appreciates Shane Meadows’ sly cinematic commentary on our changing times in Somers Town’s low-key coming-of-age tale.
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…
